Assessment 7 - Animatic

Assessment 6 - Organisation of actors/props/costumes

Organisation of Actors:
- Nicolle Whitaker
- Abigail Reay

Locations:
- Burn Valley
- My garage

Costumes:
- White T-shirt covered in blood
- Gloves

Props:
- Chair
- Blood
- Bandages
- Saw

- Newspaper cuttings

Assessment 5 - Pitch Ideas

  My idea for my opening sequence is based on a kidnap over jealousy. The kidnapper will wear gloves to hide their identity. We are going to film in a garage, or type of shed. This is where most of the filming will take place as we are using a lot of close ups. The close ups will be of tools with blood on them, eyes for facial expressions and show how the victim is feeling.  We will use cut away shots from the kidnap scene to the scene the garage to give the audience an idea of what is going on, but not give it away totally. The beginning scene, and the flash backs will be filmed in a dark wood or forest, this will be the place were the girl is being kidnapped, the first scene in the forest will be filmed as if we can see the victims point of view and we are going to use a hand held camera effect.

The props we will need will be things like tools, such as knives and saws etc.  We will also need some fake blood to use on the props to look as if they have been used to torture the victim. 

The kidnapper will wear quite plain, old clothes so if any fake blood gets onto them it wont matter as much. The kidnapper will wear gloves to try and conceal the identity and add mystery to it.

We will use low-key lighting to keep to the conventions of a horror film and make it look dark and scary, this will also add mystery to it.  

We will use incidental sound to create tension within the scene and we will use lots of heavy breathing to also increase the tension. Especially in the flashback scenes.To show the title of the film we will splatter blood onto a surface as if  it is coming from the victim and then the title will appear over it when we edit the sequence.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Assessment 4 - Word Cloud

Assessment 3 - Research into Sub-Genres

History time-line Of Horror

1951: A new cycle of horror movies begins. The Thing ‘from another world’ terrorises an arctic research base. The BBFC introduces it’s new ‘X’ certificate, now over eighteens only can watch films in this new category which replaces the old ‘H’.

1952: Cinema start to fear it is losing it’s audiences to television a new gimmick is born, it is the 3D movie. The first 3D film is a cheap spectacle which makes a fortune at the box office.

1960: Finally with a larger budget to work with and freed from the constraints of his back to back movies Roger Corman begins a cycle of horror films based upon the works of Edgar Allen Poe, many starring Vincent Price and all borrowing liberally from Hammer’s style of filmmaking. The first in the cycle is House of Usher.

1969: Boris Karloff dies aged 82 and with him the last link to the Golden Age of Horror is lost.

1972: Cushing and Lee star in Hammers Dracula AD 1972. In an attempt to appeal to younger audiences the setting is updated, teenagers become the main characters and the film is filled with psychedelic rock music. The film is cut and banned in some countries notably in the UK where the BBFC refuses it a certificate.

1986: Cronenberg releases his most commercially successful film yet, a remake of the nineteen fifties movie The Fly.

1987: As horror films become increasingly comedic Sam Raimi releases a slapstick remake of his own earlier film under the title Evil Dead 2. It seems that the horror boom of the seventies and eighties is largely over and that audiences are once again looking elsewhere for their entertainment.

1996: Wes Craven launches his new slasher franchise with Scream. The film has it’s tongue partly in it’s cheek with many knowing references to horror movie history and laughs mixed in with the scares.

1997: Producers rush out a film of I know What You Did Last Summer to cash in on the success of Scream. This slasher movie will spawn two less successful sequels.

1999: James Fermann leaves his post as head of the BBFC. There will now be a softening of stance towards explicit content and over the next few years many ’video nasties’ will be certified and finally released in the UK. After a decade bereft of new ideas in the genre a low budget movie shot on a handheld camera becomes a worldwide phenomenon.

2000: The Exorcist (1973) is given a cinema rerelease.

2004: Saw an ultraviolent movie franchise is launched it is to be the first in a series rumoured to be stretching to six films and a videogame. It also sees the advent of a new sub-genre of extremely violent splatter movies called by some critics ‘torture porn’.

2006: The Hills Have Eyes is remade.

2007: Halloween becomes the latest 1970’s horror movie to get the update treatment.

Cross Genre:
Of course is you can establish genre lines, then horror crosses them. When genres -- horror, fantasy, science, and speculative fiction

Psychological Horror:

Based on the disturbed human psyche. Since the reader's perception is sometimes altered by exposure to an insane viewpoint, psychological horror can also deal with ambiguous reality and seem to be supernatural.

Quiet (or Soft) Horror:
Subtle, never visceral or too shocking, with atmosphere and mood providing the miasma of fear rather than graphic description. The opposite of "Extreme."

Supernatural:
The rules of the normal world don't apply; ghosts, demons, vampires, werewolves, the occult etc. Within this sub genre is an ever-growing list of sub-sub-genres -- most of which deal with vampires.

Surreal:
Not really sub-generic, it can be used just to mean unreal; strange or bizarre. Or it can be used to tie a style to the surrealist movement in art and literature that attempted to express the subconscious and move beyond accepted conventions of reality by representing the irrational imagery of dreams and bizarre juxtapositions.

Suspense (or Dark Suspense) and Thriller:
No supernatural elements, but a constant sense of threat coming from an outside menace. Add a strong investigative angle and becomes mystery more than horror. Add action and adventure to suspense and you come up with "thriller" -- except you can have "supernatural thrillers."

Source - http://www.fictionfactor.com/articles/hsubgenres.html

Assessment 3 – Target Audience Research

I have researched specific websites focusing on the BBFC for my target audience of the ages 15 and 18. I have noticed that certain aspects affect whether a film is determined as a 15 rating and an 18. The decisions for the ratings are split into sub- sections of Discrimination, Drugs, Horror, Imitable Behaviour, Language, Nudity, Sex, Theme and Violence.
If the rating is a fifteen its only suitable for people who are fifteen years and over. No-one younger than fifteen may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema, buy or rent it. As a whole it must not endorse discriminatory language or behaviour. Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse. Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised. Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied and in the end result cause physical and mental harm to the audience. There may be frequent use of strong language but it would be inappropriate and unacceptable if said in an aggressive way or repeated on numerous occasions. Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail and there may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour. No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is appropriate for 15 year olds. Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury.

At ‘18’ the BBFC’s guideline concerns will not normally override the principle that adults should be free to choose their own entertainment. The reasons behind this are the material is in breach of the criminal law or has been created through the commission of a criminal offence. Material appears to risk harm to individuals or, through their behaviour, to society. There are more explicit images of sexual activity which cannot be justified by context.

Assessment 2 – Opening Sequence Titles

Film: Final Destination 2

Opening Sequence Titles

New Line Cinema
A Zide Perry production
Film Title - Final Destination 2
Principal Actors – Ali Carter, Michael Landes & J.Cook
Casting By – John Papsidera
Music By – Shirley Walker
Costume Designer – Jori Woodman
Editor – Eric Sears
Production Designer – Michael Bolton
Director Of Photography – Gary Capo
Co- Producer – Justis Greene
Executive Producers – Toby Emmerich, Richard Brener, Matt Moore, Jeffrey Reddick.
Produced By – Warren Zide And Craig Perry
Screeplay By – J.Mackye Gruber & Eric Bress
Story By – Jeffery Reddick.
Directed By – David R. Ellis