Planning- Setting.

For our setting, we have decided to have our film located within a woods. This will either be Ashtead Woods, or Tesco Woods in Leatherhead. This would be a good setting for our horror genre, as it is very secluded for the outside world.
This adds to the genre, as no one will be there to help to victim as they are being attacked, and this is the type of thing that we are aiming for. Also the psyco/murderer will get away with it, as no one will be around, there will be no witnesses, and it gives them a chance to hide all evidence.

Planning- Costume.

The ideal costume that we are going to wear will be dark hooded clothing, or masks. This adds to the effect of creepy, and fearful, and the masking/dark clothing will make these certain characters anonymous; by this we won't know what they look like and we do not know anything about their personal background, or as to whether they have some disorder or not.
We think that this is an ideal costume as the identity of most murders/psycos is mostly always anonymous.

Sci-Fi Cliches

'There is always something out there in the classic science fiction film.'
In science fiction films, nobody knows what is out there, or what it wants, or where it comes from. It stays like this for a long time during the film, as it makes it a lot scarier than it actually is. What is usually out there is a 'generic, off-the-rack alien.'
When an alien death ship first makes its appearance, it will be hundreds of times bigger, than the vessel first sent over to destroy Earth. It makes no difference as the ship always has some weakness that will result it it's destruction  for the final scenes. Women play an important roll in this type of movie. Because women are far less visible in conventional films, it suggests that women who are armed get more dangerous as they 'gravitate away from our galaxy.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQQpmm5u3w

This is the final scene for 'The Blair Witch Project.' The camera shot used in this adds to the tense, and petrifiying atmosphere. You can only see what the camera is showing, and the lighting is very dull which makes things more difficult to see.
This can cause your eyes to play tricks on you, which can add to the scare factor of the scene. This shot will be good to use in our scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D51QgOHrCj0

This is the trailer for 'The Blair Witch Project.' This is filmed using only a Point of View shot, with a hand held camera. As you can see from this, you cannot see everything that is going on around them; it focuses on the characters reactions, and the action that takes place.

This is a Point of View shot, and this is the shot that will be used through out most of our filming. It gives the effect that the audience will be seeing what the characters see. By doing this, it will show a very little amount of what is going on through out the shot, and adds the effect that some bad may happen, as you cannot fully see around you when you are looking around in a darkened area.

This is hopefully what our location we choose will look like, as it will set the scene and it will give the task an eerie effect. We have discoved that most horror films either take place in a house in the middle of no where, or within the woods themselves.