Tuesday 23 November 2010
Plan
Here are the the shot list for our trailer and the days which shots will filmed together
Day 1
Day 1
Filming shots 1-14, 25, 32
School shot
Five actors actors walking
Bloody hand print
Halloween party flyer
Coin flip
Group around the Table
Day 2
House scenes 16, 18, 19-30
Day 3
Party scenes 17 and 15
Friday 5 November 2010
Treatment
The film begins on halloween with a shot of the bustling school entrance. We then meet the five main characters Jordan, Alex, Gavin, Nessa and Katie as they walk through the school grounds. It is Friday and Alex produces a leaflet that he has been "given" about a local halloween party taking place that night. The teenagers are indecisive about whether to go so they go to the common room and flip a coin. Katie says "Heads we stay in and watch a movie, tails we go to the party." Alex flips the coin and it lands on tails. The bell goes and they all go home after planning to meet at 9 to go to the party together.
At 9 o'clock they all meet at the corner of a street, it's dark. Katie and Nessa are there first and then Gavin, Alex and Jordan arrive separately. They walk to the party, the front door is open so they walk straight inside, shutting the door behind them.
They all walk into the packed main room and Katie, Jordan and Gavin go straight to the other side of the room to get drinks. Alex and Nessa stand on the other side and mingle. Nessa is holding her phone, she outs it down for a moment to look in her bag. When she looks up again her phone is gone. She just assumes that it has been stolen by someone at the party and isn't too bothered because it was cheap.
Moments later, out of sight and on the other side of the room, Gavin receives a call from Nessa's phone number. Gavin, Jordan and Katie are unaware that Nessa's phone has gone missing at this time. Gavin answers the phone and hears crackling and indistinct whispering. Assuming that it is Nessa and he just doesn't have signal, Gavin goes to the door to get outside. The door is locked, he tries another door, it is also locked, he then tries a window which is also locked.
Gavin tells Jordan and Katie that they are locked in. They feel a little uneasy and try to tell other party-goers. Everyone brushes them off in a trance-like fashion and carries on dancing.
And then the lights come on. But the audience can see that the light switch is off. There is dead silence. Katie is still at the light switch. "Hold on! This switch is actually off!" Turns around to see that everyone else has gone and the other four are in a state of shock. Katie: "Where's everyone just cleared to?"
Nessa goes up stairs. "I need to use the bathroom." She opens the bathroom door. She sees Gavin lying face down in the bath with the shower on. "Gavin! Oh my God!" She pulls him slightly over. His face is completely deformed. Blood is dripping from his neck. All of a sudden she notices a large pool of blood in the bath. She screams: "Everyone come upstairs." Everyone attends. He tries to speak but he can't. They pick him up and take him to a bedroom. They lie him on the bed. They try to stop the bleeding with the bedsheets. He still can't speak. "What happened?" Then he dies.
Alex runs to the bathroom and throws up. Then when he looks back up in the mirror he sees a black silhouette behind him. He turns around straight away so it's only there for a split second and there's nothing behind him. He feels scared but he doesn't tell any of the others because he thinks it's all in his head.
They all go back into the living room to discuss what they are going to do next. Alex says that he's going to try to get some signal. And Katie says she's going to see if there's anyone else left in the house. Nessa is having a panic attack so Jordan stays and looks after her.
Cut to Katie walking through the corridor looking into rooms.
Cut to Alex walking into the bedroom. Sees a window a bit open but it's second storey so he can't jump out. He sits on the ledge and leans out of the window and he gets signal. He calls Tom who he saw at the party. "Tom! Where did you go?!".
"What do you mean Alex?" Alex then asks why everyone left the party and why they locked the five in. Tom explains that he was never at any party. Alex feels a sharp pain in his back, he slips and drops the phone out of the window before he can ask for help. He then makes his way back to the others in the living room.
Cut back to Katie looking into rooms. She enters a bedroom and sees someone sitting on a bed with their back to her. They are wearing a hood so it is unclear who they are... She walks towards the person and grabs their shoulder. The person turns around, their face is hidden, and they thrust the blade through her neck. They hold it there for approximately two seconds and then slice to the right out of her throat, leaving her neck dangling to the side half on.
Cut to Alex entering the living room as Nessa gets up to look for Katie as she is worried about her. She leaves the room.
Nessa screams, Alex and Jordan both run into the bedroom to see what has happened, Katie is in a pool of her own blood.
Jordan: OMG
He runs out the room to the living room and the rest follow him. Alex is the last to enter and locks the door without anyone noticing
Alex: Ok what the hell is happening?
