Cold Blood

Group: Michelle Connop, Brad Lacey, Lauren Peace and Beth Quittenton

Choice of Trailer:

50% Highlights (Beginning) 50% Scene (Ending)

The beginning of the trailer catches attention of the viewers, making them react to the highlights of the film and become visually interested whereas the second half of the trailer is presented as a scene trailer, showing more of the main characters purpose and also a transformation scene ending on a jump scare. The highlights are to start the trailer off with a narrative and the scene is a slow montage which fastens up when the transformation is shown, ending on a jump scare.

Film Synopsis:

An 18 year old named Michael is a target for bullies and has been his whole life, at college he studies Science and dedicates his life to the study of reptiles and amphibians, also known as Herpetology. Michael studies Herpetology in his lessons and finds out that the creatures DNA includes Autotomy, allowing them to regrow cells and limbs. This drives him to the idea of experimenting with the DNA of the Reptiles and stealing important documents from his classroom allowing him to create a substance to give a human Lizard genetics. The idea of him changing humans into a more developed and intelligent life form leads him into kidnapping his former bullies and using them as victims of his experiments.

The results of these experiments always leave the victim tortured and killed, yet eventually Michael finds the error to his substance and fixes it, leading to the final victim which he chloroforms and kidnaps to a room in which he injects them. This victim is then feeling pain and feels as if he is burning and killing him yet as the substance kicks in, their newly developed Lizard DNA heals them, giving them features of a Lizard and transforming them into a beast. The DNA also changes the brain, making him forget what Michael has done and in fact siding with him.