Questionnaire- Horror
(Circle the answer)
1. What type of setting do you find most scary?
A. Graveyard B. House C. Abandoned area D. Other
2. What is your favourite type of horror Film?
A. Slasher B. Haunting C. Psychological D. Crime/Mystery E. None
3. What is your favourite genre?
4. What is your favourite film in this genre and what draws you to it?
Favourite Film:
A. Advertisements B. Actors/Actresses C. Trailer
5. What do you most dislike about this genre?
A. Blood/Gore B. Lack of story C. Characters
6. What elements do you expect to witness in this genre?
A. Hero/Survivor B. Villain/Killer
7. What do you believe to be the best thing about horror movies?
A. Story line B. Blood/Gore C. Suspense D. Setting E. Acting
8. What is the best type of killer?
A. Mysterious B. Public C. Serial
9. Are you affected by horrors when you watch them?
A. Yes B. No
10. What do you expect to see at the end of a horror film?
A. The evil character is killed or taken away B. The evil character gets away and continues what he’s doing
Monday 31 October 2011
Sunday 30 October 2011
Our Film Treatment
The main theme or idea of the film opening that my group is creating is horror, we have a different selection of conventions for our film these are: murder or cannibalism, insanity, disfigurement and displacement or being lost.
Our groups main theme or idea of our film opening is that our theme will be horror,Lauren will be filming with the camera (making sure we have the correct camera movements and angles), Me (Craig Fallows) and Ryan Rheeston will be acting out the storu of our film opening. In the plot or storyline is me and Ryan are to dis-figured characters or shown as "in-breads" will be chasing David.With this as our plot we will have four concepts in this filming opening and will try to achieve these concepts within the characters of the plot.
The main character of the opening will be the survivor (David Hutchins), him and a few other friends will be the survivors for the beginning of the film, the majority of the people who begin in the group will be the characters who die to show the four concepts of the film opening.David Hutchins -the survivor should be a believable character as he will be the one taking the lead and making most of the judgments and to make the decisions throughout the few minutes of the opening, this will show that he is the main character by making these decisions and judgements for other characters throughout our plot and theme.
The characters goal in our film opening is to escape a certain area and environment (still to be decided) which is woods or a forest with narrow space to create the theme and genre which is horror.Having narrow space is good as part of our plot is for David to escape but make this hard for David, eventually David get lost which is one of a concepts which is "displacement"with having narrow space (such as a narrow path way through the woods)this will prove a challenge as David gets chased by me and Ryan Rheeston (characters - inbred s) as part of plot is the murderers trying to stop other people and David from escaping, this is the inbred s goal.Davids goal is obviously to help others and himself to make judgements and decisions to get out of the woods or forest for survival as they become trapped within the environment.
The location of the film will be in woods or a forest outside of the city suburbs near the by countryside farms.Our filming opening will be filmed outside.
David and a few other people's (David Friends) lives will be at risk in the film, in horror genre it's normally the characters and their friends whose life is at risk.
The interesting characters we have in our film is David himself (Main charterer) as this will be a challenge to get out the woods or forest alive but by staying alive he will make judgement for other people which will be interesting as will he make the right decisions and judgements for his fiends.
Other charterers throughout our film opening is the inbred (me and Ryan) as these are the one's killing and chasing people such as David and his friends.These characters will be interesting because they will carrying on watching until they have seen what will happen,The inbred characters will a;ways be moving about around the location or environment so this is why they will be interesting characters.
Our groups main theme or idea of our film opening is that our theme will be horror,Lauren will be filming with the camera (making sure we have the correct camera movements and angles), Me (Craig Fallows) and Ryan Rheeston will be acting out the storu of our film opening. In the plot or storyline is me and Ryan are to dis-figured characters or shown as "in-breads" will be chasing David.With this as our plot we will have four concepts in this filming opening and will try to achieve these concepts within the characters of the plot.
The main character of the opening will be the survivor (David Hutchins), him and a few other friends will be the survivors for the beginning of the film, the majority of the people who begin in the group will be the characters who die to show the four concepts of the film opening.David Hutchins -the survivor should be a believable character as he will be the one taking the lead and making most of the judgments and to make the decisions throughout the few minutes of the opening, this will show that he is the main character by making these decisions and judgements for other characters throughout our plot and theme.
