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Kate and Tilda created a horror film trailer set in Kate's isolated rural house. They drew inspiration from films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and researched production companies to inform their style. Kate's basement provided ideal lighting conditions for scary scenes. They utilized conventions like varied camera shots and montage editing to build tension. The trailer represents rural areas as lonely and the old house as hinting at past evil, with the goal of attracting a young adult audience interested in the horror genre.
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Kate and Tilda created a horror film trailer set in Kate's rural house. They drew inspiration from films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Haunting in Connecticut. Researching production companies and existing horror trailers helped them determine conventions like quick cuts, changes in mood, and sound effects to build tension. Kate's basement provided ideal lighting conditions for scary scenes. Their trailer employed disorienting strobe lighting, unsettling camera angles, and a fast editing pace to create an eerie atmosphere and build to a dramatic climax.
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Kate and Tilda plan to make a horror film set in Kate's isolated rural house, drawing inspiration from films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Haunting in Connecticut. Kate's basement provides the ideal setting for scary scenes due to its original decor and lack of windows. Research into horror film production companies and trailers informed their style and conventions like narration, editing techniques, and building tension. The basement allows them to control lighting and atmosphere without needing darkness. Rural isolation, camera techniques, lighting, and editing are employed to distort viewers and create an eerie atmosphere for their horror film trailer.
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Kate and Tilda created a horror film trailer set in Kate's rural house. They drew inspiration from films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Haunting in Connecticut. Researching production companies and existing horror trailers helped them determine conventions like quick cuts, changes in mood, and sound effects to build tension. Kate's basement provided ideal lighting conditions for scary scenes. Their trailer employed disorienting strobe lighting, unsettling camera angles, and a fast editing pace to create an eerie atmosphere and build to a dramatic climax.
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Filming diary
The document discusses the filming of a trailer for a psychological horror film. It summarizes the location, props, lighting, sound, camera, and continuity elements that were considered to ensure the trailer followed genre conventions. The historic theatre provided a run-down setting like those often seen in psychological horrors. Props like a dagger and possessed box advanced the plot and themes in a way typical of the genre. Dark and dim lighting, scary music, and screams were used to create suspense and indicate the horror genre.
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The document discusses how the media product, a horror film opening titled "Scarlett", uses and challenges conventions of the horror genre. It analyzed the film Chucky to identify conventions like an isolated setting, stormy weather, dark lighting, vulnerable victims. The opening aims to conform to these while challenging others like portraying females as weak. It describes how the location, sounds, narrative, lighting, characters, weather, and themes in "Scarlett" both follow and adapt horror film norms established by movies like Chucky, Blair Witch Project, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Film trailer analysis
This document analyzes and summarizes three film trailers from different genres: horror, sci-fi/horror, and comedy. For the horror trailer "The Woman in Black," it notes the use of dark imagery, scary music, and supernatural elements that are typical of the genre. The sci-fi/horror trailer for "Alien" combines elements of both genres by setting it in space but also creating isolation and tension. Finally, the comedy trailer for "Ted" uses upbeat music, comical scenes and conversations, and light atmosphere rather than the darkness of horror trailers.
Treatmant for 'hidden oak'
The document outlines plans for a short thriller film opening called "Hidden Oak." It will be approximately two minutes long and filmed primarily at a house isolated in the forest. Common thriller conventions like weapons, blood, spooky music, low-key lighting, and diegetic sounds will be used. The film was influenced by techniques from "The Shining" and "Vertigo" including establishing shots, lighting contrasts, and symbolic costuming. Possible limitations include time constraints and safety in the forest. The film will explore themes of oppression, obsession, and isolation through the story of a girl trapped by an unseen captor who she attempts to escape.
Evaluation 1 11111
The document discusses how the media product, a horror film opening titled "Scarlett", uses and challenges conventions of the horror genre. It analyzed the film Chucky to identify conventions like an isolated setting, stormy weather, dark lighting, vulnerable victims. The film aims to conform to these conventions but also challenges some, like having strong female protagonists rather than weak victims. It discusses how elements like the park location, sound design, narrative structure, lighting, characters, and weather were crafted to both follow and tweak common horror film conventions.
Treatment for ‘tamam shud’ 07
The document proposes an opening film sequence based on the unsolved case of the "Tamam Shud" man found dead on a beach. The sequence will feature close-up shots of the man's ambiguously dressed body and objects on the isolated beach, creating mystery. Filming at a black sand beach in New Zealand will set a moody, overcast tone influenced by films like "The Piano" and "Shutter Island." Through low-key lighting, unusual camera angles, and eerie music, the sequence aims to build suspense around the unknown origins and meaning of the body and note found reading "Tamam Shud."
