Questionnaire Analysis

Costume list

Costume list
Hangman

• Mask- Hessian sack, rope
• Dungarees
• Black boots 

Male characters plus Megan

• Jeans 
• Top
• Trainers

Female character

• Dress- colorful
• Pumps
• Bracelet

Text mood board

Props list

Props List

• Hessian sack
• Rope
• Fake blood
• Bracelet 
• Irish fighting stick
• Knife
• Baseball bat 

Audience mood board

Trailer analysis

Group synopsis

Synopsis 

A group of friends go on a road trip to a music festival, but unfortunately, their car breaks down in a rural area, with no phone signal… One notices a small chalet park, where they meet the owner’s son, Victor. Victor tells them the park is closed for the winter, but they are more than welcome to stay in the workers room for the night. Victor welcomes them for a drink at the bar, where Lucy brings up the folktale of “Hangman”. Victor tries to encourage the fact it’s only a folk tale. Ella goes missing in the middle of the night, when she goes to get a bottle from the bar, for their chalet.  Her scream, get everyone’s attention making them split up, and look for clues. Drake and Megan go to the bar to find Victor, Harry goes to look and stumbles across the old, derelict park, which raises the questions, is this really shut for winter? And if it isn’t, what has caused it to shut? Joshua discover Ella’s bracelet along with newspaper scrapings in Victor’s cabin. A figure appears in the door way, wielding a large blade….Hangman. Cuts to black. Cuts back to Joshua being dragged out of the doorway by Hangman. After the second disappearance of Josh, the group realizes that Hangman is in fact real. Torture chambers, shattered glass and abandoned accommodation are discovered. The characters try to escape the derelict park and avoid the wrath of Hangman. The trailer ends with a demonic turn of the head from Hangman before a cut to black. Fin. 

My own film idea.

My own idea 

The idea I had for my own horror film was linked in with the sub-genre of supernatural. It would have involved a group of teenagers going round a friends for a birthday party. After awhile they decide to do a Ouija Board because the idea sounded fun. But they fail to do the prayer to keep evil spirits away. 

The teenagers start to talk to the evil spirit that comes through and they tell it that they aren't scared of him and to do its worse. This turns out to be a massive mistake as the spirit starts to torment them, until it eventually starts to kill them off one by one. It would end with one of the girls hiding in the bedroom, the rest of her friends killed, it will be very quite then all of a sudden something will grab her foot and she will be dragged under the bed screaming. The audience would not know what happens to her as it would quickly fade to black, but they could easily assume that the girl had been killed. 

With our own idea, we linked in the fact that it would involve teenagers as its a typical slasher horror film, which was our chosen sub-genre. We also incorporated that they will slowly get killed one by one. 

Planning record sheets

Audience and Institutions: The Woman in Black ( Watkins, 2012)

Audience and institutions - The Woman in Black from 40129

Film distribution and marketing: Paranormal activity:The marked ones

Distribution and marketing of films

What i have learnt from my research

What I have learnt from my research

From doing my research on horror I have learnt many things that will help me later on in my project:

History of horror

From studying the history of horror I have seen how they have evolved through time for example in the 1860s they started out as silent films, the most famous being Cabinet of Dr Caligari which then progressed onto the first vampire film Nosferta which caused a big outrage between Bram Stoker who believed it was too similar to Dracula which resulted in copies of the film being destroyed. Horror films over the years then dramatically changed with the main sub genre being slasher horror which is when a group of teenagers are usually hunted down by a psycho killer who kills the sexual lying active characters in the film, leaving the more androgynous characters alive. As the horror genre grew so did the amount of sub genres and hybrid genre that great with it, for example comedy horror with films like Zombieland and Shaun of the dead and also supernatural horror like paranormal activity.

Narratives

Horror films tend to stick to similar themes over the years such as good vs evil being the most common theme to feature. There is also known vs unknown which is also a common feature, this theme is mainly seen in supernatural horrors to create an element of enigma and fear to entice the audience.

The characters in horror films often show a male as being the psycho killer or villain as they are seen as the stronger gender compared to a woman. But a male hero are chosen for the same features. Any character that drinks, takes drugs or had sex are the first to usually die, this can mainly be seen in slasher films such as Halloween where the only character to survive was the androgynous female as she doesn't take any part in the other activities.

Representation

Final girl

Carol Clover came up with the final girl theory in 1992 when she wrote Men, women and chainsaws; gender in the modern horror film. After learning about the final girl theory and watching horror films in class they were very easy to spot as they are characters that have masculine traits and are often the only people to survive the killer.

Male gaze

With male gaze I have learnt that in most horror films females are portrayed as the sexualised object for the male audience to look at. They do this by using close ups of the body e.g. legs, torso or point of view shot from the males so the audience can see how the male feels about her.

Trailer conventions

From studying trailer conventions i have learnt that every trailer must include:

• The genre of the movie
• The name of the movie
• The production values of the movie

These are used to help sell the audience the film and help persuade them to go and watch it if it catches their attention. They also do this showing the equilibrium of the film which is when the audience get introduced to the characters and the setting in which the film will take place. They also do this by showing the disruption but only small snippets of it, never in full detail as they don’t want to give too much away but still attract their target audience.

Horror trailer analysis

Representation of women in horror films

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History of horror

History of Horror from 40129

Film analysis: Halloween

Horror magazine analysis

Magazine analysis