This document discusses planning and production elements for a horror film targeted at teenagers. It addresses the target audience as 14-16 year olds and lower to middle class people. The purpose is to show teenagers the dangers of strangers and influence to do drugs or commit crimes. The film would be distributed on social media, in schools, and online to spread awareness to teenagers. It discusses camera techniques, mise-en-scene elements like costumes and settings, and sound elements like music and effects that are common in horror films.

1. Unit assignment 3:the
making of a horror film
By Brandon

2. Target audience
• The target audience for this film should be for teenagers between 14-16
the reason why it should be like this is because this film represents
teenagers that get into a lot of trouble with random strangers and end up
doing bad things with them like drugs or murder etc. The secondary
audience would be the parents/guardians and teachers as they can deal
with the situation if it was ever to happen. If the film is to long the target
audience might lose attention to it but if it’s a short film its easy to access.
This film will aim at lower class people to middle class the reason its aimed
at these type of people because they are the most vulnerable with this
situation as they are not as wealthy as other people and probably aren’t
very smart. But this could also be aimed at middle class to upper class
people as they don’t know much about the outside world. Also the upper
class are less likely to buy it while lower class are more likely to buy it or
watch it.

3. Purpose of the products
• The reason they are making this is to show how strangers can
influence teenagers into doing bad things like joining gangs and doing
drugs and even murder. they are doing this so they can show
awareness about strangers as they don’t want teenagers being
exposed to dangers and they are realising it. on Halloween as kids or
teenagers go trick or treating and there are loads of strangers around
at that time. And it shows the consequences that happen. When they
go with the wrong people. This short film will spread awareness to
teenagers rather than adults.

4. distribution and consumption
• The company is giving out information about strangers to teenagers
to show them some awareness and the target audience are listening
and watching so they learn and understand about strangers and what
happens when they mix with the wrong people the film will be
accessible by social media such as twitter Facebook YouTube and the
internet. It could also been shown in schools by teachers and even
parents this could help in many ways as loads of people could
understand the dangers of strangers.

5. Task 2

6. Indiana jones raiders of the lost ark fictional
• This film is a fictional narrative, the purpose of the film is about an
archaeologist who hunts for treasures or discovers things the target
audience for this film can be for young children to adults as anyone
can enjoy the genre of this film is an action and adventure even a bit
of comedy. This is a very straight forward story in this film the main
character is a famous actor known as Harrison ford, who has been in
star wars and so this fil has a inheritance factor in terms of the
audience. The narrative is told to attract people, as the film is in third
person as well as first person. The reason this is an action and
adventure film Is because of the international setting and places they
use and since the film has guns and explosions and the hero or main
character saves the day.

7. Fairy liquid promotional
• This is a promotional advert the purpose of this advert is to promote
the thing they are selling for instance they are promoting fairy liquid
they use a women and a child who aren’t very known. The target
audience is for women as they are the ones who will wash up at
home the reason it is aimed at women because back then the women
were the housewives the age for the target audience should be
around 18 to 30 . The narrative of this advert is the women washing
up with her child, this advert is very straight forward as it has no flash
backs and it’s a simple advert. In this advert they stereotype the
average women back in the 90s and what they should be doing

8. Worlds most powerful predator
• This is a documentary about Siberian tigers the purpose of this
documentary is to show the audience what Siberian tigers can do and
how they hunt down other animals. The target audience of this
documentary should be 16 to 50+ as it could help educational and old
people would watch something like this. The narrative of this is a
straight linear. The person who is talking is sir David Attenborough he
is a very famous tv presenter the genre of tis is a documentary of
animals

9. Task 3

10. Camerawork
• In a horror film it is essential to use camera shots as it makes the film
more interesting to the audience some camera shots that could work
in this are.
• Close up
• Medium shot
• Long shot
• Panning shot
• Extreme wide shot

11. Mise en scene
• A horror film uses mise en scene in many different situations such as
the characters, in horror films they use the stereotypical characters
such as the killer and the hero but they also use colour codes they
use this to show who is who they use black for the killer as black
represents evil and darkness while white represents the good and
honest they also might use places and settings for example a haunted
house at night. The costumes can depend on anything but the killer
should wear a cloak or a hoodie something dark while the other
characters like the victims wear something casual and the props can
be anything like a knife or a phone.

12. Editing
Most horror films use special effects to make the film more dramatic or
scary they use special effects on characters such as the killer they do
this to make him more scary or in a different genre they might use cgi
to show the car flipping or to create mythical characters for that movie.
Fast pace cuts can be used in horror films but not as well as actions or
thriller a good example would be the fast and furious franchise as they
use fast paste cuts when the characters are racing they cut from one
character to the other really quickly they do this to keep the audience
entertained. Transitions can be used in horror films to make it slower
otherwise it would be to fast

13. Sound
There are a lot of soundtracks that are used in horror films these can be
church bells, owls, bats and more it can also be echoed voices as this
helps lift the audiences mood as they are expecting something to
happen the music is one of the most important aspects of a film as it
helps create a specific mood for the scene the effective use will help
create emotion within the audience they use long full suspense's to
help create shock to the audience. And when the brass notes which
change to high pitch notes to make the audience feel tense. The
dialogue in horror films should be a sort of scary voice so they can
strike fear into the audience

14. Camerawork
• the 180 rule is used by directors so that the audience doesn’t get confused when
watching a movie it shows the camera on one side of the room so the audience
know where the camera is
• A establishing shot usually shows where the movie or next scene is going to be it
is usually found at the start of the movie or in the middle even at the end.
• A two shot has two people in a shot they do this so the audience can see the
characters relationship and help the audience understand the relationship
•

15. Final destination editing
• The editing in this film is simple cuts that gradually get faster or
slower an example of this would be when the computer sparked and
the trail of blood caught fire they changed from the computer to the
blood fast to show what will happen. Another effect would be the
explosions with the computer after the water effected it and when
the house exploded after it was burning.

16. Task 4

17. Ideas for task 4
• Cost: props