Trailer...

For something for school I need to make a trailer for a film. The film itself is allowed to be completely original, but the brief requires that it be something relevant to teenagers.
I had the idea of, particularly considering the paranoia of the 21st Century and the somewhat demonized view of teenagers in media, to do a "Clockwork Orange" style rehabilitation idea. I had the idea of perhaps doing the trailer as montage of images of showing a character in solitude, cutting between that and like, rapid fire images of things from news and things like that.

Just wondering what people think of the idea.
 
Any idea where I could get news footage I could make that I could then make a fast montage to cut together and then jump between that and a character, like, on his own in a hall, I'd try to convey the idea that he's seeing these things and they're brainwashing him. Although I'm not sure how I'd do that.
And I'm pretty much set on doing it with one actor.
 
convey the idea that he's seeing these things and they're brainwashing him. Although I'm not sure how I'd do that.

Stick actor in a chair, with a metal collander on his/her head. Attach some dodgy-looking wires, and maybe a chin-strap. Perfect! :yes:

(also makes great electric-chair accessory)

You can get plenty of older news & newsreel footage from Archive.org
 
Unfortunately, such an idea doesn't fit the subjects syllabus.
So the thing the syllabus allows that most appeals to me and is something I'd perhaps like to make a film of the genre of in the future is slashers.

I wouldn't go for a satire or parody (A la 'Scream' or 'Scary Movie'). I'd wanna go down the line of the old golden age classics ('Halloween' springs to mind, with it being my favorite slasher film and also one of my favorite English language horrors)
I'd quite like to try the trailer (only needs to be a trailer for the syllabus) with like, one or two locations and only a couple of actors (most likely a girl and a killer) cutting between the killer sitting in solitude to the silent phone call thing and also to a POV stalking scene.
Just need a name for it.

What do people think?
 
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