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This document outlines a student's plans for creating a horror film trailer. It discusses the genre of horror and elements commonly found in horror films. Two example films are summarized: Insidious and Scream. Two potential plot ideas are presented involving stalking and a Halloween party. Ideas are provided for the soundtrack, locations, cinematography, editing, poster, and magazine. Next steps are outlined which involve finding actors, locations, defining roles, researching props and trailers, and considering available software and equipment.
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How research impacted our ideas
Lucas Baxter is the protagonist hero in the horror film "Crossed Out". The film uses techniques common to the genre like hand-held cameras and an iconic weapon (axe). It follows a narrative structure where a haunting event from the killer's past returns to kill again, targeting the children of those who bullied the killer in the past. The film fits Todorov's theory of equilibrium being disrupted by a return of the repressed from the killer's past. Research found the primary horror film audience is youth aged 15-25 who prefer films with jump scares over cheap special effects.
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This document provides details on the proposed title sequence for a psychological horror film called "The Pitch". The sequence draws inspiration from films like Durham County, American Horror Story Hotel, and Insidious. It will feature disturbing imagery, eerie sounds, and replicated scenes showing blood and a young child. The main character is a troubled young woman named Scarlet. The sequence aims to attract audiences aged 15-25 through social media promotion. It will utilize props, costumes, makeup, and locations to set the unsettling tone. A variety of camera shots and sounds will be used to further immerse viewers in the dark fairy tale-inspired world of the film.
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This document summarizes responses from a paper questionnaire about horror/thriller genre preferences and poster/trailer designs. Key points include:
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Conventions Of Horror
The document discusses various conventions and elements of different horror genres. It describes common settings, iconography, narrative structures, character types, and sounds used in horror films. It also provides examples and descriptions of different subgenres, including supernatural, psychological, dark fantasy, science fiction, satanic/religious, and splatterpunk/slasher films. Key elements that create fear and tension are explored across the different genres.
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The document summarizes several horror movies and how they meet conventions of the genre:
1) "The Possession of Joel Delany" involves a man seemingly possessed by a voodoo spirit and features victims, weapons, and violence.
2) "The Shout" includes screams that can kill, mystical powers, weapons, and an intense musical score creating a dark atmosphere.
3) "Death Bed: The Bed That Eats" features a demonic bed that seduces and eats young women, showing victims and a supernatural monster.
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The document provides feedback on a presentation about horror movie subgenres created by Betsi Burch. The feedback includes:
- Praise for Betsi's work and knowledge demonstrated.
- Suggestions were made to add images, respond to comments, include more examples and explanations.
- Key terminology should always be used.
General feedback recommends reorganizing slides now that more content has been added and improving the overall appearance. Adding images between existing slides is suggested to make it more effective.
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The purpose of the horror genre is to elicit fear, panic, and alarm in viewers by putting them on the edge of their seats wondering what will happen next. Sound is particularly effective at creating a sense of fear through sharp, high-pitched noises. Horror films often center around some change in circumstances that sets the story in motion, such as a person moving to a new neighborhood. The Purge is used as an example of how one event, such as all laws being suspended for 12 hours, can lead to generic horror conventions like death and violence. Viewers enjoy horror films because they like seeing the protagonist succeed against tough odds while experiencing fear and panic along with the characters. Descent shows a group endangered by blind,
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Six friends gather at an abandoned house for a party, where they plan to play spin the bottle. However, one by one the friends start dying, and the others must try to survive and discover who is killing them. The film subverts stereotypes by having a brave female protagonist named Faye, while also including stereotypical characters like Rachel, the dumb blonde. The identity of the killer is kept secret until the shocking finale.
Media assignment 26
1. The document discusses a media presentation for a supernatural horror film idea.
2. The idea is about a teenage boy who hears strange noises in his empty house one night. He investigates and finds objects moving on their own. When he checks outside, he discovers the front door open and blood leading to a figure eating someone.
3. The presentation discusses conventions of the supernatural horror subgenre that the idea incorporates, such as haunted locations, possessions, and graphic deaths. It aims to intrigue audiences and include varied camera shots while remaining understandable.
Research: Horror Genre
This document discusses the horror genre and the 1978 film Halloween. It defines horror films as depicting viewers' worst fears and the unknown. Halloween follows Michael Myers who returns to his hometown to stalk and kill people on Halloween. The film helped establish conventions for the genre such as using first-person perspectives and female heroes. It also examines posters for the film and discusses target audiences for horror, which appeals to a wide range including women who enjoy strong female characters.
Stael's preproduction powerpoint
This document contains Staely's presentation about their movie idea titled "Beneath The Core". The movie idea is about a psychopathic woman who is a police officer by day and a serial killer by night, targeting male criminals. Her motivation stems from witnessing her father physically abuse her mother as a child. The opening scene would show a flashback to this trauma as a child, then cut to the present with the woman walking from a school covered in blood after killing her latest victim.
