The document provides information on 5 horror films: 1) Hard Candy (2005) - About a 14-year-old girl who drugs and psychologically tortures a photographer who she met online and suspects of being a pedophile. 2) Black Swan (2010) - Follows a ballerina competing for a lead role in Swan Lake who finds her life mirroring her character as she loses grip on reality. 3) Funny Games (2007) - Two young men take a family hostage in their vacation home and psychologically torment them for their own amusement. 4) Scream (1996) - A mysterious killer in a Halloween costume begins murdering teenagers in a

1. 1st Film Hard Candy
• Film – Hard Candy
• Director - David Slade
• Distributing Company – Lionsgate
• When released – January 21, 2005
• Plot - Hayley, a 14 year-old girl, meets
Jeff, a photographer in his thirties, on
the Internet. After a few weeks of
conversation, they decide to have a
"photo shoot." At Jeff's house, they
begin drinking screwdrivers, but Hayley
drugs Jeff's and he passes out. When he
wakes up, he is tied to a chair. Hayley,
having completely abandoned her
flirtatious persona, psychologically
tortures Jeff for his crimes.

2. Still shots of the film – Hard Candy

3. Scenes that are inspiring
I like the use of
Close up shot
looking at chat
conversation.
Fear in the
characters face
we want to
express and show
in our sequence

4. 2nd Film Black Swan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaI1XOB-bs
• Film – Black Swan
• Director - Darren Aronofsky
• Distributing Company - Fox Searchlight Pictures
• When released – September 1st 2010
• Plot - Nina, a ballerina in a New York City ballet
company whose life, like all those in her profession,
is completely consumed with dance. She lives with
her retired ballerina mother Erica who supports her
daughter's professional ambition. When artistic
director Thomas Leroy decides to replace ballerina
Beth for the opening production of their new
season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina
has competition, a new dancer, Lily, who impresses
Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who
can play both the White Swan with innocence and
grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile
and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role
perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black
Swan. As the two young dancers expand their
rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get
more in touch with her dark side with a recklessness
that threatens to destroy her.

5. Still shots of the film

6. Scenes that are inspiring
I want to use a few
close ups shots in our
sequence to show fear.
Inspired by mid shots like
this to show the character
body movement.

7. 3rd Film Funny Games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec-70W_K77U
• Film – Funny Games
• Director - Michael Haneke
• Distributing Company – Warner
Independent Pictures
• When released – October 20th 2007
• Plot - A family settles into its
vacation home, which happens to be
the next stop for a pair of young,
articulate, white-gloved serial killers on
an excursion through the
neighbourhood.
In this exploration of our violent society and
how depictions of violence reflect and
shape our culture, a middle-class family
submits both physically and mentally to
the torture, violence, and death foisted
upon them by two young, unexpected,
white-gloved visitors at their vacation
retreat near a lake

8. Still shots of the film

9. Inspired Screenshots
I like this shot taken from
a angle to show the whole
I was inspired by the characters body
use of the white glove
Another expressive
close up shot

10. • Film – Scream
4th Film Scream
• Director - Wes Craven
• Distributing Company – Woods Entertainment
• When released – December 20, 1996
• Plot – A teenage girl and her boyfriend are brutally
slaughtered by a mysterious killer in a Halloween
costume. Another girl, Sydney, is nearly killed, and a
reporter, Gail suspects that it was the one
responsible for the rape and murder of Sydney's
mother a year earlier. Sydney's boyfriend, Billy
becomes the prime suspect. When released,
Sydney and all of her friends go to a party, at
Randy's house, where they drink and watch scary
movies. They are guarded from the killer by Gail,
and the police officer Dewey. All the teens who
aren't drunk go off to see the body of their
principal, who was killed by the same murderer,
leaving 5 people at the party. After a sexual
encounter with Billy, Billy is stabbed by the killer.
Sydney finds Dewey with a knife in his back, and
Gail gets lost in the forest. Billy turns up alive, but
Sydney realises that there are two murderers. Her
best friend's boyfriend, Stuart, and Billy are the
killers. Billy shoots Randy Billy kills Stuart, and Gail
comes in with a gun, and kills Billy. Randy turns up
alive. Dewey turns out to be alive, and the only
teens alive are Sydney and Randy.

11. Still shots of the film

12. Inspired Screenshots
Door scene
On the phone scene.
Scene that I want to
use in the sequence.

13. 5th Film – I Still Know What You
Did Last Summer
• Film – I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
• Director - Danny Cannon
• Distributing Company – Columbia Pictures
• When released – November 13, 1998
• Plot - Two years after the horrible incident, Julie is
back in college and is worse than ever having
dreams about the killer. She gets comfort from a
new friend named Will. Julie's other friend Karla
tries to hook the two of them up and when she
wins a trip to the Bahamas, she knows that it is
perfect. But Ray is still in the picture and Julie only
goes as friends. Karla, her boyfriend Tyrell, Julie,
and Will take flight right before Ray encounters
the fisherman again. He tries to tell Julie not to
leave but it is too late. Now in the Bahamas Julie
is starting to lighten up and have fun. Then
suddenly things time to save Julie again from the
fisherman? tart going terribly wrong when a storm
hits the Island and people start to disappear. Ray
takes a boat to the Island to warn Julie but will he
make it on.

14. Still shots of the film/Inspired
Characterisation of the character
showing the wounds .
Two shot
Close up