EVALUATION - Extened summary of trailer

Shot 1 – Bag packing (present)
Set – Nikki’s Kitchen
In scene – Jen
Each shot about 3 seconds long, fast editing, and soundtrack – tense music.
Shots consist of Jen panicking, searching through cupboards and stuffing food into a rucksack which is on the kitchen table. Food falls on the floor, CU of her hands, low angle of her taking food out of cupboards.

Shot 2 – First meeting (flashback)
Set – Postbox on side of the main road in Ashtead
In scene – Jen and Raf
Editing a bit slower but not much as shots still have to be quick, more relaxed feel to this part of the trailer. Jen walks to postbox about to post her letter but she drops it, Raf picks up the letter, high angle shot of him (at this point he shows no signs of being dangerous), low angle shot of her (to show contrast of how she is later on), He says ‘Hi’ while he hands her the letter.

Shot 3 – Black screen
Last shot cuts to black screen (flash transition) with a caption which says ‘She thought he was a dream come true’. We spent a lot of time deciding whether or not to have just captions, or to have a voice over with captions, or to just have a voice over. We decided to just have captions as then our trailer would appeal to a wider audience.

Shot 4 – Bag packing (present)
Set – Nikki’s Kitchen
In scene – Jen
Editing is very fast, shots extremely short, shots consist of Jen grabbing important papers (passport etc), dropping everything, putting things in rucksack, shaking and looking lost etc. Mid shots of her looking around trying to think of what else she needs, CU of her looking lost, mid shot of her as she runs out, also high angle shots of Jen.

Shot 5 – First Date (flashback)
Set – Nikki’s back garden
In scene – Jen and Raf
Scene is more relaxed but tense soundtrack is still playing so audience knows something is not right. Shots show them messing around, laughing having fun, low angle shots of Raf to show contrast to bag packing scenes. The last shot of this scene slowly fades to black.

Shot 6 – Black screen
Last shot fades to black screen with caption on it that says ‘But even the sweetest of dreams’.

Shot 7 – Bag packing (present)
Set – Nikki’s Kitchen
In scene - Jen
In this scene Jen runs upstairs and there is a shot of her legs through the stairs, it then cuts to her running in and out of rooms and grabbing clothes from draws, she then freezes and there is a CU of her frightened face. Over these shots there is a voice over of Raf’s voice, he says ‘Do you promise to stay with me no matter what?’ as this sentence ends there is the shot of Jen’s frightened face looking straight forward but not directly at the camera.

Shot 8 – Sofa (flashback)
Set – Nikki’s living room
In scene – Jen and Raf
In this scene it shows Jen and Raf on the sofa together, they look very comfortable with each other, Jen turns to Raf and replies to him by saying ‘Forever’, they embrace and the screen fades to black.

Shot 9 – Black screen
The last shot fades to a black screen with the caption on it that says ‘Can form your worst nightmare’

Shot 10 – Knife
Set – Nikki’s kitchen (but will try and make it look like a different kitchen but only using close ups and angling the camera carefully.)
In scene – Raf
In this scene it shows Raf taking a kitchen knife out of a draw, shots are very quick and music becomes louder to show he is dangerous, low angle shots of him.

Shot 11 – Bag Packing
Set – Nikki’s Kitchen
In scene – Jen
This scene shows Jen stuffing clothes into the bag (the clothes she got from upstairs) and it also show’s he grabbing a penknife from a counter in the kitchen, she freezes as she hears a sharp and loud knock on her front door, there is a shot reverse shot of Jen and the door, Camera track towards the door (we are going to attempt to track as we think zoom looks unprofessional), Jen backs away from the door terrified, music grows fainter as her phone rings loudly from the other side of the kitchen, CU of phone with the name ‘Eric’ flashing on it, CU of Jen as she looks from the door to her phone, she is terrified and image fades as she sinks to the floor.

Shot 12 – Black screen
As image fades, sound of phone ringing continues and the soundtrack fades out completely, the word ‘Runaway’ flickers onto the screen along with the release date ‘2012’ the screen then cuts to complete darkness before ending.


All editing is fast so we are able to fit in all the shots we want in this short amount of time and to keep the audience interested, soundtrack is present until the last few seconds of the trailer. The ‘flashbacks’ are all brighter than the bag packing scenes to show happier times, the bag packing scenes are very dull and darkly lit.

Rachel, Lucy and Nikki