The characters goal in our film opening is to escape a certain area and environment (still to be decided) which is woods or a forest with narrow space to create the theme and genre which is horror.Having narrow space is good as part of our plot is for David to escape but make this hard for David, eventually David get lost which is one of a concepts which is "displacement"with having narrow space (such as a narrow path way through the woods)this will prove a challenge as David gets chased by me and Ryan Rheeston (characters - inbred s) as part of plot is the murderers trying to stop other people and David from escaping, this is the inbred s goal.Davids goal is obviously to help others and himself to make judgements and decisions to get out of the woods or forest for survival as they become trapped within the environment.
The location of the film will be in woods or a forest outside of the city suburbs near the by countryside farms.Our filming opening will be filmed outside.
David and a few other people's (David Friends) lives will be at risk in the film, in horror genre it's normally the characters and their friends whose life is at risk.
The interesting characters we have in our film is David himself (Main charterer) as this will be a challenge to get out the woods or forest alive but by staying alive he will make judgement for other people which will be interesting as will he make the right decisions and judgements for his fiends.
Other charterers throughout our film opening is the inbred (me and Ryan) as these are the one's killing and chasing people such as David and his friends.These characters will be interesting because they will carrying on watching until they have seen what will happen,The inbred characters will a;ways be moving about around the location or environment so this is why they will be interesting characters.
Friday 28 October 2011
Film Production
Group: Me (Ryan Rheeston), Craig Fallows, Lauren Powell, David Hutchins
Genre: Horror
In our film we are using a style similar to the horror movie 'wrong turn', a group of people are going to get lost in the woods and are going to find out a nasty surprise when a few horrible characters come to visit.In the fiilm we w have four key concepts that will be in our film and these are disfigurement, cannibalism, displacement
and insanity.Lauren will be filmimg me, Ryan and David doing part of the plot in camera shots and angles. In the plot or storyline is me and Ryan are to dis-figured characters or shown as "in-breads" will be chasing David but has to find a way in which he has two ways out but does in make the right turn......
Genre: Horror
In our film we are using a style similar to the horror movie 'wrong turn', a group of people are going to get lost in the woods and are going to find out a nasty surprise when a few horrible characters come to visit.In the fiilm we w have four key concepts that will be in our film and these are disfigurement, cannibalism, displacement
and insanity.Lauren will be filmimg me, Ryan and David doing part of the plot in camera shots and angles. In the plot or storyline is me and Ryan are to dis-figured characters or shown as "in-breads" will be chasing David but has to find a way in which he has two ways out but does in make the right turn......
Wednesday 26 October 2011
Our Group's Mood Board, Key Concepts
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| Our group present you our mood board we created |
This is our mood board of which our group created, In our group is Myself, Ryan Rheeston, Lauren Powell and David Hutchins.This is based on our film explaining all four of the key concepts which are; Cannibalism, Disfigurement, Displacement and Insanity.In our mood board we have picture cut out around a large piece of
paper, these images are split into sections of which our concept of genre, the concepts are pictures and other materials which have titles above them.Our groups main title is in the center of the page which tells you what the main point of the film.The four key concepts are all in different sections of our mood board.
The four key concepts are
- Disfigurement
- Cannibalism
- Displacement
- Insanity
In the right bottom right hand corner of the mood board is a key concept which is disfigurement.In the Disfigurement section you can see is faces of which disfigured and also a mask on top of the face, in the corner of the mood board you see a person being murdered and also with a disfigured face by the person being murdered. Our group have chosen disfigurement as the disfigured characters draws them closer to the point of murdering others so we think this is a good concept for horror
In the bottom left hand corner is a key concept cannibalism.Cannibalism is shown in the mood board as you can see body parts and limbs such as arms and legs being spread out showing that they have been tore off people.Within the section of cannibalism you can also see in the corner two people or characters around a body eating some of the body parts, this shows the concept of cannibalism.The word 'cannibalism used as a sub-title for that section which draws people to look into how it is and what cannibalism is. Our group have have chosen cannibalism because it is scary the fact that people would be willing to kill other people then eat them,Our group thought this would be a great concept of horror.
