Setting/Location: whilst researching horror films and looking at different horror film convection's and i looked at the typical type of locations you may find in a horror film for example isolated houses, woods & haunted houses etc. our horror films location is in a house and is set in a bedroom and a garden. in the above image you can see a young girl swinging on the chair this should be a quite normal thing for some but it creates a scary effect because keeps the audience wondering what is going to happen next. the next clip we see the character in a bed this is to make to audience feel uncomfortable as a bedroom is usually where most people take place, but in this case it is where the young girl goes crazy within the next few scenes.
Title: With our title we didn't really want a dramatic over the top title as that's not what you would usually see in a horror film. We decided to use a black background with white writing to create excitement on we got our inspiration from the title on the movie 'sinister' as it also has this simplicity to it and it doesn't give away to much of the movie.
Font & Style: We decided to choose a simple font size to match with the simplicity of the title.
costume/prop: as we did our research on horror film conventions we have released that the outfit and the colors of an outfit can really show the characters personality. we decided to dress our character in a pale white dress to suggest she is pure and vulnerable this converts the stereotype of a person being dressed in pale colors as our character is know where near pure or vulnerable. we made this decision so that the audience can get that creepy uncomfortable feeling whilst watching the film.
camerawork/editing: in the above image you can see a slight transition of Carolina from when she is sitting on the swing until when she is laying down in her bed. she decided to use this transition to show to the audience that everything that happened in the before clip was a dream. i believe the use of this transition was effective because it made the story line of our film more clear. throughout our film we tried to use a various amount of camera shots to create different meaning, we had a pan to help reveal our characters and this pan was used to make the audience feel uncomfortable because they are first being reveled to the characters in an unfortunate way. we also used close ups to show characters facial features and to try and portray how they are feeling.
story and how opening is set up: we wanted our opening to be very intriguing to our audience so we aimed to make it something that they will want to continue to watch, the main inspiration for our film was the film 'sinister' so we got an idea from the pan shot they had and made it our own because we thought it was very effective whilst showing a pan showing a different amount of shots of the young girl on the swing who killed them.
how characters are introduced: we introduced our characters in a various amount of ways. our main character Carolina was first introduced with a medium close up of her face her facial expressions were quite unclear on the start but this effect was effective because it will leave the audience wondering what is happening and what will happen next. we introduced the dead characters with a pan shot in which you could see their faces and it was clear that they were dead.
genre and how opening suggest it: the genre of our film is a mixture with a horror and mystery the opening of our film suggest that its a horror by the use of the spooky Eyre non dietetic sound which will make the audience feel nervous and leaving them wondering on what could happen next. there is also that darkness atmosphere in the scene.
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