Trailer Planning - Synopsis

We have now started planning our trailer as a group, looking at all our research and pulling together all our ideas we have come up with a synopsis for a film on which our trailer will be for.

This synopsis consists of:

1. Introduction - Group of girls are going on a holiday to a remote holiday home.


2. Development - Girls start drinking and do a Ouija board.


3. Complication - Girls think Ouija board doesn't work but in fact it has.


4. Climax - Things start to happen, like doors slamming, girls going missing and other supernatural events happen to the girls in and around the house.


5. Resolution - The main character manages to escape.

To write our basic synopsis we used Todorovs narrative theory. The theory is simply this: There are five stages the narrative can progress through:

1. A state of equilibrium (All is as it should be.)

2. A disruption of that order by an event.

3. A recognition that the disorder has occurred.

4. An attempt to repair the damage of the disruption.

5. A return or restoration of a new equilibrium

In these stages, narrative is not seen as a linear structure but a circular one. The narrative is driven by attempts to restore the equilibrium. However, the equilibrium attained at the end of the story is not identical to the initial equilibrium.