Shooting script 2

Shot 1.
'Slasher Inc Presents' caption will be displayed on a black background with a cloud effect.

                                                                                            Sound: Non diegetic,haunting tone

Fades to:
Shot2. Exterior, High key lighting
Dolly shot of door opening at a long shot.

                                                                                            Sound: Non diegetic,haunting tone

Fades to:
Shot3.
The caption 'what if one night' will be displayed.

                                                                                                                 Sound: Non diegetic

Fades to:
Shot 4. Interior, High key lighting
Close up camera shot of victims hand chained to a bar.

                                                                                        Sound:Non diegetic, Ambient sound

Cut to:
Shot 5. Interior, Low key lighting
Cut-in shot of antagonist sharpening his weapon.

                                                                                                              Sound: Non diegetic

Fades to:
Shot 6. Exterior, High key lighting
Tracking shot of the antagonist sharpening his weapon.

 Sound: Non diegetic

Cut to:
Shot 7. Interior, Low key lighting
Close up shot and steadicam of a digging fork being scrapped across the floor by the antagonist while he walks towards his vitcim.

  Sound: Non diegetic, Ambient sound

Cut to:
Shot 8.
The caption 'Your darkest dreams' will be displayed.

 Sound: Non diegetic

Cut to:
Shot 9.Interior, Low key lighting
Close up shot of the antagonist attempting to handcuff the victim to a bar.

 Sound: Non diegetic, Ambient sound

Cut to:
Shot 10.Interior, Low key lighting
Close up shot of the victims finger on the antagonists scissors.

 Sound: Non diegetic

Cut to:
Shot 11.Interior, Low key lighting
Close up shot of the victim vigerously moving her hand whilst chained to the bar.

 Sound: Non diegetic, Ambient sound

Cut to:
Shot 12.Interior, Low key lighting
Close up shot of the victims finger being cut off  by the antagonists.

 Sound: Non diegetic, Foley sound effect

Cut to:
Shot 13.
The caption 'Came to reality' will be displayed.

 Sound: Non diegetic

Cut to:
Shot 14.Interior, Low key lighting
Medium shot and dolly camera movement of the antagonist walking towards the camera.

 Sound: Non diegetic

Cut to:
Shot 15.Interior, Low key lighting
Close up shot of the victim moving her hand whist chained to the bar.

 Sound: Non diegetic,Ambient sound

Cut to:
Shot 16.Interior, Low key lighting
Medium shot of the antagonist approaching the victim and placing his hand on her head.

 Sound: Non diegetic

Cut to:
Shot 17.Interior, Low key lighting
Medium shot and dolly camera movement of antagonist walking towards the camera.

 Sound: Non diegetic

Cut to:
Shot 18.Interior, Low key lighting
Medium close up of the antagonist holding up the victims head by her hair and looking at her.

 Sound: Non diegetic

Cut to:
Shot 19.Interior, Low key lighting
Close up shot of antagonist picking up the victims finger.

 Sound: Non diegetic

Cut to:
Shot 20.Interior, Low key lighting
Medium close up of antagonist twitching.

 Sound: victim scream

Cut to:
Shot 21.

The caption 'A beautiful nightmare' and 'Coming soon' will be displayed.

 Sound: Non diegetic

Cut to:
Shot 22.Interior, Low key lighting
Medium close up of the antagonist using his weapon to make a slash movement.

 Sound: Silence

Horror film title ideas

Above is a spider diagram of our groups title ideas for our horror film, we brainstormed all of our film title ideas and collectively decided to use 'A Beautiful Nightmare' for our film title because we thought it was the most appealing and appropriate title for our film.

Poster

Shooting script

Green screen:    

Shot 1.
The green screen is used in the beginning of the teaser trailer to show that the following preview has been approved by all audiences. 

                                                                                        

                                                                                                                     Sound: None

Slasher Inc logo: 

Shot  2.
Our groups company logo is briefly displayed                                                                                                                                  
                                                                       Sound: Non diegetic music,Haunting tone

                                                                                         

Fade to:

Shot 3.  Interior-Bedroom , Night, Low key lighting 
Medium close up, a panning shot of  Isabel turning over in her bed is used to follow her movements from the left to right side of her bed.
                                                                      Sound: Ambient sound, Non diegetic music

                                                                                                                                                                         
Cuts to:
Shot 4.  Interior-Stairs, Night, Low key lighting
Close up, the camera tilts up to show the antagonist slowly walking up the house stairs.
                                                                  Sound: Foley sound effect, Non diegetic music
                                                                                 
