Horror props list

Costumes for horror opening

Locations for final opening

Animatics for horror opening

Final horror opening storyboard

Results from horror questionnaire

 What sub genre of horror films are your most favourite?

What are your favourite horror films?

                                            What are your top three favourite horror films?

What feelings and emotions do you expect from a horror film?

The results that I collected from the audience, have given me a really good understanding of what they might expect from our media product, in terms of emotions and sub-genres. The results have showed me what films our target audience enjoy watching, for example 'Paranormal Activity' and 'Shutter Island'. This means that I can research these films and let them inspire me with creating our horror opening.

Horror genre questionnaire Audience Research

Please take a couple of minutes to fill in my horror genre questionnaire, I would really appreciate it.
Just click on the link below.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YXRDKRH

Audience research for horror opening

Brainstorm idea's for Institution names

Above you can see our brainstorm for institution names. As a group we created a big list of different institution names, and chose these names out of the list. The reasons why we chose these 8 institution names to pick from, is because we thought these are all closely related to the horror genre of our film opening and that they all sound scary and spooky.

You can see below the brainstorm our audience survey. We created this survey because we wanted to know which name members of the public liked most, so we could choose one which many people liked. We asked 13 people which name they liked the most from the list and the most popular by far was 'PARANORMAL PICTURES', so we decided to use this name for our institution company.

Evaluating Preliminary tasks

Final preliminary task and evaluation

During the process of making our prelim task, I experimented with filming, editing and directing. I learnt how to film different shots such as match on action and shot reverse shot. Experienced teachers and other group members taught me how to film properly and accurately. Each member of our group got a chance to film the different scenes with the camera. This will help us when we film our final horror opening, as we have more knowledge and understanding of filming.

We used the editing program Final cut on the apple macs to edit our prelim. When using the program I found it difficult knowing where the different controls were, but after a short period of time on the program, I got more confident with it. After using final cut for our prelim, we decided to use final cut to edit our horror opening. This is because the program has many different features which make it easy to work with, such as large range of transitions and a clear layout with useful tools. Using the program when editing the prelim, has given me and my group more understanding and experience with the program. This will make it quicker and easier for our group to edit the opening.

We each had a chance to be the director in the group, so that we had a bigger understanding of the role.  I learnt that being the director is a very difficult but important role, as you have to be in charge of everything, having a good understanding of what you want the actors and crew members to do.

Overall I found the prelim task very fun but mostly helpful. It has given me a better understanding for what the final opening will be like and what me and my group need to accomplish to make it successful.

Prelim script

Prelim storyboard

Prelim Brainstorm idea's

Movie production company logos

Dawn of the dead cover analysis

Scream cover analysis

The Ring Analysis Group presentation (Me, Zoe, Kelsey and Ellie)

A Nightmare on Elm Street movie opening analysis (Flynn, Emily and Emma's group)

The Grudge movie opening analysis (Zak, Hannah and Van's Group)

DreamWorks Film Institution Company

Twisted Pictures Film Institution

Psycho Movie Opening Analysis, 9 frames and Timeline

Dawn Of the Dead Movie Opening Analysis

Falling Down Movie Opening Analysis with 9 frames

Forrest Gump Movie Opening Analysis, Timeline and 9 Frames

Se7en Movie opening Analysis and Timeline

Movie opening's Information Table

Film	Genre of film	Conventions	Style of Openings	Information and Credits
Pretty Woman	Romantic/ Love/ Action	Set: an adults Garden party. Shots types Including Panning, over the shoulder, long shots and arial shot. Costumes very smart wealthy people expensive cars. Crosscutting. Happy joyful music.	Relaxed/ Joyful/ happy	Movie Company firstly presented, important people and main characters later on.
The Dark Knight	Action/ Thriller	Arial shot over buildings to show set whilst constant drone/pedal playing over on repeat adding tension. Low Shots, high shots, over the shoulder and extreme close ups are used.	Fast moving, Violent, scary,	Film Company Logo has been changed to fit genre/style of film (darkened)
Final Destination 3	Horror	Set in a fair ground, dark loud clashing chords create tension, black writing, words on various fair rides foreshadowing what will happen in the film. Wind and screaming creates suspense and scary.	Fast/ quick shots, tense.	Film company Logo part has been changed to fit the Horror Genre of film. Scary music, Red color and spiky bold font creates tension.

Pulp Fiction	Action/ Thriller/ Romance	Violent, abusive and racist language and humor. Match on action shots, This causes Tension to build up making the audience feel anxious and scared.	Calm/ relaxed/ scary, violent	Film producers, Important actors.
The shining	Horror	Arial/ bird eye view panning Low key, clashing, music creates tension, contrasts with nice countryside. set is very isolated makes characters seem vulnerable and isolated.	Scary, intimidating	The film company (Warner Bros) firstly presented. important actors are then presented.
Se7en	Horror	The ragged, worn and scary looking font suits the typical horror genre of the film. Creates tension Quick extreme close up shots creates a feel of disorientation. The shots are very low lighting with many shadows which add to the tension.	scary, interresting and unusual	The film company is firstly presented. Important actors are later presented (brad pitt)

The Number 23	Horror	Black writing stands out from white paper background. Font looks old and creepy. Color of some writing goes red giving the look of blood creating tension foreshadowing that blood might be spilt later on in the film. Music gradually gets louder, quick shots create tension.	unusual, scary	Movie film company presented along with important actors and other members of crew  for the production of the film.
This is England	Action, thriller, Gang fighting and crime.	Music contrasts with images as it is upbeat music (relatively happy) but there is a lot of people getting hurt in the images. Poor setting (rough and dangerous place in england). Graffiti shows it is rough and The font looks worn down and rough assosiating with the place.	Violence, racism, sympathy and upset	Film producers are firstly presented, followed by actors and important members of the production cast.
Hot Fuzz	Action,Thriller, Horror, Comedy	The film company Logo (universal pictures) has been modified to have police sirens playing in the background to relate to the film genre. Long shot, slow zoom, extreme close up. Voice over of main character, helps audience understand.	Funny, Serious, violence	Film Company mentioned first followed by actors and important crew members.

Voiceover on Psycho Screenshots

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Essay evaluating my three favourite scenes

Alfred Hitchcock's life as a movie director

From this video of an interview with Hitchcock on youtube, I have learnt that he planned his films in lots of detail. He created his scenario very carefully and meaningful to suit the Horror genre. He would create unusual feelings felt in the audience, by including fairly un noticeable weird props and unusual things in his scenes. But it was all there for a reason. This has given me idea's for my final horror movie opening, as I will include not so obvious objects in the shots which link with the horror movie.

Researching media sounds

Shot Reverse Shot

The 180 Degree Rule

Match on action Shot

Over the Shoulder Horror Shot

Side Horror Shot

Canted Horror Shot

Horror Long Shot