2. Subgenre
• The possession sub genre is about people who's
body have been taken over by a spirit. These
spirits control the body of the person and act in an
unruly manor.
• Examples of Possession films: The exorcist, the
last exorcism, the last exorcism of emily rose, the
devil inside, the possession.
3.
4. What did you learn from
researching your sub genre
• The location of possession films are normally set
in a house for example the polergyst and the
exorcism are based around the house of where
the family live in. These isolated locations show
that there is no escape.
• Usually we see the presence of a priest or
someone who can talk to the dead who are called
mediums or clairvoyants. These people try and
talk to the spirit and get rid of them.
5. Conventions of our subgenre
• Priests being present helping the people that have
been possessed.
• Entrapment of people in a house or another locations.
• Use of ouija boards
• family torture as they are affecting everyone that cares
about the person who has been possessed.
• Strange powers like turning your head and fully rotating
it.
6. What will be your character
types or social groups.
• In our opening title sequence it will be symbolic
and we will not be showing the faces of each
character just the hands moving around a ouija
board.
• We have done this as it creates a narrative
enigma as to what the characters are going to be
like.
7. Plot/Storyline
• Ouija board lit up by low key lighting by candles.
• 3 people sitting around the ouija board with their hands on the centre.
• The storey focuses on the 3 people doing the ouija board and flashes forward in time to show
their reactions further on in the movie to create narrative enigmas.
• Character 1 ( liam ) will be shown to kill people and mostly be based around killing others
because he is possessed and based around blood.
• Character 2 ( Jordan) will be focused around a spirit getting inside him and hurting himself
from the outside and being very concerned. This will be shown through body bruises.
• Character 3 ( Vinnie ) will be shown to self harm himself and not being in control of his body
at all.
• The video is non linear so we will constantly be switching back to shots to the ouija board
making it symbolic going backwards and forwards in time.
8. Will you enforce or challenge
conventions
• we will enforce conventions for example the use of
the family home as a setting as it represents that
they are trapped.
• The use of a ouija board
• A misty/smokey room
• the use of a cross in the background to represent
the spirits.
9. We will create an enigma by
• We will create narrative enigmas by not revealing
the identity of each character.
• Not revealing why their are flashback as it will
make the reader think why have people previously
acted like this.
• We will create a narrative enigma by the word that
is spelled out on the ouija board.
10. How will you represent the
characters
• There will be outlines of their heads and we can tell that
there will be three boys around the ouija board.
• As we are hiding their identity they will be represented in a
mysterious way.
• This will create enigmas for the audience as they will want
to find out what they look like and what type of person they
are therefore they will be more hooked for the rest of the
movie.
11. Our first inspirational film is?
• Our first inspirational film is exorcist.
• This is because it was the first and most original
possession film therefore it created most of the
conventions.
• The conventions that are used are the entrapment
of the girl in the bed
• The priest coming and trying to get the spirit out of
the women.
12. Our second inspirational film
is?
• Our second inspirational is ouija.
• This is because they have the use of a ouija board
which is an ancient way of reaching out to spirits
and is used in this film.
• We decided to use this as it is extremely scary
and there are ancient myths of them actually
working and spirits coming alive.
13. Our third inspirational film is?
• Our third inspirational film is The Devil Inside.
• This is because it they challenge the conventions
of the nuns trying to get rid of the spirit but the
spirit possesses the nuns.
• The film is extremely spooky and makes people
feel scared as there is no protection as the
enforcers have already been taken over by the
antagonist.
14. USP
• Our unique selling point is the ouja board as there are many
ancient horror storey based around them and a great amount
of people have tried them in England and can relate to a lot of
young people wanting to try it and a lot of older people looking
back on when they have done it in their youth years.
