Horror Film

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MAJOR PROBLEMS

after shooting what was to be our first base of the film, disaster struck. The owner of the location came across some personal problems and since then, we haven't been able to film there. by this point. we had edited the shots we already had together, and soon realized we needed to re-film some shots. the only way we had to get around this is to COMPLETELY Re-film everything at a different location. which, 4 days before the deadline is a risky move. but it's the only option we had.

Filming Problems

Recently we had planned to go filming, so we got the location sorted and equipment, but the actor was already being used that day for a different film. Because we already have footage of her as the character we could not have used an emergency actor. This is a major downside to using a popular actor amongst the projects.

RECCE SHEET

TEST SHOT

SHOT LIST

STORYBOARD

SCRIPT

Written by

                       Alex Parsons and Joe Louth

Fade in whilst the noise of a tapping foot is constantly playing

Int. Bedroom – Night.

Theres a person view of a persons closed eyes whilst in the background noises are happening. The noise then gets louder until a very loud bang.

The person’s eyes then open suddenly.

It then transitions to a longer shot of the bedroom as the person sits up and looks around.

The person will now look on edge as a tapping noise is in the background.

A Cross dissolve to show the passing of time

The clock in the background will show that time has passed whilst the noises still taking place.

The person then picks up a blunt object slowly and walks towards the door almost tiptoeing.

The noise of tapping then stops when she touches the door handle.

He takes a step back closes his eyes opens them quickly and grabs the door handle quickly and rips open the door

Int. Hallway - Night

(The camera switches to first person.)

She walks down the hallway, stops at a corner she goes to look round the corner.

The camera switches to viewing him and where he came from. In the background is a shadow.

Int Stairs – Night

She’s on the top of the stairs looking down at the darkness except the kitchen which has the light on.

Daisy

Mum? Dad?

No response. As she goes down the stairs she hears footsteps from the room that she is going to enter.

She walks down the stairs getting more nervous as she looks round to the kitchen nothing is there.

Int Kitchen – Night

 The camera follows her checking the kitchen and follows her hand as she gets the drink and puts water in it.

In the background of the shot a figure is stood staring at her.

Then as the close-up of her turning off the light and switches back to look in the kitchen the figure is in the room. Can’t see any features of it.

Camera goes for over the shoulder shot, she stops, turns round to look in the kitchen.

As she looks, the figure has disappeared, but there is a sound now on the stairs

Int Stairs and hallway- Night

 The girl walks upstairs and as she’s walking back to her room you see behind her in her parents room with a arm hanging off the bed with blood dripping off it.

Fade Off when on the bloody hand shot. 






















NOTE: the actual film has stuck to the basic elements of this script, but small parts of it have been taken out and added, for a more interesting and scary film

Editing in progress

so far, the editing is going well, sadly we could not get the location for the next shoot so we have had to postphone the shoot, this is quite risky due to the approaching deadline.. but the re-shoot is definitely needed for the unique sounds we need to create. The clips are flowing very well, better than we had expected, we still need to do the sound tracks over the film. and the title, but these should not take too long. overall we are pleased with the progress being made.

evaluation questions 2 & 3

Our media project challenged some of the codes and conventions that run through a lot of horror films. Even though we tried to stray away from the attitude in horror films of the victim always wanting to check what the noise was in ghost films we couldn’t find an alternative to make it seem realistic.  But in our piece we tried to show as little of the threat as possible and create the majority of the tension with just using noises and close-ups. The noise was a constant beat at the start to make the audience wonder what it is which will eventually build up to a bang at the end I believe that this was a good way to make the tension build.  I believe also that the close ups at the start added to the tension as well this however did go along with the conventions of the horror film as a lot of horror films tend to use close-ups so the audience doesn’t know what’s happening as much.

Our audience for our piece hopefully would be broader than a lot of other genres of horror films. Since ghost isn’t gory or completely full of action it can appeal to both genres and many ages. But our audience which would have the most in it would probably be males aged 14-25 this is due to stereotypically males enjoy horror movies more than girls and that age range will be the most likely to enjoy a ghost movie. The reason that we think our piece would appeal to a larger audience is due to the main character also being female which a female audience would be able to relate to more and the male audience enjoying the horror aspect more. The age of our audience could be higher because that people usually enjoy horror movies over the age of 25 but ghost movies are more appreciated by the younger generation we believe. But under the age of 14 generally will get too scared by horror movies thus we wouldn’t expect many viewings off that also due to our age rating they would not be allowed to watch it but people still do. 14 year old is still under the age rating but they are  still likely watch it.