Horror Film Final Draft

Horror Film - Final Draft



Before we could submit our final clip, we had to produce a final draft to show a set audience.

Location Photo's

Location Photo's

Top: Our Location, Bottom Picture: House from the film; When a Stranger Calls

This is house is where most of the first scene will be filmed. We chose this location because the house is similar modern day based house which has been chose it the film; When a Stranger Calls. This house we chose to film in has similar features to what you would find in a horror film.





The rest of these pictures will be where most of our opening scene footage will take place, we have chose to base in inside a house because we got a few ideas from the film 'The Strangers'. In the bathroom will be the firsrt sight you see of the killer in our opening scene. Most of the other pictures you will see throughout the opening from where the character search the house due to them hearing noises in the house.



These are the pictures for our back-up location





These locations will only be used if we can not film in the other locations we have chose.

The Art of The Title Sequence - Se7en

For part of our research for our own Horror genre film opening we looked at the film 'Se7en' as a Group. We believe that the opening to this film is very effective as it reveals little but key information throughout  it. This then 'hooks' the viewer, meaning that they want to watch the rest of the film. Throughout the title sequence it flickers between a black background to autopsy scene. This significantly connotes that somebody has died, automatically suggesting to the viewer that the film is from the horror genre. The timing is also key as this also helps to create tension and suspense for the viewer. The entire timing for the sequence is as follows:
2 Seconds - Book with pages open
6 Seconds - The words 'New line cinema presents' appears
9 Seconds - Distorted black and white photo of hands
13 Seconds - Close up of machinery
17 Seconds - Close up of fingers holding a piece of metal
20 Seconds - Black background with 'Morgan Freeman', an actor's name, written in white writing
24 Seconds - The title 'SE7EN' is revealed on a black background
29 Seconds - Close up of the front cover of the book
33 Seconds - Close up of the book with writing
36 Seconds - Close up of someone writing upside down
38 Seconds - Close up with red filter of a black and white photo
42 Seconds - Black background with 'John C. McGinly', an actors name, written in white writing
45 Seconds - Plain paper, square paper, and some photos. Two fingers touching the photo on the top of the file
49 Seconds - Close up of a black and white photo of a face
56 Seconds - Black background with cast names written in white writing that randomly flashes
1 Minute, 1 Second - Close up of someone writing in black ink and then smudging with their finger
1 Minute, 7 Seconds - Writing that's been printed, word crossed out with black marker
1 Minute, 12 Seconds - Cast names edited in over black and white photo of male face with the eyes crossed out with a marker pen
1 Minute, 19 Seconds - Negative film's with a finger holding them and placing them inbetween pages
1 Minute, 26 Seconds - 'Production Designed' written in white writing over a close up of dirty and bandaged fingers
1 Minute, 31 Seconds - Close up of a black and white photo of male and female's faces
1 Minute, 38 Seconds - Close up of the tips of dirty finger's with a needle between them

1 Minute, 47 Seconds - Finger tips binding paper with thread

1 Minute, 54 Seconds - 'Written by Andrew Kevin Walker' written in white writing with books in the background

1 Minute, 57 Seconds - Black and white photos in the book

2 Minutes, 8 Seconds - Film begins - buildings and inter-title 'Monday' written in white writing

Production Company Logo Research

As research I decided to look at other company's logo's to see if I could find any good ideas for mine. Most of the production logo's these days are animated to make them look better.

Horror Research: The Mask

We got the idea of using the mask for our main character from a variety of different films such as, 'The Strangers, Freddy vs Jason, Texas chainsaw massacre'. We decided to go with this idea because it would hide away the villains face and make it more of a fright to the audience.  As known it has been successful in these films to scared the character within the film and audience we have decided to go with this idea.

Preliminary Task Photo's

These photo's are to show someone walking through a door to start a conversation between two people whilst pictures in different shots are being taken.

Mid-shot of Ashleigh walking up to the door

Mid-shot of Ashleigh about to open the door

Close-up on Ashleigh's hand opening the door

 

Mid-shot of Ashleigh walking through the door

Long shot of ashleigh entering the room from a different angle

Match on action was then used again to see her walking up to Charlie

The camera was the positioned in the 180 degree position, recording a mid-shot of Charlie 

Then it moved to a close up on Charlie's face

Shot reverse shot was used during this conversation as it turned to a close up on Ashleigh.

Shot reversed shot was also used at the end of the conversation going back to a mid-shot on Charlie

Preliminary Task

In this task we had to record a scene based on anything that we decided on as a group, we mainly had to focus on three different types of features :

• Match on action
• Shot reverse shot
• 180 degree rule