Target audience

Target Audience

 

 

Our target audience is student's mixed gender aged 18-25 however more male as they stereotypically like violence and gore.

 

 

 

Synopsis

 

 

Synopsis of our film:

Mother of two children marries a new man and he moves in to their family home. Her two children protest against it and say they don’t like him but the mother wonders why as he is nice to them (in front of her).The children find an object in the step-dads room which they shouldn’t have found and it could destroy him if their mother finds it. He then kills the children because of this. The mother then awakens leaving us to wonder whether it was a dream or reality. The dream then becomes a reality and the mother was distraught and blamed herself for not believing them or taking notice of her dream. She has nightmares about what happened and she slowly starts to go insane and sees her children everywhere, and not just in her nightmares. Finally it becomes too much for her and she kills herself as she believes she will be with her children.

 

 

 

Codes and Coventions

Codes and Conventions

Production Company

Production Company

 

 

Our production company is called 'Spark Productions' We chose this name because its easy to remember and recognisable.

 

 

Ideas for our product company design

 

 

The one we have chosen to use is...

 

 

 



Filming Techniques

Filming Techniques

 

 

 

In our preliminary task we are asked to use the 180 degree rule. What is the 180 degree rule?

 

In film making, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. An imaginary line called the axis connects the characters, and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character is always frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first. The camera passing over the axis is called jumping the line or crossing the line; breaking the 180-degree rule by shooting on all sides is known as shooting in the round.

 

 

Preliminary Task

 Preliminary Task

 

 

Our preliminary tasks involves us doing match on action shot/revise and it includes us demonstrating the 180 degree rule. Its an exercise that involved opening a door, walking through and across the room to sit on a table opposite the other character and exchanging dialog with each other.

 

Horror questionnaire results

Analysing Friday 13ths Opening scene

 

 

 

Case Study of blair witch project

Case Study of The Blair Witch Project

 

 

 

The Blair Witch Project is a low $22,500 budget film, made by student filmmakers. However it became an  international box office hit in 1999 and made $248,639,099. Blair Witch was a landmark in movie marketing and distribution because it was the first time that any movie had successfully leveraged the Internet as a marketing platform to reach a wide audience. It the most successful independent film of all time.

 

It was an American Horror film directed and edited by  Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. It was produced by the Haxan Films production company. With the cast of Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard.

 

It is a psychological horror. The target Audience would be Students age 18-25.

 

Summary of the film, In 1994 3 students film makers disappeared in the woods while shooting a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. We are told they are never seen or heard from again. They travel to the urkittsville, Maryland, formerly Blair and ask locals about it. They are told The locals tell them of Rustin Parr, a hermit who kidnapped seven children in the 1940s and brought them to his house in the woods where he tortured and murdered them.

They explore the woods to look for evidence although they are warned that the woods are haunted and went missing and when she returned she talked about 'The girl that never touched the ground.'

When they are in the woods they get lost lose there map, loads of mysterious things happen. Josh disappears, they hear him screaming but cannot find him. What happens to them is left a mystery but they never return.

 

Opening Sequence

Opening sequences

 

 

The purpose of an opening sequences is to induce the audience to the main character's of the film there age/gender to form a relationship with the character's. Establish the genre of the film and the setting. Here there a variety of different opening sequences that can inspire me and help me produce my own ideas for an opening sequence.

 

 

Dawn of the dead.

 

 

What I like about this clip is the music juxtaposing against what's going on in the opening sequence the non diegetic  music is upbeat and very cheery in contrast to the zombies and what scary things are going on, its  the opposite of music to what you would expect for a horror movie trailer. Therefore this could suggest contrasts during the film.. The credits and writing are red, connoting danger, and they drip away like blood. There is also clips of real footage, making it all the more scary because it seems realistic. There is a lot of the phase 'don't know' and flashing quick scenes, it is portraying the mystery of the film so it captures the audiences attention and we want to keep on watching more. I could use these two techniques in my own opening sequence.

The shinning

 

 

This opening clip is interesting because the genre is established by the non diegetic scary/eyrie music, not by what is going on. The camera is flowing the car on a journey to its mysterious destination, like the car is being watched or followed. This will grip the attention of the audience. I could use these ideas in my own opening sequence.

 

The woman in black

 

 

The Haunting

 

 

 

 

 

Sub genres of horror

 
Gore horror films, an example would be 'Saw'. Gore horror films will include killing a lot of blood and violence

Zombie Horror films, An  example would be 'Walking dead.' Zombie horror films would include zombies amongst humans on earth.

Supernatural/ghost horror films. An example of a supernatural film would be 'Paranormal activity.' This will involve maybe hauntings or supernatural beings in the natural world.

Serial killer horror films. An example would be 'Scream'. This is humans killing other humans

Comedy horror films. Such as 'Shaun of the dead'. Although it will have scary parts in it will have comedy parts too, to make you laugh but also scare you.

Monster horror film. Such as 'Clover field' Involving some sort of a monster.

 

Possession horror films. An example would be 'The devil inside.' This would include a human getting possessed by a supernatural evil sprit, such as the devil, it could include an exorcism.

 
Gothic horror films. Such as 'Sweeny Todd' This will mean a gothic theme to the film, it will be quite dark.

Introduction to horror 

 

Horror is a intense feeling of fear, shock or disgust.

 

 

 

 

 Horror is a film genre, created to get an negative emotional reaction on the audience by playing on there fears. In Horror films they will deal with the audiences nightmares, Hidden fears, and terror of the unknown. They will involve a force of evil or bringing the supernatural into the natural world.
What is interesting about horror is they use innocents of children and childhood and revise it into something evil such as child killers or children ghosts, something you wouldn't normally expect.

Brief

Brief

There are two tasks we will be assessed on, these are:

1.   Preliminary exercise: This is an exercise in continuity. You must film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character. The characters must exchange a couple of lines of dialog.

The task should demonstrate,

a)   match on action

b)   shot/reverse shot

c)   180-degree rule

 

2.   Main task: create the titles and opening of a new fiction  film to last two minutes.