Nessa: who is doing this what have we done (crying and hugging Jordan)
Jordan: did you get reception
Alex: yeh i called Tom but dropped the phone
Jordan: (Jordan eyes widen in disbelief) how on earth did you manage that
Alex: look at this (lifts up his shirt to see burn mark) something burned me and made me drop the phone, whoever or whatever is doing this is stopping us from getting in contact with anyone else.
Nessa: How the hell could you drop the phone what's wrong with you?! That was our only way to get out and now we're stuck, you probably did it on purpose
Alex: WHAT are you trying to say? That I’m doing this?
The group start to argue and accuse each other. Jordan finds a bloody hand print on the wall – "Hey guys look at this!"
Alex: it must be the killers, so whoever's hand fits must be the killer
Everyone hesitates as no one wants to go first. Alex goes first, then Jordan, then Nessa. Nessa's hand fits.
Jordan: Nessa??
Alex: it makes sense now, you found the bodies, and you started accusing people
Nessa: it wasn’t me I swear
Alex: she’s lying
Nessa: Jordan you know me, why would I do this, Katie’s my best friend
Jordan: I don’t know, you did find Katie and at the party i got a phone call from you
Nessa: what phone call? I lost my phone at the party
Alex: what did the person say?
Jordan: I didn’t hear it properly, it wasn’t clear, that's when all this stuff started happening
Alex: it makes sense now, you found the bodies, and you started accusing people
Nessa: it wasn’t me I swear
Alex: she’s lying
Nessa: Jordan you know me, why would I do this, Katie’s my best friend
Jordan: I don’t know, you did find Katie and at the party i got a phone call from you
Nessa: what phone call? I lost my phone at the party
Alex: what did the person say?
Jordan: I didn’t hear it properly, it wasn’t clear, that's when all this stuff started happening
Alex and Jordan gang up on Nessa. Jordan and alex convince themselves that it was Nessa.
Jordan: we've got to kill her
Alex: what?!
Jordan: whatever's or whoever's making her do this, is going to kill us too!
Jordan and alex talk and decide that they have got to kill her.
Nessa: no, please it wasn't me
Jordan: stop lying, your hand fits you found gavin and katie and you made that phone call.
Alex picks up Nessa and ties her to a chair with some cable from the TV. Jordan and alex discuss how they are going to do it, Alex convinces Jordan to do it some how. Nessa still pleads with them to stop and is trying get away. She manages to untangle herself and gets up and picks up and smashes a bottle.
Alex: look she trying to kill us
Jordan walks towards her she stabs him in the arm, Jordan uses a chair to repeatly hit her until she is dead. Jordan goes towards Alex to tell him that Nessa is dead, Alex turns around and his eyes are black, Jordan realises that something is wrong with him.
Alex looks at the hand prints and so does Jordan. The handprint changes shape and Alex puts his hand on it, it fits.
Jordan realises that Alex is the real kill and he is possessed with something, he tries to leave the room but the door is locked. Alex charges at him, he misses and smashes down the door. Jordan runs out the room and Alex chases him.
Jordan picks up a corkscrew to defend himself and alex runs towards him. He jabs him in the eye. Alex grabs his eyes and falls to his knees and Jordan runs out of the room.
Cut back to Alex. Alex gets up. He thinks Jordan has gone outside so he unlocks the front door to look for him. Jordan isn't outside so Alex runs back into the house and runs upstairs. He gets to the top step and Jordan jumps out and pushes Alex down the stairs. He then pushes a chest of draws down and it lands on him. Alex is dead.
Jordan sees the front door open runs out. The film end with a front view of Jordan running down the street.
Wednesday 3 November 2010
Horror Trailer Analysis
Having watched some horror trailers I was then able to tally the types of shots and camera movement and have represented them as bar charts, I was also able to comment on the sound, horror iconography and any issues of representation. The four trailers I looked at were; the anti-Christ, the fourth kind, nightmare on Elm Street and the crazies and the information I found is be below.
The Anti-Christ
Sound Significant dialogue Love, “what are you most afraid of...the woods”
Music: Harmonic opera music, a choir
Other noises: Panting, snapping sticks and animal cries
Horror iconography Girl in toilet, woods, darkness, house in the middle of the woods (isolation), Satan, anti-Christ and screaming
Issues of representation
Man has authority, vulnerable woman, sex and baby crying
The Fourth kind
SoundSignificant dialogue “staring at me”, “what you’re about the see is extremely disturbing”, “an owl” actress speaks as actress
Music: airy soft sounds, silence, high pitch screeching and loud drum beat
Other sounds: camera turning on and off, screaming and scratching
Horror Iconography True story recreated and real footage shown, isolated area, cabin in mountains, aliens and abductions, ancient links, legends.
