RESEARCH & PLANNING

My Research of codes and conventions of horror films:
Example of Horror films are:
'Psycho'- Psychological
'The Exorcist'- Religious
'Wolf Creek'- True Story
'Texas ChainSaw Massacre'- Gore

-Horror films are very worrying and disturbing films that are intended to scare and panic audiences, cause dread and alarm, invoke audience’s hidden fears.
-The fears in life are created in the films:
For example nightmares, alienation, fear of death, loss of identity and fear of sexuality etc.

-With the characters in most horror films the killer always has some sort of trade mark and it's always good against evil.
-The atmosphere is typically sinister and location often appears dark and isolated.
-Antagonist has a pattern in the way work or kill.
-They don’t always use well known actors, because they want to make the audience feel uncomfortable and creates a sense of it being real.

Shot list:
-High angle shot of them playing outside
-Mid shot of her behind the car (high angle)
-Medium close up of her seeing the reflection through the mirror/ window
-Mid shot of her turning round (high angel)
-Two shot of her friend finding her
-Close up of her smiling (eye level)
-Picture of title
-Wide shot of her in the shopping centre
-Two shots of her and her friends laughing (eye level)
-Very wide shot of the image of her looking ahead with the figure standing there
-Extreme close up of her eyes looking at the figure
-Very wide shot of the same position but without the figure being there
-Picture of title
-Mid shot of her walking towards her cupboard and opening it
-Over the shoulder shot of her looking into the small mirror (eye level)
-Two shot of it grabbing her neck (eye level)
-Mid shot of her on the floor
-Extreme close up of the chandler
-Mid shot of sister opening the door (low angle)
-Wide shot of her sister on the floor and she screams
-Close up shot of the dead girl (camera slanted)
-Point of view shot of the figure standing outside from a far distance
-picture of the title name

Shot list of our new 2 minute scene:
-wide shot of her laying on the bed doing her nails
-tittle comes on
-wide shot of her picking her phone up and talking on the phone
-mediam close up of her on the phone to show her facial expressions more clearly
-titlle comes on
-close up of her looking into the mirror and talking, then walks out the room
-title comes on
-she gets out her room and sees the person dressed in all black
-point of veiw shot of the figure moving about in slow motion
-tittle comes on

Evidence of researching story ideas:
Me and Foyez searched up different types of horror films and watched the beginning scenes so that it can give us a sense of what we should do for our sequence as well.
The films that we watched together where Halloween, The lovely bones, Friday the thirteenth, saw 7 and Final destination 5.
We got an idea of using a mask for our sequence which is from ‘Halloween’ and ‘Friday the thirteenth’, also the use of the voices echoing in the begging of the sequence we are planning to use is from the film ‘The lovely bones’. ’ Final destination 5’ gave us an idea of how all the friends and family are going to die one by one. And finally ‘Saw 7’ gave us an idea of using blood in our sequence to make the audience feel sympathy and frightened as it is a horror movie that we are creating.

In the new film we had to create we got ideas from 'Paranormal Activity 3'
We decided to use the 'bloody Mary' scene and just change it a bit to make it terrifying and startling. Because of the time limit we could not think of more and better ideas, if we did we would have set the scenes in a few different locations and not just one to make it look better and also spend more time on it to make it close to being perfect.

Production Meeting:
The first thing that I am going to make is the costume for the villain which is going to be dressed in a black cloak. We will then both use our own camera to try and film out the sequence and see if we can create a realistic atmosphere until we get the actual camera, it will be a practice preparation for us. We will then make sure that our three settings are appropriate and good to create the scene in which is outside on the road, in a shopping centre and also in a bed room.

After changing the film we did not have another production meeting so we just had to make something with the old meeting and try and do something different. With our old settings it was the shopping centre, outside the house and in the room, we had already done the room so we just used that one setting to the scene in.

Equipment list:
-Camera
-Tripod
-Black cloak

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