Film Ideas

Idea One

• A family suddenly dies in the house 25 years ago and since then no one has ever entered the house.
• The house is big and scary and because the family died altogether so suddenly the rumour is that is it haunted.
• Due to the above point the house has never been sold, until now.
• A large family see the house and ignore the rumours and move in.
• Nothing goes wrong and everyone is happy.
• Living at the house is the parents, twins (10 years old, boy and a girl), 3 boys (3, 5, 7 years old), 1 girl (few months old) and a family dog.
• The main characters are the parents and the twin.
• One of the twins starts to see the kids with blood on their faces that use to live there.
• After a while the twin starts to play and talk to the children.
• They find out how the family died due to the mother having an affair, and because of this the father kills the sons then his wife and hangs them in the living before killing himself.
• Weird things start to happen at the house to the children
• The twin warns the parents about what will happen, but they do not understand.
• Things to start get weird such as the mirrors breaking, doors slamming shut as if it is a ghost.
• The child get badly injured and is in hospital, due to this the parents start to worry
• The parents bring a holy man to the house to perform a ceremony to get the evil out, through the time the evil makes it difficult for them to proceed.
• At the end the evil is out of the house, the child gets out of the hospital and they move house for a new beginning.

Idea 2

A couple have been married for three years and the husband dies in a car accident. At the hospital he tries to tell her something but he dies before finishing his sentence off. After a few weeks still curious of what he wanted to tell her, she uses a weegie board to contact her dead husband. Instead she disturbs another soul and it doesn't leave her alone and always alerts her that she is not alone. Towards the middle of the movie she finds more about the soul she disturbed. The little girl that was not letting her live in peace was sexually assaulted by her father and then died by committing suicide. She wanted justice and she wanted her father to be sent to prison. For this to happen she wanted her to show the police her diary and other things to find her father guilty. At the end of the film the soul leaves after receiving justice and the little girl helps her find out what her husband wanted to say. There are parts of the movie were she sees her husband in the form of a ghost.

Idea 3

College is over and a group of 6 plan to spend a few weeks in a private island. When they get to the island, they come prepared and have enough food to keep them going. The first few nights were really good and they had loads of fun. But the fun never lasted, things started to get missing such as belongings, food and then it was the boat. When it was night they use to sleep near the beach and one time when they were in search for wood for the fire, they entered the woods. At the night in the woods, they heard a noises and see shadows. When it was morning they see footprints on the floor, and the footprints do not belong to any human or any animal present at the woods. This is really weird and they think it is someone messing around. But slowly one by one they die by an inhumanly monster. The monster kills them in a disturbing way and towards the end they try to escape but there is no boat and they start to receive there friends body one by one, and this frightened them a lot. At the end they finally make a boat that help the last two leave the island and are found by a sailor who takes them back home. When they get home they remember that they only seen three of there friends body and was curious that maybe there forth friend maybe still alive. But the character spoke to soon as he opens his bad, he can smell a horrible rotten smell. He finds half of his friend in his suitcase and the other half is in the other suitcase

Preliminary Exercise/ Feedback

The above image is my story board for my preliminary exercise

My Preliminary Clip

Clip the adove title to go to my Preliminary Clip

Preliminary Exercise Storyline

In my preliminary task I used to character one boy and one girl. The boy who was in my task had a role of a local gangsta, the girl had a role of a unknown frightened reporter. The storyline for this particular scene was that the boy named Tank goes to visit the girl called Hannah at her office. He comes into the office to see her and after a short conversations he leaves with a tape in his hand. The short conversation is about Tank wanting a tape from Hannah, on the tape it has recording of him taking drugs from someone. Tank doesn't want any one to see it, so he takes the tape so he can destroy it and then there will be no evidence of him buying and selling drugs.

I only used one location that was the classroom in the college, this was meant to look like the reporter office.

Camera Angles and Movement

In my scene I used many different types of angle movement that were close ups, long shot, over the shoulder shot and shot reverse shot. I used close ups to show the characters facial expressions, to create tension when Tank knocked on the door also to show the audience that the object that I have done a close up to has an importance in the scene. I did a close up on the tape to show the audience that this object has an importance in the scene, because Tank the actor wants the tape. When the character Tank walks in and out of the room I used long shot. I used the camera angle over the shoulder shot when they were sitting down having a conversation. Also I used was the shot reverse shot when Tank walked in and out of the room.

180 degree rule

The above picture is to show the 180 degree rule, this is a key point in a scene, without doing this right you can confuse the audience to were the characters are looking. This when the camera can only be used be half of the room.

Filming
My first attempt I never used a tripod and just used the camera. I thought I did well but when we watched it back in class I realised that I didn't follow the 180 degree rule and this confused my class. With the feedback I received I made another attempt, and in my second attempt I used a tripod and I followed the 180 degree rule and it was a success. In both attempts I would first position my characters and tell them what to say, after I would do a practise shot then I would record. I only did one take of each shot this is because of this scene we never done any editing.

Comments received on Attempt One

1. The storyline worked well with the match on action.
2. I failed to follow the 180 degree rule.
3. At one point the camera moved, due to I was holding the camera and never used a tripod.
4. Shot-reverse-shot worked well with the scene and how it was done was good.
5. The different types of shot was good.