Evaluation task 1
The document analyzes the genre conventions used in the author's thriller opening sequence and compares it to 4 other films. It discusses elements like editing, sound, camerawork, setting, costumes, makeup, props, lighting, and titles. The author's sequence uses conventions of the thriller genre like suspenseful music, short shot durations, point-of-view shots, and a cold color scheme. It also challenges some conventions by having the apocalyptic setting be in rural woods rather than an abandoned city.
Shutter island
The film Shutter Island follows U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels who is investigating the disappearance of a murderer from a hospital for the criminally insane located on a remote island. Teddy realizes the investigation will force him to confront his own fears. The opening sequence uses dark lighting and ominous music to set an unsettling tone. Camera shots like long takes and close-ups maintain audience attention while hiding character identities. The prison-like buildings and cells establish the film's genre as a psychological thriller and hint that secrets lurk within the walls of the asylum.
Shutter island
The film Shutter Island follows U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels who is investigating the disappearance of a woman from a hospital for the criminally insane located on a remote island. Teddy realizes the investigation will force him to confront his own fears. The opening sequence uses dark lighting and ominous music to set an unsettling tone. Long shots establish the isolated island setting and prison-like hospital. Mystery is built through withholding the identities of characters and keeping the plot ambiguous. These elements effectively introduce the psychological thriller genre and intrigue audiences to continue watching.
Shutter island
The film Shutter Island follows U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels who is investigating the disappearance of a woman from a hospital for the criminally insane located on a remote island. Teddy realizes the investigation will force him to confront his own fears. The opening sequence uses dark lighting and ominous music to set an unsettling tone. Long shots establish the isolated island setting and prison-like hospital. Mystery is built through withholding the identities of characters and keeping the plot ambiguous. These elements effectively introduce the psychological thriller genre and intrigue audiences to continue watching.
Similar to Our Horror Film (20)
Evaluation question 1- In what ways does your media use, develop or challenge...
Evaluation question 1- In what ways does your media use, develop or challenge...
Our Horror Film
- 1. Kate and Tilda Our Horror Film
- 2. Kate’s house would be the perfect setting for a horror due to it’s period features and isolated location We both like the horror/thriller genre and already had basic knowledge of conventions We focused on the following films for ideas Texas Chainsaw Massacre Haunting in Connecticut Tormented Where did our ideas/inspiration come from?
- 3. Watched existing horror trailers Research into production/distribution companies of horror films gave us ideas of what style we were aiming for. Fox Searchlight specializes in independent, British films and horror E.g.The Hills Have Eyes, 127 Hours, 28 Days Later. Research into similar texts...
- 4. Identified differences between teaser trailers and movie trailer Listed conventions of horror trailers: narration, indents, mix between continuity and montage editing, build up of tension/change in mood, sound effects
- 5. Kate’s basement enabled us to have control over lighting and mis en scene because it’s original decor hasn’t been altered. There are few windows; this made it a perfect location for the scarier scenes because we didn’t have to wait for it to get dark to achieve the same eerie effect. Our films set in a rural environment emphasised by shots of fields and streams. This creates isolation which is something that’s featured in many horror films. Locations, mis en scene...
- 6. We used a strobe for many scenes because it added a sense of disorientation and gives a stormy atmosphere. Clips have a harsh, artificial blue tinge, rather than soft yellow light. Candles were used as part of the mis-en-scene but the shadows created gave an eerie effect. Most of our sound will be added in post-filming (non-diegetic) to enhance mood and create atmosphere. Sound, lighting...
- 7. We tried to vary the angles and shots to distort the audiences point of view and create different effects. In horror trailers the shots are rarely static; action or drama is enhanced by camera movement. Using this convention, we made our shots more diverse by varying the movements. This added to the disoriented atmosphere. Camera shots, movement, angles...
- 8. We’ve used montage editing – common in horror trailers – and quick shots to speed up the pace and enhance dramatic scenes. The fades at the beginning of the film add to the creepy atmosphere and also signify a shift in time. Frequent cuts towards the end build tension and aid the climax of the whole trailer. Editing...
- 9. Rural area: countryside is represented as lonely and isolated. A large, old mansion is associated with paranormal/eerie activity, foreshadowing the events that follow. The aged appearance of the buildings in horror film hint at an evil past. Teenage girls: lack of intuition, perceived as ‘air heads’, focal point for ‘male’ audience, Representation
- 10. Young adults Male – attracted by female characters Female – identify with the female characters People interested in horror films Audience