Film Trailer Ideas and Concepts

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Concept

In the trailer of Static Reality we touch on the ideas of schizophrenia, human conscience, drug use and the ‘groundhog day’ esque style of film where the days repeat themselves from our main character’s point of view.

Essentially it follows the life of a single man, Connor Wright who normally lives a ‘regular’ life, where he goes to work at the accounting office of Willow Pharmaceuticals, but is also a drug addict. He and his friend Ronnie are obsessed with drugs, their lives are going nowhere and this how they prefer to spend their time. At the beginning of the trailer, Connor awakes in a derelict building next to a dead body. A static radio noise plays in the background.  Mysteriously the corpse doesn’t faze him and he knows he has to get rid of the body but is unsure why, as if he’s in fear that if he doesn’t do it bad things will happen. Our character suffers from blackouts, which are sequentially followed by these instances where he awakes in the room. Basically he believes he has a different life purpose on these different days.  However, the character’s memory is erased after these days and he has no knowledge of either day.  Until one day, his boss at work catches on to his mysterious absences; our character looks bewildered at the boss insistent that he never misses a day at work. Following this, he wakes up next to his boss who is dead. The character thinks this is just another body to dispose of, unbeknown to the fact it’s his boss. Waking up on the next day he goes to work to discover his boss is missing, yet there is police involved. He overhears the police enquiring a co-worker, who replies that he hasn’t be seen for 2 weeks. During this scene, the camera focuses on our characters face that increasingly looks confused as to what might have happened. He walks over to his desk to find the radio playing the same static noise. The trailer cuts to several clips of other scenes in the film, an action scene, a clip of our character running etc. while ‘Feel Good Hit of the summer’ by Queens of the Stone Age plays.