Another key concept is displacement which is shown at the top of the mood board.The images showing displacement is in different places of the mood board to really show what it means.There is also a person which is blurred shows that the person is lost which also show displacement and shows that the persons can be any in a place of where they can be.This concepts of our genre shows that this person can show's emotion and feelings as if they will never be found or want don't want to be found, this drawbacks to our genre 'horror'. Around the section of displacement is signs, theirs signs represent choices or decisions which with the genre horror the right or wrong way can decide a person or characters fate within a horror movie.
The final key concept is insanity which is scattered images around our mood board.We scattered the images as we thought of insanity, our thoughts were scattered and misread. An images we have used is the joker from the batman film as the character is shown as a insane character in the film and also a character that would put fear into you.We have also used the image of autopsy on the brain at the bottom, which links to insanity, as the brain is the key cause of insanity with living creatures.In the mood board we have used a title in the middle which is "killer". We used this as we thought of killers of which are insane and also killers fits well within our genre (horror)
Thursday 20 October 2011
Audience Research Task
Audience research is important as without the audience media texts would not be created. The size and reaction of the audience measures the success of the film.The people (audience) who buy the film provide income for the production companies, it is therefore important that films are advertised.
The audience are categorized by characteristics, the characteristics of people and these criteria often used when identifying the characteristics of the target audience for particular media text.
Three Key Audience Theories
Audience theories is used to understand the relationship between the media and it's audience.Here are some key audience theories
Hypodermic needle effect
A key audience theory is the hypodermic needle effect.This theory suggests that the media is capable of mass manipulation.This is based on assumption that the audience believe what it see, People are therefore gullible. The Hypodermic Needle theory or model suggests that the information from a text passes into the mass consciouness of an audience, examples such as experience and intelligence and also the opinion of an individual are not relevant to the reception of the text. This theory suggests that the audience are manipulated by the creators of media texts.
Use's and Gratification
Another key audience theory is the uses and gratification theory.This theory suggests that the audience has a set of needs and that them needs are meet by the media.Uses and Gratifications theory places more focus on the consumer and audience, instead of the actual message itself by asking “what people do with media” rather than “what media does to people".This theory suggests that the audience watch the films to get away from their own lives.
Reception Analysis
Another key theory is the reception analysis.The reception analysis suggests that the audience interpret the meaning based on a individual cultural background or life experience.
Two-step flow Model
The two-step flow suggests that the ideas flow from mass media to opinion leaders, and from them to a wider population.
Bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience_theory
http://www.mediaknowall.com/as_alevel/alevkeyconcepts/alevelkeycon.php?pageID=audience
The audience are categorized by characteristics, the characteristics of people and these criteria often used when identifying the characteristics of the target audience for particular media text.
Three Key Audience Theories
Audience theories is used to understand the relationship between the media and it's audience.Here are some key audience theories
Hypodermic needle effect
A key audience theory is the hypodermic needle effect.This theory suggests that the media is capable of mass manipulation.This is based on assumption that the audience believe what it see, People are therefore gullible. The Hypodermic Needle theory or model suggests that the information from a text passes into the mass consciouness of an audience, examples such as experience and intelligence and also the opinion of an individual are not relevant to the reception of the text. This theory suggests that the audience are manipulated by the creators of media texts.
Use's and Gratification
Another key audience theory is the uses and gratification theory.This theory suggests that the audience has a set of needs and that them needs are meet by the media.Uses and Gratifications theory places more focus on the consumer and audience, instead of the actual message itself by asking “what people do with media” rather than “what media does to people".This theory suggests that the audience watch the films to get away from their own lives.
Reception Analysis
Another key theory is the reception analysis.The reception analysis suggests that the audience interpret the meaning based on a individual cultural background or life experience.
Two-step flow Model
The two-step flow suggests that the ideas flow from mass media to opinion leaders, and from them to a wider population.
Bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience_theory
http://www.mediaknowall.com/as_alevel/alevkeyconcepts/alevelkeycon.php?pageID=audience
Sunday 16 October 2011
Codes and Conventions of Film Openings
There are a lot of codes and conventions to film opening which some have similarities and differences.
Production Logo & Distribution Logo
Film opening often start with a production logo or a distribution logo.The production logo and distribution logo tell the audience which film company produced the film, an example is Disney-pixar presents or 'Walt Disney pictures'. These logo's being shown at the start are important as audiences will want to know what company has produced the film, audiences might like one particular film company so it's important for these film company logo's to be shown. that work on the movie. Depending on the budget of the film or the publicity created for the film these production logo's or distribution logos will be edited in a form that relates to the movie.
