The Fly, 1986
The concept in this film is of a transporter, and when the inventor uses himself as a guinea-pig to test his machine, his genes are combined with those of a fly which entered the transporter just as it began to operate. The effects used in the teaser trailer are out of our group's reach financially and technologically, (e.g. explosions, smashing glass, zapping computer graphics for the title) but we can cheaply achieve other effects as shown here or here. Were we to use these amateur special effects, we wouldn't be restricted by genre. We could make a laboratory background through greenscreen for medical sci-fi, use colour passing to make our film conform to the style of films like Sin City for a noir / comic book / thriller, and reversing film or using blood pouches if we wanted to shoot a punch or other dangerous stunt for action, science fiction or horror. So producing a trailer for a plot similair to the fly would not be impossible, but we would have to be economical with our effects and use them sparingly.
This webpage also details how the traditionally high-budget sci-fi genre can be achieved for next to no money.
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