Changes I made to create my attempt two were due to the feedback that was I followed the 180 degree rule (number 2) and I used a tripod so the camera doesn't shake (number 3).

Comments received on attempt 2

1. The camera didn't move.
2. The characters were really good, as they kept a straight face.
3. I included the 180 degree rule.

My thoughts of the Preliminary Exercise

I am happy that I received my feedback because if I didn't then maybe I wouldn't have noticed the two areas that I failed at, even though my first attempt was not accurate but at least my last attempt was. I found it easy to think of a quick storyline and setting for my task because I enjoy that part of the task as well as doing everything else.

When I got my camera off Paula I looked for my characters and went straight to film my scene. When I was filming it was hard to instruct my characters on how to act, it took long for a few scenes because they kept laughing or getting the words confused. That's how come I kept doing each scene stopping, practising then filming.

I was really pleased with the finishing of my preliminary task and if I had a chance to do it again I would have used a office rather than a classroom.

Research on Thriller and Horror

Sometimes people get confused of what is the difference between horror and thriller. The main key difference is the codes and conventions such as horror is more blood and thriller is more surprises/cliff-hangers. Thriller movies are normally taken place in exciting places, busy cities or even in a forign country. These are fast pacing and the action taken place is done quickly.

Sub-genre
There is not just one type of thriller, there are many sub-genre thrillers that have been listed below. Most thrillers are 12Aa, 15 and 18 this is because the scenes that are not suitable for people under these ages. This is due to violence and disturving scenes.
1). Action Thriller
Action thriller consists of violence, action, race against time, guns explosions and much more. This genre combines with action as well as thriller, this genre is usually a 12A. The common action thrillers are listed below;

1. Death Race
2. James Bond films
3. The Dark Knight

2). Crime Thriller

Crime thriller are popular to watch as it features murders, robberies, chase, and shootouts. This is maily liked by men more then woman that is the sterotype that is given. The crime focus on the criminal views not the police officers and each scene builds up to more to a tension and suspence climax. Below are well known crime thriller movies;

1. The Godfather
2. The Bank Job
3. Batman

The above image shows that thriller movies are more popular than horror and romantic comedy. Sherlock Holmes is the second one on the list that is a thriller movie, Romantic Comedy is the forth on the list called It's Complicated and horror is the seventh one on the list called Daybreakers.

HORROR

Horror is enjoyed by nearly every one and the codes and conventions are clear enough to know the difference between any genre. Horror has sub-genres such as Psycholgical horror, Fantasty (supernatural) horror, slasher (serial killers/ teen) horror. They are the main sub-horror.

• Slasher (serial killers/ teen) horror

This horror is enjoyed by many and most of the films have got a part 2 and even more. This focuses around a serial killer and most of the time the victim is a teenager. These types of films are like Saw and Halloween.

• Psychological horror

This is mainly a female role that is the main character and usually is based on realistic events. It focus on tention rather than the the gore adn graphic horror.

• Fantasy (supernatural) horror

This horror is supernatural but still tends to frighten the audience. Once again it is common for a female to be in the Central to the event. Supernatural refers to vampires, ghosts, demons and spirts. The films that go under this sub-genre are The Ring, The Grudge and The Omen.

Horror are designed to frighten and to raise our unknown most unpleasant fears often in a terrifying shocking way. Whilst entertaining use as at the same time.

Box Office

Films on release in the UK by genre, 2007.

This shows that Comedy is a well-known and liked genre this is because the target audience isn't limited like horror and thriller. Comedy can be seen by any age and gender. Horror is not a popular choice like the other genres but still enjoyed by various people.

Analysis of The Questionnaire

1). How old are you?

I have used four different age groups from young as 15 years old to above 31, to gain an equal result. I have given 24 questionnaire out and have divided them up by 6 questionnaire to each age group.

2). What gender are you?

I wanted to conduct a fair questionnaire and receive feedback from both genders to have done this I have give 12 questionnaire to each gender.

3). Which genre would you prefer to watch?

I only had three boxes that were horror, thriller and other. The people that selected other wrote action, comedy, fantasy and adventure. From the results it shows that thriller was a popular genre to watch. This has made me realise that I am going to choose thriller as my genre because my audience would prefer this.

4). How many times in a month do you watch your chosen genre?

This doesn't help my research but it does show that my audience does watch the movie frequently.

5). What do you expect to see in a horror movie?

This results showed that people expect to see blood for it to be in the dark and be able to hear creepy music. They do not expect as much to see an old house or an unnatural monster.

6). What do you expect to see in a thriller movie?

This shows that people expect to see in a thriller action, crime, conspiracy an murder not much of political or disasters. The three expected areas are linked together and are easy combined.

7). What is your favourite horror movie?

In this question I never done this as multi-choice because I wanted to see which films the audience would like to watch. The three I got the most was Saw, Paranormal Activity and Orphan this would help me with my video as I will watch all the movies and see what is common and what I could use for my video.

8). What is your favourite thriller movie?

In this question I never done this as multi-choice because I wanted to see which films the audience would like to watch. The one I got the most was Bourne Trilogy. This would help me with my video as I will watch all the movies and see what is common and what I could use for my video.