Cuts to:
Shot 5.  Interior-Bedroom, Night, Low key lighting
Medium close up of Isabel rapidly moving around the bed and suddenly opening her eyes.
                                                                     Sound: Ambient sound, Non diegetic music  


Cuts to:
Shot 6. Interior-Blue screen room, Night, Low key lighting
Steady cam of the antagonist slowly approaching Isabel.
                                                     Sound: Ambient sound, Non digetic, dialogue(screams)


Cuts to:
Shot 7.Interior-Blue screen room,Night, Low key lighting
Over the shoulder shot of the killer placing a weapon near Isabel's lips
                                                        Sound: Ambient sound, Non diegetic music, dialogue 


Cuts to: 
Shot 8.Interior-Blue screen room,Night, Low key lighting
Medium shot, Isabel gets pulled back from the chair. 
                                                                         Sound: Ambient sound, Non diegetic music 




Cuts to: 
Shot 9. Interior-bedroom,Night, Low key lighting
Medium close up, Isabel wakes up from her bed then gets dragged down by the antagonist.
                                                                                        Sound: Panting, Non digetic music


Cuts to:
Shot 10. Credits 

Location Recce

Bed used to show our victim sleeping

Stairs in which our killer walks up

In this location 'recce' we're showing where we filmed in our group members, Jouvan, house.
Whilst it may seem as if we haven't taken very many pictures this is because of the fact that we didn't film in very many places within the house. We used his bedroom for the main story and the stairs for a walking scene - hence the fact there is only 2 pictures.

Title audience research

Title 1: A Beautiful Nightmare
Title 2: A Beautiful Nightmare

I showed the two fonts above to 8 people to find out which font they would prefer to be used in my groups magazine and poster products. 'Title 1' received the majority of the votes with 6 out of 8 people voting for it. I used my audience research results to produce a graph which is below. From our audience feedback we decided to use 'Title 1' as our film title. 

Jouvan's textual analysis of a magazine

Empire magazine is a highly respected and popular British film magazine which has been regarded as the highest selling British film magazine. Empire magazine is published monthly by Bauer Media Group in areas all over the world such as Austria, Turkey, Russia and Portugal to name a few. The magazine cover I am analysing is Empires march 2011 edition which is centred on Captain America.

The main image is of Chris Evens who plays the character ‘Captain America’ in the film Captain America. Captain America is an iconic superhero who is a very popular superhero worldwide, mostly amongst the younger audience. The costumes in his outfit which uses the colours blue, red and white which are the colours of the American flag. Captain America is wearing props such as  gloves and the shield which connote authority and power. The lighting used is low key. 

Empire magazine uses a selling line which is a common convention used in many magazines today, selling lines are used to attract audiences and to provide the magazine with more recognition. The selling line used on the Empire magazine is ‘Magazine of the year’, this selling line can attract customers in buying the magazine as it is considered the magazine of the year which reassures them that their purchase is worthwhile. The selling line is written in bold capital grey letters and has a modern font with spaced out letters which provides creativity and uniqueness to the magazine.

Empires magazines masthead is positioned just below the magazines coverline and it follows many conventions by having its masthead at the top of the magazine front cover. The image below shows an example of another film magazine called Total Film which also follows magazine conventions by having their masthead positioned at the top of their magazine front cover. Empires magazines masthead is in large capital letters which fit across the magazine, the masthead text is in a modern font which appeals to its target audience which are of a young age as the magazine theme is about super heroes and the younger age group are more likely to be the main target for this magazine. The masthead text is white which is a strong and bright colour, the masthead uses a black outline which makes the magazine appear as if  it is in third dimension and because of this it make the masthead stand out even more which enables the viewer of the magazine to clearly see the magazine title that they are reading.

Above the masthead where the letter ‘m’ in Empire is there is information on the price and the release date of the magazine which is useful information for customers who intend to buy the magazine. There are two currency payment methods which are in pound sterling and dollars, this could suggest that Empires magazines main audience could be American and English viewers in particular.  There is a barcode on the bottom right hand side of the magazine which are requirements of a magazine to feature and magazines vary in the positioning of the barcode for example this particular magazine has the barcode positioned vertically. 

The magazine uses a puff, this is used by magazines to attract the audience into buying the product by displaying something interesting yet not giving to much information away in order to entice the audience. The puff used in this magazine is in the shape of a circular sticker which is next to the magazines main image. The puff is in yellow which is a bright and vibrant colour, the puff has the text ‘Meet marvels first avenger!’.

