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.
Monday, 22 November 2010
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.
We think that this is an ideal costume as the identity of most murders/psycos is mostly always anonymous.
Thursday, 18 November 2010
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.'
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.'
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
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.
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 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.
Our Genre- Horror
For our final piece, we are going to be focusing on the genre 'horror'.
We have started to think about how we are going to film it, and we have thought about filiming it like 'The Blair Witch Project.'
We think that this would add to a good effect, and it will show the audience what the 'characters' see, and how they are feeling as it will be a 'Point of View' shot through out the majority of the task.
The filming will take place within the woods, the location yet still undecided, however we do have some rough ideas in our area of where the filming will take place.
The people who will be acting will be our group; Sophie, Emma, Charlotte and myself.
We have started to think about how we are going to film it, and we have thought about filiming it like 'The Blair Witch Project.'
We think that this would add to a good effect, and it will show the audience what the 'characters' see, and how they are feeling as it will be a 'Point of View' shot through out the majority of the task.
The filming will take place within the woods, the location yet still undecided, however we do have some rough ideas in our area of where the filming will take place.
The people who will be acting will be our group; Sophie, Emma, Charlotte and myself.
Monday, 8 November 2010
Crime Cliches
The essential parts to a crime film are - the police are as bad as the gangters. Gangster films pretty much always show tough guys off the hardscrabble streets of blighted metropolises who turn to crime life because: it's the only way forward, they were wronged by authorities at a young age or they realised that Credit Suisse and Bank of America never higher people from their ethic background, so they might as well become leg breakers.
Gangster movies always have an amorphous code of behaviour whether it's omerta or hounour amoung thieves or "let's keep it in the family". This code is vaguely defined, it cannot be violated.
Crime movies usually always have a rat, sometimes several rats. The rat can either be an undercover cop, a member of the gang or even the gang leader himself/herself. Gangters have a hard time indentifying the rat, although the rat is usually alwqays the newest and best looking member of the gang, and they never seem to belong to the same ethnic group as the rest of the members of the gang. Gangster moves often include scenes set within a night club or a resaurant where somebody will say the wrong thing to the wrong guy, and later on will regret it.
In crime movies, there is usually one 'straight arrow' whom the gangsters have respect for because he is not completely crooked like them.
Gangster movies always have an amorphous code of behaviour whether it's omerta or hounour amoung thieves or "let's keep it in the family". This code is vaguely defined, it cannot be violated.
Crime movies usually always have a rat, sometimes several rats. The rat can either be an undercover cop, a member of the gang or even the gang leader himself/herself. Gangters have a hard time indentifying the rat, although the rat is usually alwqays the newest and best looking member of the gang, and they never seem to belong to the same ethnic group as the rest of the members of the gang. Gangster moves often include scenes set within a night club or a resaurant where somebody will say the wrong thing to the wrong guy, and later on will regret it.
In crime movies, there is usually one 'straight arrow' whom the gangsters have respect for because he is not completely crooked like them.
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Action Cliches
Often in actions films, they feature a group of 'world-weary assassins or Green Berets or Navy Seals or mercenaries' who will pull together to do one last suicidal mission.
It is common that at least two men will not want to go on the assignment; at the end of the film one of the men will end up saving the men that originially went out on the mission, to which this man will die.
During the film, the leader will tell his men 'This is my fight. You guys have no skin in this game. You're free to go.' but the men will never leave and abandon their mission.
Several large men possess a preposterouos level of upper body musculature, and these are the men that will often be betrayed by someone who does not possess upper body musculature, but who employs lots of people that do. These men are often a lot smaller as well, so the muscular men get betrayed by weedy men.
There is a group often referred to as 'the firm' and muscular men will often be stabbed in the back by bitter rivals, mostly weasel-like politicians or somebody who is an ex member of staff from the CIA.
For example, in the film '300' the Spartans are betrayed by a hunchback drawf.
Contemporary action films often have a villian who are heavily accented Russians, Serbs or unidentified, all-purpose easten Europeans sociopaths, cigar-smoking thugs from south of the bored or untrustworthy Arabs, or villainous bureaucrats from Washington or London.