Logo's
Here are some production,film company and distribution logos
Begin with establishing shot
Films often start with an establishing shot,an example of a film with an establishing shot is scary movie two.The film start off with an extreme long shot showing a big house in the dark (0:03).From the house this creates an effect which is showing the environment and surroundings before you see any characters.The technical codes in this opening scene is music, the music creates an atmosphere of elegance and also makes a mood jolly with the type of music being played.A genre convention in this film is at 3.07 when the character starts to cough, the character coughs while on the toilet and has fly's on his face .This section of the opening scene has horror in it as he has fly's on him and also coughing but they don't make the horror scary to make the audience scared so it's an hysterical way to make the audience laugh as he's on the toilet with fly's on his face, this is a genre convention as the bit i just described about has humor.
Another establishing shot at the opening scene of a movie is a film called Men In Black.The establishing shot is different to scary movie as the shot in men ib black is like a moving shot where as Scary Movie two establishing shot is a still shot. In the Scary Move Two shot you can just see a house so you don't really know the environment to well but where as in Men In Black establishing shot you can see that they are in a remote location such as a desert.A symbolic code of Men In Black is the costume the main character is wearing and also another character wearing in the background is wearing the same costume (0.11).The symbolic code can signify that they work for a organization or work for someone.
Title of the movie
The title of the film is in the opening scene, the title of the film in which it's presented can suggest the content of the film or the film genre.An example of this is Transformers Three Dark Of Moon, From the title of the movie it gives you suggestions or hints of what the genre of the film is and also the content of the film, with the way that it is presented.From the title of the movie the genre has sci fi in it as you can get it has a robotic or mechanical things happening to make the title "Transformers 3" this is a convention in the opening scene.
Production Logo & Distribution Logo
Film opening often start with a production logo or a distribution logo.The production logo and distribution logo tell the audience which film company produced the film, an example is Disney-pixar presents or 'Walt Disney pictures'. These logo's being shown at the start are important as audiences will want to know what company has produced the film, audiences might like one particular film company so it's important for these film company logo's to be shown. that work on the movie. Depending on the budget of the film or the publicity created for the film these production logo's or distribution logos will be edited in a form that relates to the movie.
Logo's
Here are some production,film company and distribution logos
Begin with establishing shot
Films often start with an establishing shot,an example of a film with an establishing shot is scary movie two.The film start off with an extreme long shot showing a big house in the dark (0:03).From the house this creates an effect which is showing the environment and surroundings before you see any characters.The technical codes in this opening scene is music, the music creates an atmosphere of elegance and also makes a mood jolly with the type of music being played.A genre convention in this film is at 3.07 when the character starts to cough, the character coughs while on the toilet and has fly's on his face .This section of the opening scene has horror in it as he has fly's on him and also coughing but they don't make the horror scary to make the audience scared so it's an hysterical way to make the audience laugh as he's on the toilet with fly's on his face, this is a genre convention as the bit i just described about has humor.
Another establishing shot at the opening scene of a movie is a film called Men In Black.The establishing shot is different to scary movie as the shot in men ib black is like a moving shot where as Scary Movie two establishing shot is a still shot. In the Scary Move Two shot you can just see a house so you don't really know the environment to well but where as in Men In Black establishing shot you can see that they are in a remote location such as a desert.A symbolic code of Men In Black is the costume the main character is wearing and also another character wearing in the background is wearing the same costume (0.11).The symbolic code can signify that they work for a organization or work for someone.
Title of the movie
The title of the film is in the opening scene, the title of the film in which it's presented can suggest the content of the film or the film genre.An example of this is Transformers Three Dark Of Moon, From the title of the movie it gives you suggestions or hints of what the genre of the film is and also the content of the film, with the way that it is presented.From the title of the movie the genre has sci fi in it as you can get it has a robotic or mechanical things happening to make the title "Transformers 3" this is a convention in the opening scene.
Tuesday 11 October 2011
Genre Research
The definition of film genre is a categorization of what the film has to offer or what films are constructed to be (example action - Killer Elite, comedy - Grown Ups ) If the film is action you would expect guns ,explosions and maybe blood.