Issues of representations Curious female, strong female, male victims and final girl theory
Nightmare on elm street
SoundSignificant dialogue: “anyone here”, casual chat, more talk about capture and nightmare
Music: metallic clanging sound, heavy drum beat getting faster
Other noises: fire, thunder, Banging and clanging and screaming
Horror Iconography Isolation, hallucinations (unknown), child, unknown person, hospital, phallus shaped objects
Issues of representations Men cope with it better, screaming girl-male gaze
The Crazies
Sound Music: Mad world by Gary Jules, airy quite soft song and a drum beat getting faster
Other noises: fire, screaming, gunshot and a silence
Horror Iconography: Trail of blood, no signal on phones- no connection with the outside world, mysterious character walking into a field, fire, zombie, a community event turned bad
Issues of representation: Dominant male characters, husband turns on his family-male gaze
Having completed this analysis of horror trailer, there a certain things traits that are common in all the horror trailers. the most common camera movements was moves away,moves nearer and moves down. i think these three were are most common in horror films because these moves create more intensity in the trailer. moves nearer may be used to make the viewer notice something they wouldn't have from a distance, moves away can be used to show the surroundings which may be shocking and moves downs may be used to show a how far away the characters are from contact and this was what i found the camera movements were often used for in the horror trailers i saw.
The Anti-Christ
Sound Significant dialogue Love, “what are you most afraid of...the woods”
Music: Harmonic opera music, a choir
Other noises: Panting, snapping sticks and animal cries
Horror iconography Girl in toilet, woods, darkness, house in the middle of the woods (isolation), Satan, anti-Christ and screaming
Issues of representation
Man has authority, vulnerable woman, sex and baby crying
The Fourth kind
SoundSignificant dialogue “staring at me”, “what you’re about the see is extremely disturbing”, “an owl” actress speaks as actress
Music: airy soft sounds, silence, high pitch screeching and loud drum beat
Other sounds: camera turning on and off, screaming and scratching
Horror Iconography True story recreated and real footage shown, isolated area, cabin in mountains, aliens and abductions, ancient links, legends.
Issues of representations Curious female, strong female, male victims and final girl theory
Nightmare on elm street
SoundSignificant dialogue: “anyone here”, casual chat, more talk about capture and nightmare
Music: metallic clanging sound, heavy drum beat getting faster
Other noises: fire, thunder, Banging and clanging and screaming
Horror Iconography Isolation, hallucinations (unknown), child, unknown person, hospital, phallus shaped objects
Issues of representations Men cope with it better, screaming girl-male gaze
The Crazies
Sound Music: Mad world by Gary Jules, airy quite soft song and a drum beat getting faster
Other noises: fire, screaming, gunshot and a silence
Horror Iconography: Trail of blood, no signal on phones- no connection with the outside world, mysterious character walking into a field, fire, zombie, a community event turned bad
Issues of representation: Dominant male characters, husband turns on his family-male gaze
Having completed this analysis of horror trailer, there a certain things traits that are common in all the horror trailers. the most common camera movements was moves away,moves nearer and moves down. i think these three were are most common in horror films because these moves create more intensity in the trailer. moves nearer may be used to make the viewer notice something they wouldn't have from a distance, moves away can be used to show the surroundings which may be shocking and moves downs may be used to show a how far away the characters are from contact and this was what i found the camera movements were often used for in the horror trailers i saw.
The types of shots that was frequently used were medium shot and close ups. close up are used very often in horror trailers because they create a sense of uneasiness. Also Long shots were often used to show isolation in the trailers i watched.
The sound in the horror trailers were usually airy, slow which got faster as more was revealed also there was usually a repetitive drumming beat.
Icon horror features in the trailers were blood, isolation and darkness these are common in horror trailers because they use actual fears people have and intensifying them making them even more scary. what i found which is not often used in horror trailers was in the fourth kind the actress spoke as an actress this was used to make it seem more realist as the film.
Tuesday 2 November 2010
The disappearance of Nemo
Finding Nemo is a computer animation and is a film for children, and comes under the genre of children's animation. its about a dad clownfish finding his son clownfish (nemo) and it follows the dads and sons attempts to get back together and they funny caring friends they met along they way. Having been researching horror films and trailer as research for my horror trailer i came across this mash-up of two films finding nemo and the disappearance of alice creed called the disappearance of nemo, which made finding nemo look like a thriller.
Here are the trailers for finding nemo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGlI4qnSLg and the disappearance of alice creed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUaHsNNAMZM
By watching the two different trailer and they are shown in a completely different way, finding nemo is more friendly shows the adventure where as the disappearance of alice creed shows a struggle and suffering of the story. by watching the mash-up it makes nemo seem like a thriller, it does this by using more intense sound such as door slamming, the telephone calls and heavy breathing giving it more of a horror film. also more scenes with close up were used and there are quicker cuts and cut to black as usually in adventure films there are less cuts but moe fades and by more cuts it making the trailer look more trilling. This mash-up shows that films general use many similar scenes but show then in different order and and uses different background sound, and this can make a film seem very different.