The magazine has a footer which is used to show the additional information available in the magazine. The footer uses a small print of how the magazine will look like and has different films included next to it. It is on a white background and uses black and grey font colours.

The background used in the magazine is USA flag, this is iconic and famous as the white and red stripes with the blue and white star square is very recognisable in society. The use of the USA flag as the background of the empire magazine is used because it relates to the theme of the magazine which is of the main image of Captain America. The colours used are blue, white and red which are common colours which identify the USA flag.

The magazines coverlines follow a yellow and white colour scheme which are bright colour, vibrant colours which stand out. There is a coverline on the right hand side of the magazine and a main coverline in the middle of the poster. The coverline on the right hand side has plus written in joint-up handwriting, this font style brings elegance to the magazine. The coverlines under it are movies which the magazine will talk about, it follows a white then yellow colour sequence. The main coverline in the middle of the poster is largely formatted, it has the text ‘Captain America’ in white and uses a similar font to the masthead.

Jouvan's textual analysis of an existing teaser trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSHEYVGaWok

I analysed the film ‘The Woman in Black’ for my poster analysis and decided to use the same film for my teaser trailer analysis. I used the same film for two of my textual analysis’s because I wanted to keep a consistently throughout my planning and research textual analysis work. ‘The Woman in Black’ teaser trailer is 47 seconds in length therefore it follows teaser trailer conventions by lasting between 30 to 60 seconds.

The teaser trailer begins with two quick fade transitions shots which show the production and distribution logos of the companies featured in the film on a black background. Non-diegetic music is played at the beginning of the teaser trailer, this creates a terrifying atmosphere for the audience. The non-diegetic music uses haunting tones which adds to the terrifying atmosphere of the teaser trailer which builds tension and suspense for the viewers.

The teaser trailer fades to an establishing shot of a house. The house appears to be abandoned as there is overgrown grass on the house walls and garden, the abandoned appearance of the house could lead to one believing that the house is haunted. This assumption could provide viewers with insight on the type of sub-genre the horror film is associated with as most ghost films are set in or around abandoned houses. A tracking camera movement is used which makes the camera move closer to the house, while this is happening the caption ‘The most chilling story’ appears in a one word after the other sequence, the caption is in capitals and uses a sans serif font. The font is in grey which matches the ghost theme of the movie as grey connotes depression, moodiness and mysteriousness. The caption could persuade the viewers into seeing the film as it has been stated as the most chilling ghost story. Once all of the words of the caption are displayed the setting of house fades and is replaced by a black background

The black background and the caption fades to a close up camera angle of a white male from his forehead to his nose. The man cannot be seen clearly as the shot uses low key lightning, the low key lighting used forms a shadow on the right side of the man’s face. The use of the low key lighting brings curiosity to the viewers because the individual cannot be seen which makes him appear suspicious and mysterious. There is an evident theme used in the teaser trailer as the caption ‘Of our time’ uses the same sans serif font and word sequence as the previous caption. At this point of the teaser trailer the music beings to get louder, faster paced and there is more emphasis on the haunting tones. 

There is a fade to a black background with the caption ‘Comes to life’ which uses the same caption tecqunique and is a continuation of the previous captions. It then fades from the black background to an office setting where the shadowed man from the previous scene is seen spinning a lamp with his hand at a medium long shot camera angle. The character is dressed in a black blazer, waistcoat, tie, trousers and a white shirt, from the characters costume the audience can tell that the film is set in the early 20^th century as the character is wearing old fashioned clothing. The props found in the office are chairs, a sofa, a desk, candles and a lamp. Low key lighting is used in the shot which gives a creepy atmosphere to the teaser trailer. The characters non-verbal communication suggests that he is intrigued as he is focusing and looking down at a lamp.

The shot suddenly cuts to a medium close up of the character who bends down to examine the lamb and whilst he does so there is a tilt movement used which tilts down to follow the characters movement. During the time the character bends down the music previously used stops and is replaced by internal diegetic sound which uses a foley sound effect to make the sound of the lamp spinning become more clearer to hear and much more emphasized.

 The shot makes a quick cut to the inside of the lamb which spins around at a quick pace until a woman’s face can be spotted at the other side of the lamp. This frightens the audience as the shot of the woman is unexpected and startles them, this gives the audience a taste of what is to be expected in the film as it is the first glimpse of the antagonist in the film.

There is a quick cut of the character at a medium shot, the characters non-verbal communication suggests that he is frightened and shocked as he startles backwards and has his mouth open as if he is in shock. The shot is in a stairway which is odd as he was once in an office, this puts the audience at unease and at a confused state of mind. The lighting is mainly high key as it is well lit by a lamp on the wall however there is some low key lightning towards the back of the shot.