-It offers comforting reassurance in an uncontrollable world
-Film genre can be sen as a way of working through importance myths and fears
-Film genre was seen as a strategy used by producers to ensure audience identification and reduce the risk of film failing
-Film genre is not static but is reconised between industry and audience
The Disadvantages Of Film Genre
-Acknowledge that a film genre features will depend on audiences understanding
-Understanding how a film text functions in relation to the film genre
Our Film Genre (Horror and action)
For our film our group has chosen the genre "horror". We think that this genre will be a challenging genre to create a film by but also have a lot of idea's of how we can make it achieve our goals and aims towards the genre and our film.The conventions of our genre is blood, tension and scary setting (woods)When watching a Horror and action film the audience ill expect to see fears of the audience and the film will also bring there reaction to a scary shot in the film.The audience will also expect to see blood,death and also weapons such as a knife.With these convention the film will be scary.With our film having action in it the convention would be weapons being fired,a hero and also fights (fist fights).Our film will mainly focusing on horror more than action but will have action conventions.
The origins and history of horror
Horror is a genre that brings fears and emotion to the audience and also their reaction.Films such as in the 1990's was not as graphic as what they are today, films today make the audience more scared than the films back in the 1990's as there is more gore and graphic involved horror films today because of technology that helps make it more graphic.More can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film
The film genre we have chosen for our film is horror.The origins and history of film genre - horror
The genre was first introduced in the late 1890s.The first film being seen as a horror genre was in 1896 , a film called Le Manoir du diable (aka "The House of the Devil")
Good examples of our genre such as Films, Directors and Producers
Films of our genre
- Zombieland - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZombielandZombieland is a 2009 American zombie comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin as survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Together they take an extended road trip across Southwestern United States in an attempt to find a sanctuary free from zombies.
I chosen Zombieland as this film has action in it and also has a great theme for which it is zombies so this has a similarity to what we have in our film which is disfigured characters.Another reason why i chosen Zombieland as the opening is one of the flashiest openings in memory. There is no subtle build up which makes the viewers/audience right in to zombieland.
- Paranormal Activity - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal_Activity
Paranormal Activity is a 2007 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Oren Peli.The film centers on a young couple, Katie and Micah, who are haunted by a supernatural presence in their home. It is presented in the style of "found footage," from a camera set up by the couple in an attempt to photograph what is haunting them.
I had chosen Paranormal Activity as this genre is horror but is supernatural horror.I think that this genre in the terms of horror genre is good as it's "supernatural " as this has been a successful film because of the genre and it's conventions.Another reason why i chosen paranormal activity is the special effects because on a small budget, the film provides some very impacting scenery
- Sam Raimi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Raimi
Samuel Marshall "Sam" Raimi (October 23, 1959) is an American film director, producer, actor and writer. He is best known for directing cult horror films like the Evil Dead series, Darkman and Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series
- Wes Craven - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Craven
Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven (born August 2, 1939) is an American actor, film director, writer, producer, perhaps best known as the director of many horror films.
- John Carpenter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres in his four-decade career, his name is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction
- George A Romero - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_a_romero
George Andrew Romero (born February 4, 1940) is an American film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed "Godfather of all Zombies."
Wrong Turn (Particular film that fits in well with our genre) I think this is good Film for our genre as the setting or environment in the film will have the same environment as what we are doing in our film. The environment we are filimg in is in woods and this film has that same factor for our group. The theme of the genre is good for our film as the genre we are doing for film is horror, the film has characters that are dis-figured as this shows scariness as our genre is horror so it fits in with our genre.I think the film is good for our genre as the setting and plot in the film shows a lot of action and horror which makes you horrified at what you see in the film and that is one of our aims to make the audience feel scared and horrified.I think that the film fits well with our genre as the film has a lot of goriness which is another one of our aims to put in our film so that the audience feels scared, another reason why i think this film fits in with our genre is that the plot which is two characters make a wrong turn and get lost, i think that this is a good plot as this creates questions and also make the audience think what will happen next ? what will happen to the two characters lost? I think that part of this plot in the film makes it good for horror and also action.
Filmography
Year... Film......... . Director
2009 - Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer)
2007 - Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli)
Websites
Films,directors and producers i have researched from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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