Genre Analysis

The killer in horror films look the same almost all the time. For example, they are always dark and mysterious and majority of them are always wearing masks. In films like, 'Halloween', 'Scream' and 'Friday the 13th' are just some of the horror movies that include knives as a murder weapon. Most other films include different weapons such as a chainsaw (Texas Chainsaw Massacre). Other films don't even use weapons, for example in 'The Conjuring' doesn't incluse any weapons, also you don't see anyone die, they tell you about people dying but you don't in fact see people getting killed. In other films such as 'Final Destination' it involves many different deaths, for example, 2 people die in a roller coaster crash.  

Most horror films are set in an old fashioned house, which always looks rather spooky. Films like 'Friday the 13th' and 'Cabin in the Woods' are set in the middle of the woods and in a cabin. However, you get some movies that are in houses that are more modern than you would expect, for example 'Insidious' and 'Sinister' are set in modern houses, this could suggest that not all horror movies need to be set in a mysterious house. Other horror films are not even set in houses, for example some horror films such as 'Grave Encounters' is set in an old asylum this is showing all places can be scary. 

The majority of horror films relate to each other. For example, most of the time it is always about paranormal activity around their house, or a killer on the lose. Majority of horror films include teenagers or groups of teenagers and they stumble across a killer or they are in a haunted house. Horror movies will always include more than one teenager\adult that come across a mysterious house or a killer and most will include police, or ghost hunters.

I think the most common theme in horror movies would be deaths, I think they use death a lot because it scares people the most. The other common theme I think would be paranormal, I think its common because it entertains the audience because of it being jumpy. It's a good thing that is actually scares the audience because then it is a successful horror film.

The structure of horror films are quite similar. The always tend to start off slow and letting the audience know about all the characters and the surroundings. A little bit into the movie they will notice some kind of problem for example, in 'Insidious' a little boy doesn't wake up and doctors don't know what it is, when actually he is lost in another world. Some horror films such as 'The Conjuring' uses flashbacks, I think they use flashbacks because it makes the films more dramatic. In 'The Conjuring' it shows the two ghost hunters lives and introduces you to a doll called Annabelle which is based on a true story.

Not many horror films tend to use actual music, they often use just sounds which are used in the jumpy parts of the films because it will make the audience jump twice as much as they would to if there wasn't any sound. In films like 'Sinister' and 'Insidious' it is all silent but then when the demon comes on the screen it plays a loud bang which is giving it effect. The sounds are very hard to shock the audience.

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Opening Titles

Detailed Analysis of Opening Sequences

Edward Scissorhands - The film Edward Scissorhands’ opening titles are showing you round the castle that Edward lives in and shows you various inventions that will come up during the movie. The music fits the film very well I think because the music sounds like you’re in a fantasy, which is relevant to the film due to it being a fantasy film. At the beginning of the titles it will show you the director and then shows you the name of the film and this is showing people at the beginning that this is a Tim Burton film (the director).  Also when the title of the film comes up it will begin to separate which is laying it out as though they are scissors, which is giving it out that the film is about scissors.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - In the opening titles for Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street it is all dark and mysterious and it is all computer generated. While going through all the peoples names it will show you images that are about the film such as; the barber chair, tray of pies etc. At the beginning it also does a pan shot of old London and it raining and sometimes you will get glances of rain drops that are actually blood so it will give away that this film has something to do with blood and also that the film is most likely going to be gory.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 - In the opening sequence for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 it begins with a white screen and the production name in an old fashioned red font which could resemble blood, after about 3 seconds it changed to a more pure font, like a modern white font, which is like cold. This would suggest that the girl in the film had pumping blood round her body but now she is a vampire she has turned cold. Also during the opening sequence it shows different long shots of the nature around the little town the film is based on, and all of them are white but then turn into blood, this could do this because she is hungry for blood so its went from all white and pure to red and evil.

