Ideas for Production Company Logo/Name -

We have been talking about what we would want our production company name to be and to look like, we made a mind map in our book of different names we would like to use and what could attract the audience.

The final name we decided on using was 'DARK WINDOW WORKS'

We chose this name because of the use of alliteration and how the thought of a dark window could be scary.

 

Some fonts i think would look good with this writing was:

 

 

 

 

 

 



Costumes -

What sort of costumes do you expect to see in a horror film?

~ Costumes will have to look very realistic and the costume will match the characters personality. The expectation is that the costume has to look scary but that is not always the case.

THE HANNIBAL -

How does the costumes suggest a historical period?

~ The orange jumpsuit shows a part of the late 50's - 90's

What does the costume say about the characters background?

~ The costumes suggests that the character could have some personal issues, therefore he is needed to be strapped in and wear a straight jacket. The orange jumpsuit tells us he is from America and that he is a prisoner as this is what the have to wear.

What does the costume indicate on how the character feels?

~ The character is wearing a jumpsuit / straight jacket which could make him feel claustrophobic.

Research - Horror films

What makes a horror character frightening?
A horror character needs to have a mysterious feel about it. The characters body language and facial expressions show what kind of character this is. Also if the character is hidden e.g. masks, sillouettes, blurred out.

How effective are the antagonists in horror films?
The antagonists are the main focus on the horror part of the film, for example in the start/middle of the films if the antagonists face is not given away it builds suspence.

Why are costumes so important?
- Show what type if personality the character has.
- Show where they are living (rough, scruffy, worn and torn) shows the character is not from a posh place.
- "Brand" the horror characters signature costume, e.g. (Saw "Jigsaw") wears the same thing every time so people recognise him.

Research (Costumes) -

FREDDY KRUEGER

Freddy Krueger is known as the 'Teenager killer'.
The costume he is wearing explains allot of things, like the jumper he is wearing looks like it could belong to a teenager so he could of took it of someone he has killed. The jumper is also very torn/distressed and ripped. This shows that he must wear this outfit allot and the fact that it is so ripped and distressed means he must be doing something that involved violence.
The colours on the jumper are also very useful, the red shows a sign of blood and the dark green/blue gives a kind of dark feel to the character.
The hat he is wearing is black which is also another dark colour and the hat seems to be worn to cover his head, and as the rest of his skin seems to be in a bad state it could be like that on his head also. The hat can also be worn to cover a bit of his face at the front as it shadows over him.
The plain black shoes and trousers give the character a human kind of look, as if to say this man was once a normal person. It seems strange as the trousers and shoes seem to be in perfect condition.
His skin is very torn and fleshy which shows the kind of unrealistic non-human side to this character. The fact that he could of been a normal human being once and now hat his skin is like this shows that something happened to him so for example he could of got burnt or something like that.
On Freddy's right hand there is a glove/knife fingered hand on him. The fact that this is only on one hand again gives a human feel to this as his other hand is normal apart from the disgusting skin on it. The glove and scissors are obviously used as a weapon of some sort because it would be weird for him to be using it for any other purpose. It also draws the audience in as they will want to see how he uses this hand to his advantage.
Overall i think the costume was well thought about as it relates to teenagers as well as real life human beings which in a way scares people.

Analysis Of THE EYE -

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TRAILER TO THIS FILM.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE SCENE I WILL BE LOOKING AT AND TALKING ABOUT.

 

The scene i am watching is a very intense scene. It is where the girl sees the persons eyes she has been living in, in the mirror. The scene starts of as the girl waking up with very blurred vision which gives a sense of mysteriousness and shows what the girl sees so we feel what she does. Also it is quiet so sounds do not give away what could be in he room with her or what id surrounding her. After a while a blurry figure is shown, it is clear that it is a women but her face is blurred out allot so her features are not at all to be seen which still gives across a weird sense.

The girl then looks worried because she hinks hat she is seeing things, then the features of the woman stars to appear and its clear she is in no danger and the woman asks "How are you".

 

 

 

 

That is part of a aynalsis for a section of a scene.

 

 

 

My Pitch - Jessica Faunch & Hannah Drew

This is our pitch for our opening titles. The pitch was doneusing prezzie. We hesitated a bit but next time im sure we will get future class presentations better as we will have done class speaking before.

 

Pitch Planning

Things  I will need to consider when doing my pitch -

• Target audience - Gender - age
• sound - Object sounds - Background music
• insperation - Other films
• genders - characters - Audience
• characters
• location - Avalible venues - Inside/Outside
• props - Weapons - Devices
• costume - Casual dress

Target Audience Infomation

  UNIVERSAL -
Discrimination - no discriminating language or behaiviour unless disaproved of. Sexusl behaviour must be toned down to just kissing and referring sex to 'making love'. Nudity - Occasional natural nudity with no sexual content. Violence - Mild violence only / threats. Horror - not too over the top (Breif) nothing that could mentally challenge the childs brain. Drugs must be shown as illegal and make sure that behaviour that is used is not likely to be copied by children.