Women are tend to be shown as promiscuous femmes fatales or crusading journalists or medical support staff or happles rebels or victims or miscats.
Good action films feature some form of emergency surgey; a fall from a great height, a reasonable amount of toture and a lot of rappelling. An action film without rappelling, is like a horror film without disembowelment. In action films, men often rappell down high-rises, mountains and into holds of ships.
'The prinipals should have a lot of scars, and each scar should come with a story.' A good example is a psyco with an eye-patch and a machete. The hero should have lost his soul and is struggling to regain even the smallest amount of dignity that will help remind him of a time he did not want to wake up and puke his guts out.
No one drives a car in action films, ever. Off-road vehicles only. This also means no mules, no ponies, no biofuel vehicles. At some point, a woman [especially the lead woman] will get punched in the face, an arrow or bullet will fire through the villians skull, and a blade or piston will trip through a mans chest from behind.
Within the martial arts genre, the hereo should run up the wall to attack somebody violently, and ninjas should fly through the air [on invisible wire of course] to which one ninja should turn out the be a woman. Ninjas often do aerial battle in the bamboo forest.
Ninjas often descend from the ceiling which is common in this genre, however the villians never expect this, and the hero often picks them off one by one.
It is common that at least two men will not want to go on the assignment; at the end of the film one of the men will end up saving the men that originially went out on the mission, to which this man will die.
During the film, the leader will tell his men 'This is my fight. You guys have no skin in this game. You're free to go.' but the men will never leave and abandon their mission.
Several large men possess a preposterouos level of upper body musculature, and these are the men that will often be betrayed by someone who does not possess upper body musculature, but who employs lots of people that do. These men are often a lot smaller as well, so the muscular men get betrayed by weedy men.
There is a group often referred to as 'the firm' and muscular men will often be stabbed in the back by bitter rivals, mostly weasel-like politicians or somebody who is an ex member of staff from the CIA.
For example, in the film '300' the Spartans are betrayed by a hunchback drawf.
Contemporary action films often have a villian who are heavily accented Russians, Serbs or unidentified, all-purpose easten Europeans sociopaths, cigar-smoking thugs from south of the bored or untrustworthy Arabs, or villainous bureaucrats from Washington or London.
Women are tend to be shown as promiscuous femmes fatales or crusading journalists or medical support staff or happles rebels or victims or miscats.
Good action films feature some form of emergency surgey; a fall from a great height, a reasonable amount of toture and a lot of rappelling. An action film without rappelling, is like a horror film without disembowelment. In action films, men often rappell down high-rises, mountains and into holds of ships.
'The prinipals should have a lot of scars, and each scar should come with a story.' A good example is a psyco with an eye-patch and a machete. The hero should have lost his soul and is struggling to regain even the smallest amount of dignity that will help remind him of a time he did not want to wake up and puke his guts out.
No one drives a car in action films, ever. Off-road vehicles only. This also means no mules, no ponies, no biofuel vehicles. At some point, a woman [especially the lead woman] will get punched in the face, an arrow or bullet will fire through the villians skull, and a blade or piston will trip through a mans chest from behind.
Within the martial arts genre, the hereo should run up the wall to attack somebody violently, and ninjas should fly through the air [on invisible wire of course] to which one ninja should turn out the be a woman. Ninjas often do aerial battle in the bamboo forest.
Ninjas often descend from the ceiling which is common in this genre, however the villians never expect this, and the hero often picks them off one by one.
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Horror Cliches
Today we have found out that in the different catergories of horror, each one has it's own way to create the creepy atmosphere.
The different catergories for horror are: slasher, zombie, vampire, mainstream horro, Asian horro and revolting Eli Roth films. Without an absence of cliches, the entire horror film would be ruined.
Often, Japanese horros revolve around little girls coming back from the dead to get revenge for an event that happened to them at a certain age. If this was not the case for Japanese films, nobody would watch them.
The different catergories for horror are: slasher, zombie, vampire, mainstream horro, Asian horro and revolting Eli Roth films. Without an absence of cliches, the entire horror film would be ruined.
Often, Japanese horros revolve around little girls coming back from the dead to get revenge for an event that happened to them at a certain age. If this was not the case for Japanese films, nobody would watch them.
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