The shot then fades to a black background which shows the actors name, the caption however doesn’t follow the theme it did for the previous captions as it doesn’t display each word one after the other but displays the caption once. The music changes to a xylophone tone which is very slowed paced in comparison to the music used in the beginning of the teaser trailer, because the music is slow paced it builds suspense as the audience feel as if something is going to occur shortly.

The shot then fades to a medium close up of the character who is looking on the floor with his head bent down, the shot is taken from the characters right hand side. The speed of the music increases and a person’s hand quickly appears and touches the man on his shoulder. This entices the audience as they don’t know what happens next which persuades them to watching the film. The shot then fades to two shots which feature the horror film title caption and the caption ‘In cinemas soon’.

Jouvans textual analysis of a horror poster

The Woman in Black is a horror movie which is due to be released in February 2012. The film is produced by the film production company ‘Hammer Film Productions’ and is distributed by Momentum Pictures. The film is directed by James Watkins and features actors such as Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds and Liz White. The Women in Black is a film remake of the 1983 novel written by Susan Hill. The Woman in Black is about a lawyer who visits a small village for legal reasons and soon discovers that the village he has visited is haunted by a woman. The lawyer later realises that the woman is a ghost that is set on getting revenge on the community after she was unable to save her child, however the lawyer is determined to prevent this from occurring.

The posters main image is of the actor Daniel Radcliffe who plays the lawyer ‘Arthur Kipps’ in the film. The character is positioned on the left hand side of the poster at a close up camera angle from his eyebrows to his lower lip. Half of the characters face is displayed in the shot which creates a mysterious feel to the poster. The posters main image challenges common conventions by using a close up camera angle, many horror film posters typically use medium close ups or long shots for example Nightmare On Elm Street (2010) and Friday the 13^th  (2009) follow conventions by both using long shots in their posters main image. Below is the 2010 Nightmare On Elm Street poster which uses as long shot. 

The poster however follows common conventions found in horror film posters by using less than three main image characters, the majority of horror film posters feature one main character and a minority use two or more.  The main image uses low key lighting, there are dark shadows around the characters nose and left cheek which could suggest that the light source is positioned at the characters right hand side. Low key lighting is common in horror film posters as it symbolises the horror genre. From the characters non-verbal communication the audience can tell that the character is focused because he is looking directly at the camera with his eyes wide open. The character has a well trimmed goatee which could suggest that he is a person who takes pride in his appearance as well as being of a higher class in order to keep up with such an appearance . The characters props and costume cannot be identified as the characters face is the only thing present in the poster. 

On the right hand side of the poster there is a background next to the main image which uses a mist effect, this effect makes the character appear to be in the mist.  The use of the misty background creates a mysterious and chilling mood to the poster, the mist is grey and grey connotes mystery,evilness and depression. In the mist a ghosts face can seen and the ghost could possibly be the woman in black, because the ghost is next to the main image of the character it could be mean that the ghost is coming for the him. Ghosts are spirits of a dead person hence why it is a typical convention used in horror posters as it frightens the audience.

On the right hand side of the poster the main characters name, a tagline, the films title and the films additional information is displayed. The information on the right hand side of the poster uses the same sans serif font which is in white capital letters however the text varies in font size . The poster has a structured and organized format because all of the texts use the same font.

The main characters name is at the top right hand side of the poster. The characters second name is below his first name, this word formatting style brings a  unique look to the poster.

The tagline used in the poster is ‘Do you believe in ghosts?’. The tagline  is next to the image of a ghost, the tagline could have been placed there to make the audience agree with the questions that ghosts do exist.

The title of the film is in the bottom half of the poster and it uses a unique format as each word is below its previous one and each word from the title uses a different font size. The word ‘Woman’ and ‘Black’ are in large font sizes while  ‘In’ and ‘The’ are in small font sizes.

Below the film title the films release month is displayed in a small font and below this is where the films logos are positioned.

Logo sketch ideas

Above are two logo sketches for my groups film logo. As a group we decided to create a logo from the first sketch because we felt it was the most effective and appropriate for what we intended to produce. 

Examples of horror films

Psycho

Psycho is a horror film made in 1960 by Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho is a highly respected horror film which made $32 million from a $806 thousand budget.Psycho is about a women called Marion who steals a certain amount of money from her office and escapes to a motel after being followed by a police man. Marion is later killed by Norman who is the owner of the motel. Later on in the film the audience find out that Norman isn't  psychological stable as he dresses up as his dead mother as a way of keeping her alive and as a way of guidance for him. Norman was later caught in the film by Marions sister who found Normans dead mums corpse in the basement, and he went to jail.