Here are the trailers for finding nemo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGlI4qnSLg and the disappearance of alice creed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUaHsNNAMZM
By watching the two different trailer and they are shown in a completely different way, finding nemo is more friendly shows the adventure where as the disappearance of alice creed shows a struggle and suffering of the story. by watching the mash-up it makes nemo seem like a thriller, it does this by using more intense sound such as door slamming, the telephone calls and heavy breathing giving it more of a horror film. also more scenes with close up were used and there are quicker cuts and cut to black as usually in adventure films there are less cuts but moe fades and by more cuts it making the trailer look more trilling. This mash-up shows that films general use many similar scenes but show then in different order and and uses different background sound, and this can make a film seem very different.
Basic outline of horror story
5 friends get invited to a party at school (they are given a leaflet). They discuss whether or not they should go to the party or stay home and watch scary films. They can't decide so they flip a coin, heads stay home, tails: they go to the party.
The party is on the night 31st october. When the party is in full swing they split into 2 groups (3 and 2) from one of the group, one of their phones go missing and then someone else in the other group gets a phone call from the person who phone goes missing and there is a weird sound on the other side, thinking it's bad reception they try to go outside to find that all the doors are locked. They try all the doors and windows but they are locked in. They try to tell all the party goers but they dont pay them any attention. the lights go out and then everyone disappears and then there are only the five people left. they realise that one of them is missing and go looking for them. they find them dying and they frantically panic. As there is no reception for mobile signals or any communciation to the outside world they try to help the person dying but consequently they die. One of then then go to the bathroom to be sick and when they are washing there face and look onto the mirror they see a figure in the mirror they turn around and nothing is there (the figure is the possession but the person doesn't know it) They decide to split up. One goes looking for other people, another goes tries to go and get reception and the other two stay put because one of them is panicking. The person going to look for other people see something sitting you can only see the back of their head they tap the shoulder and it a person then it grabs its hand and kills them with an axe, the person trying to get signal finds a window finally talks to a friend they saw at the party and ask them where did you go and they have no idea what they are talking about and dont know anything about a party. they some how drop the phone and they find the on their back they have some sought of evidence they have been pushed. The two people who who are together, one of them goes looking for the others because they have been gone for a long time he/she screams from from seeing the dead body. the other two rush to them and find the dead body, they then come to the conclusion that the killer has to be one of them, and then assume that the killer is the person who found the second body, the other two decide to kill the accused killer before he/she tries and kills them. they tie the accused killer to a chair and kill them brutally. Then out of the two left we find out that the killer is not the friend they just killed but one of the two the people left. They two struggle to kill each other and finally the possessed one is killed by the last person left.
THE END
The party is on the night 31st october. When the party is in full swing they split into 2 groups (3 and 2) from one of the group, one of their phones go missing and then someone else in the other group gets a phone call from the person who phone goes missing and there is a weird sound on the other side, thinking it's bad reception they try to go outside to find that all the doors are locked. They try all the doors and windows but they are locked in. They try to tell all the party goers but they dont pay them any attention. the lights go out and then everyone disappears and then there are only the five people left. they realise that one of them is missing and go looking for them. they find them dying and they frantically panic. As there is no reception for mobile signals or any communciation to the outside world they try to help the person dying but consequently they die. One of then then go to the bathroom to be sick and when they are washing there face and look onto the mirror they see a figure in the mirror they turn around and nothing is there (the figure is the possession but the person doesn't know it) They decide to split up. One goes looking for other people, another goes tries to go and get reception and the other two stay put because one of them is panicking. The person going to look for other people see something sitting you can only see the back of their head they tap the shoulder and it a person then it grabs its hand and kills them with an axe, the person trying to get signal finds a window finally talks to a friend they saw at the party and ask them where did you go and they have no idea what they are talking about and dont know anything about a party. they some how drop the phone and they find the on their back they have some sought of evidence they have been pushed. The two people who who are together, one of them goes looking for the others because they have been gone for a long time he/she screams from from seeing the dead body. the other two rush to them and find the dead body, they then come to the conclusion that the killer has to be one of them, and then assume that the killer is the person who found the second body, the other two decide to kill the accused killer before he/she tries and kills them. they tie the accused killer to a chair and kill them brutally. Then out of the two left we find out that the killer is not the friend they just killed but one of the two the people left. They two struggle to kill each other and finally the possessed one is killed by the last person left.
THE END
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