Ready or Not Rough Cut No.3

Ready or Not Rough Cut No.2

History of Horror Genre

The Brief

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanged a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidates, with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks may be done by individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group.

G321 - Props and Equipment list/images

Props And Equipment List from sianholland

Ready or Not Rough Cut

G321 - Ready or Not - Animatic

G321 - Risk Assessment

G321 - Treatment Sheet

Ready or not from caitlinndonnelly

Audience Research Survey Analysis

We created a survey to find out more information about the general film audience from caitlinndonnelly

G321 - Shooting Schedule

G321 - Company Logo

G321 - Call Sheet

Call sheet from sianolivia

G321 - Logo

G321 - Recce Shots

G321 - Audience Research Questionnaire

G321 - Logo Mood Board

Movie production mood board from caitlinndonnelly

G321 - Ready or Not - Mind Map

G321 - Ready or Not - Script

G321 - Storyboard

Storyboard from caitlinndonnelly

Taken Cover

G321 Project - Ready or Not

Unknown mini movie

G321 - Project

Opening Title Movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxQfb9uGGE - Ready or not opening sequence

Evaluation for Premilary Task

For my Premilary Task I made a less than 60 second movie clip. Our movie clip was named 'Unknown'.

I enjoyed this task because I thought it was good when we were filming different camera angles such as; long shot, close up, medium shot etc. While filming the mini movie I enjoyed all the different camera angles we got to do. 

I enjoyed editing the movie, I like editing videos and I think its good while editing the film to play it every time you add something to it or edit it so you are able to see if its good enough and if not you can see how to improve it and make it better.

The things I would do differently if I do this task again would be I would take more time with editing the movie and also I would take longer to film the clips so that it would be more detailed such as props etc. I would also be more steady when holding the camera so it doesn't shake around, to make it more better in the future I would use the tripod. 

Analysis of Taken

This is a medium shot while there is also a tracking shot of the girl on the phone. This shows that she doesn’t want to stay still so its as though she is very agitated while she is looking at something on her phone.

 It jumps cuts to a long shot of her walking away into another room.

This shows what she looks like and where she is. This shot could be to show that she is exiting this scene and about to start a new one.

There is another jump cut and it turns into a medium shot, of her looking panic in another tracking. This shows the panic on her face, while not showing her full body it shows her upper bodies shock, her arm gestures.

There is a medium shot of Nelson sitting in his chair, in a tracking shot he stands up as the camera zooms in on his shocked and pained expression.

This shot demonstrates how Nelson is panicked himself, he cannot relax, thus the shot represents.

The rest of the shots are medium shots as talk back and forth with tracking.

Then a girl gets attacked in a long shot, followed by close ups of the girls shocked expressions. Then a close up of Nelson grabbing a bag and throwing it out of the way.’

In this photo it is a close up of the girl looking very shocked as though something bad is happening while on the phone to her father. This is making us all wonder what is going on.

There is a medium tracking shot of him placing the briefcase on the table. And an extreme close up of him rummaging through rubbish in the brief case, to and a voice recorder, which in an close up of the recorder and he plugs in wires

There is then a medium shot of her running into the bedroom and hides 

Evaluation For Opie Task

For our task in media we had to take a photo of ourselves and put it on photoshop and colour it in using different layers based on Blurr's album by Julian Opie.

I liked this task because of all the different colours and tools we used to make our photos. the things I think I done well was that I found it easy to be able to add different layers and also that I had a steady hand while using the lasso tool to go round different features so it was rather neat. However, with more practice I think it would be neat, and also with more time.

I think if I was to do this task again I would take my time so it will be nicer and more accurate than my first attempt. the things I would do different would be I would do morw accurate colours for example my skin tone so it will be more realistic. I did really enjoy this task and I would do it again because it was fun and it wasd rather easy once I read through in the instructions and figured out all the tools. I hope when I try it again I will figure out more of the tools so my picture will turn out more creative.