Horror presentation
Horror films typically use certain visual conventions like dark colors, low lighting to emphasize shadows, and props like knives and chainsaws associated with killers. Common monsters seen are vampires, werewolves, and mummies. Characters usually include monsters, killers, victims, and someone who figures things out. Settings are often dark, abandoned places at night to build suspense. Horror narratives focus on the conflicts and dilemmas faced by main characters dealing with evil forces or characters. Common themes include good vs. evil, religion, the supernatural, and issues beyond life and death.
Written treatment
The document outlines the key details of a horror film treatment called "The Walk". It takes place on a university campus and isolated house in the woods. The main characters are stereotypical college students on spring break. In Act 1, the students decide to stay in a remote house instead of on campus. In Act 2, one student hears a strange noise in the woods but gets distracted. Characters then start going missing. By Act 3, only one girl is left alive as the villain has been killing the other teenagers. The treatment provides characters, locations, a logline and brief summaries of each act to outline the plot of the slasher/psychological horror movie.
Written treatment
The document outlines the plot details for a horror film called "The Walk". It will follow a group of university students who decide to spend their spring break in an isolated house in the woods instead of staying on campus. In act one, the students arrive happily at the house. In act two, one of the girls hears a strange noise and sees something lurking in the woods, but gets distracted. Characters then start going missing. By act three, only the last girl is left standing to face the psycho villain who has been killing the teenagers. The logline states it is a slasher/psychological horror about a group of teens who are unaware of the danger in their isolated surroundings during their spring break celebrations.
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Two girls throw a Halloween party while home alone but things take a turn for the worse when a body is discovered in the upstairs bathroom. The film will utilize high angle shots, midshots, and close ups to capture the party scene and victims' reactions. It will also include straight cuts, jump cuts, and point of view shots from the victims and murders alongside dark, eerie sounds, screams, footsteps and abruptly ending music to develop tension and mystery over who will be the next target.
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The document discusses the various technologies the author learned to use in constructing their magazine product. These include Photoshop for image editing and layout, a Canon SLR camera for high quality photos, Prezi for displaying research ideas, DaFont for selecting fonts, Twitter for audience research feedback, Blogger for documenting the process, Flickr for image uploading and annotation, Slideshare for evaluation presentations, and a Mac computer for overall work using these programs like Photoshop and Blogger. The author had to learn how to use many of these technologies as they had no prior experience with them.
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- 2. Research For my genre I have chose horror. In horror films the main plot of the film tends to focus on the audiences fears, hidden fears and terror. The plots tend to be an evil force, an event or something supernatural happening. The main elements in horror films include ghosts, demons, gore, cannibals and serial killers.
- 3. Research Insidious (2010)- This film shows the gripping story of a family in search of help for their son Dolton, who fell into a coma after a mysterious incident in the attic. Strange happenings begin to take their toll on the families lives. Scream (1996)- A masked killer beings killing teenagers in a small town and as the body count rises, one girl and her friends contemplate the ‘rules’ of horror films as they find themselves living a real life one.
- 4. Plot Ideas Plot 1- Stalker: A teenage girl and her family starts getting strange text messages and creepy calls from an unknown number. One night the girl is walking home through the woods with her friends when she begins to see mysterious figures through the trees. A strange man appears in front of the girls and they begin to run one girl trips and is dragged away and murdered by the man. The other girls are left wondering who’s next? Plot 2- It’s the weekend of Halloween and two girls are left home alone for the weekend whilst their parents are away. They decide to have a Halloween party. Everyone turns up in there best Halloween costumes, but some are a little more unusual than others. A mysterious group of people turn up in masks, this is when everything begins to take a horrible turn for the worse when a body is discovered upstairs in the bathroom…
- 5. Soundtrack Ideas Screams (high pitched) Creaky doors Voice-over Heavy breathing Diegetic and non-diegetic sound Sounds of footsteps
- 6. Location Houses Woods Derelict areas Preferably at night time
- 7. Cinematography and Editing Eye-level and mid shots Worms eye Birds eye over location e.g the house or woods Point of view (of the actors in the scene)
- 8. Poster and magazine The poster and magazine will match the rest of the trailer by having similar colour schemes e.g blacks, reds and whites. The same font of writing as what’s on the trailer, the same actors on the front of the magazine and poster to show an insight into the trailer. Quotes from the trailer printed on the front of the magazine and poster.
- 9. What need to do next and to create my trailer Actors (reliable people) Location Deciding roles within the group Props Research more trailers to gain more ideas. Software and equipment available.