Insidious

Insidious was made in 2010 and had a budget of just over $1 million and made $91 million. Insidious was written by Leigh Whannell and directed by James Wan who produced Saw.

Insidious is about a family who are in a haunted house and their son gets possessed by the demons and goes into a coma. Later on in the film the parents find out that the house is possessed and that there are demons there after they asked for spiritual help form a lady. The spiritual stated that their son is out of his physical and his dad would be able to bring him back which he does however at the end of the movie the audience find out that he has been possessed too.

Halloween

Halloween is a 1978 movie directed by John Carpenter and produced by Debra Hill, Halloween had a $325 thousand budget and made $47 million.Halloween is a film about a character called Michael who escapes from a mental institution to go back to Haddonfield to find his younger sister and kills anybody in his way. Michael was institutionalised at a young age after killing his older sister and main goal is to kill.

Horror film director

James Wan is a 34 year old horror film director who was born in Malaysia. James Wan has graduated from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and has won many awards such as the Pegasus Audience Award, Special Jury prize, Youth Jury Grand Prize and the Audience Award.

James Wan is mostly known for directing the famous horror films Saw 1, Dead Silence and Insidious. James Wan’s directed films are recognised globally and have generated large amounts of gross at the box office with Saw 1 grossing $103 million, Dead silence grossing $22 million and Insidious grossing $91 million. James Wan is also known for creating the iconic and famous villain characters Billy the puppet and Jigsaw from Saw 1. The characters James Wan created were liked so much by the audience that character bags, toys, pencil cases etc were made which raised more money and awareness for the film. James Wan is also known for producing and being a screenwriter for horror films for example he produced Saw 3 and was the screenwriter for Dead silence.

Jouvan's horror movie review

I reviewed the horror film Paranormal Activity 3.The film was very interesting as it used a lot of suspense and tension. The film did so by using fast paced background music and quick cuts which i found very effective in keeping me interested in the film plot. Paranormal Activity is a psychological horror movie about a house which is haunted and has an unwanted ghost inside. I would reward the movie a 4 out of 5 because i feel that it achieved its purpose for a horror movie by frightening the audience and keeping us in suspense.

Preliminary filming images

Our group took pictures of a horror film teaser trailer scene in order to prepare us for our actual teaser trailer. By doing so our group gained knowledge on how to operate the camera as well as becoming familiar with practising film scenes. Harry acted as the priest in this particular scene, the scene was about a priest tying to save a mothers possessed daughter. 

Jouvans improved audience research

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I found out the male and female who participated in my audience research believed that they would be attracted to a teaser trailer if it included non diegetic music, due to this my groups teaser trailer might include non diegetic music as it is a feature which attracts audiences. They dissagree that  films which show less film footage is enticing and because of this my groups teaser trailer might use some film footage but not too much to give away the story's plot. They also believe that they would be attracted to a horror film if it challenged horror conventions. They have a difference in views of whether captions or voice notes are enticing in teaser trailers and whether teaser trailers are equally as important as posters and magazines. 

Jouvans audience research

I conducted my audience research by asking four people the following questions on the social networking site 'Twitter'.

1. How old are you?
2. What's your gender?
3. What genre of films do you enjoy the most?
4. How long do you expect a teaser trailer to be?
5. What do expect to see within a horror teaser trailer?
6. What colours do you think are suitable for a horror poster?
7. Would you prefer a teaser trailer to include fast or slow paced music?

Once my audience research was collected i released that the feedback I was provided with was inadequate and not as informative as I wanted it to be. In addition the audience research questions I asked weren't of a high standard as some of the questions I asked had no significant relation to horror. Therefore I decided to produce an improved questionnaire where i would use better questions and get better responses.

Logo research

Logos are an important feature in filming. Logos are used to represent a filming company and are uniquely designed in order for them to be easily identified. There are two types of filming companies, these companies are the mainstream and the independent . The mainstream companies include Universal, Warner Bros, Paramount, Walt Disney, 20^th century fox and Columbia and the independent companies include Pixar, New line cinema and Paramount Vantage to name a few of many independent companies.Film company logos are displayed at the beginning of the film for the audience to know who produced, distributed or marketed the film.

Warner Bros logo 

Paramount logo 

New line cinema logo 

Pixar logo