 PARENTAL GUIDENCE-
General veiwing but some scenes might be unsuitable for young children. Lanuage - Mild bad language only. Natural nudity with no sexual content. Sexual activity may be implied but should be discreet and infrequent. Mild sex refrences and induendos only. Drugs can be mentioned, following a anti drugs vibe along with not so real like fighting . Frightening scenes should not be prolonged or intense.



                                     12-

       Suitable for 12 year olds only. May upset children under 12 or contain          material parents will find unsuitable. Any use of drug must be inrequent. Modeate physical psychological thecut mat be permitted. Moderate language allowed. Nudity is allowed. Sexual activity may be breif and discretly potrayed.
                       





12A-

Exactley the same criteria is used to classify work at 12A and 12. These categories are awarded where the material is suitable in general. Only for those ages 12 and over. Works classified at these categories may upset children under 12 or contain material which many parents will find unsuitable for them.






15 -

No one younger than 15. Drugs - shown but no promotion allowed, Horror - strong intrest allowed.Limitable behaviour as he shown. Should not aswell so copy. Language - frequent strong language nudity. Sexual - Without detail and violence can be at a strong sence.







18 -

Suitable for 18 years and over. No one younger than 18 can buy or see the film in the cinema.









                                     

Analysis Of The Opening Titles For Coraline.

 

 

Coraline

1.     How does the title sequence establish genre, character and narrative?

2.    How does the title sequence attract an audience’s interest?

3.    What do you consider to be the target audience of the film and why?

4.    Who has produced the film and how is that evident in the title sequence?

The doll in the opening titles is the main focus because it seems to be the main object in each bit of the scene. The doll is quite strange and scary and the weird odd like music adds to the strangeness of the doll.

It is obvious that someone is working on the doll and planning to do something with it. When the person who is working on the dolls hands are revealed, they are not ordinary hands, they are made from metal and they seem to be quite large and scrawny like.

The doll is being ripped, torn shredded to pieces and as the doll looks like a person, in our heads we imagine this to be a real person so it could be quite disturbing.

The enclosed kind of workshop place makes it feel weird as it could be a really weird psychopath that has his own workshop/study that keeps all these strange little dolls that allot of people could find scary or abnormal.

The lighting is very artificial because the whole film is cartoon/play dough based but the lights seem to be a dark green/yellow kind of colour.

When the sewing and piercing and ripping is taking place the noises are quite strange and really do add to the effect of a strange atmosphere. Even though all the movement is in cartoon it is still really life like and weird.

The title sequence attracts the audience because it is an on-going project on the doll and they want to see what the end product will look like, also the audience will want to know what this thing/metal handed thing that is making the doll looks like and the audience will want to know what the doll has been made for and if it has a purpose.

The target audience of the film could be either children or adults. It could be suitable for children because it is cartoon based and kind orientated, as well as using the doll, allot of children have dolls. It could be targeted at adults also because the strangeness and weirdness could intrigue the adult to want to watch more.

The producers of this film are callled LAIKA, they show that they have produced the film by introducing them , here is a screenshot of where they are mentioned in the title sequence:

 

MANAMANA - Acting Practice And Shot Practice - Me,Joe,Ryan

 

 

With Joe and Ryan we were asked to practice our filming and editing skills. We worked as a team to practice camera shots and editied it so that we would have smooth transitions.

Although this was a relatively quick practice we were actually able to learn alot about contiuity.

We were very happy with our end product:

LESSON - Video Timelaps.

In this lesson we was planning what location and characters we was going to use for our preliminary task. This lesson was 55 minutes long but we accidently picked the wrong camera setting to the video only lasts for about five seconds.

This was the first time we used the camea and the first time we had included it into our work.

How is sound used within my extract? ~ 'sean of the dead'

In lesson me and my group chose to watch a scene from 'sean of the dead' (horror/comedy film).
We was asked to look at how sounds effect the scenario.
We watched the scene where there is a fight in the pub with the zombies, some of the sounds i noticed was:
~ when they are hitting the zombie with the pool stick the noise has been added in as a loud whipping sound. The noise has been over reacted so that the main focus is them whipping the zombie.
~ while this is happening, the song "dont stop me now" by Queen is playing on the jukebox ... this adds the comedy side to the fighting and the fighting seems in time with the music.
~ but the horror side is still there because of the groaning zombies and the dark and gloomy pub atmosphere.
here is the scene, this is not my video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB98-NOO9Ug&feature=youtube_gdata_player

-LESSON- Genres & Audiences

In this lesson I learnt about the different genres of films and what different audiences they attract. I learnt two key words "mass audience" & "niche audience" , these are just two names for a very large audience (mass) .. And a smaller audience (niche). Its not just films that can attract different audiences .. Its all kinds of media.