Preliminary Task

The Script

Joanna:                                (Walks down K block corridor casually)

(a scream comes from K16)

Joanna:                                (reaction shot of character after the scream looking confused/worried)

Joanna:                                (lose up of opening the door on the handle)

                            (Joanna walks in, the camera is in the classroom looking at Joanna as she walks in)

                              (Point of View shotas Joanna looks round to see what the noise was)

(Muffled noise comes from behind a closed cupboard door)

                          (Pan/Tracking shotas Joanna walks around the classroom looking for the noise)

(Knocking/banging noise comes from behind the cupboard door)

                     (Point of View shot of Joanna opening the door and seeing a person tied up)

Joanna:                                (Confused reactions, worried facial expression)

                 What the hell happened?! Are you okay?! Who did this to you?! Is it safe?!

                                (looking around worried)

Jemma:  Just untie me!!

(The camera is positioned from above the two girls:

while looking around frantically, Joanna starts to untie Jemma)

Joanna:                  (point of view shot) *Unties Gemma, a pair of hands come in front of the camera holding a blindfold 

and cover up the lens (cover up Joanna’s Eyes)

(Joanna Screams as the screen goes black)

Planning my Horror Opening

Horror Opening Ideas:

The Plot:

Costumes:

I would really like for the 3-4 little girls playing hide and seek to wear really bright, colourful and girly dresses. This would imply that the girls are happy and having inoscent fun. It would make them look harmless and just like your typical group of friends planing hide and seek.

Some examples are:





I really like the colourful frills on both of these photos.
They create the touch of girlniess and inosence that
I want to give my main characters.



Setting:

I would really like to film my horror opening in an abandoned area or building. It would be really interesting to show the girls playing in hide and seek in a place that to most people would seem really spooky and somewhere that they wouldn't like to visit. However to the girls it is a place that opens their imagination and they like to play there inoscently together without realising the haunted atmosphere the loaction has.

 Some Examples are:

all of these locations look very creepy and wouldn't be a place that i would like to visit in the dark or to play there.
They're exactly the type of place that I would like to film my horror opening at just so that I can create these
haunted, scary effects to the audience. it would keep the audience on edge as it would lead them to beleive that
something scary or bad is going to happen because of the location the film is set in.



Film Genres

Examples:

Mystery: The Maze Runner Inception Non - Stop Se7en Watchmen
Action: Avengers Guardians of the Galaxy Captain America Lucy Godzilla
Adventure: Indiana Jones Harry Potter Pirates of the Caribbean The Hunger Games Gladiator
Documentary Bears I know That Voice Super-Size Me One Direction: This Is Us Catfish
Crime: American Hustle 22 Jump Street Pulp Fiction Sabotage Fast and Furious
Historical: 12 years a slave Pompeii Saving Mr. Banks Lincoln The King's Speech
Romance: The fault in our stars The Great Gatsby The Notebook About Time Titanic
Horror: The Conjuring The Purge World War Z Carrie Sinister
Comedy: Bad Neighbours Sex Tape The Other Woman The Lego Movie Blended
Fantasy: Maleficent How to train your dragon Man of Steel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows The Twilight Saga
Realistic: The Hunt Festen The Sea Inside  Spartacus Winter's Bone
Thriller The Guest 7500 Horns Transcendence The Imitation Game

Camera Shots

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Conventions of a Horror Films

Conventions of a horror film from Joanna Staines

Media in my Life

There are many different forms of viewing the media in the world and I think it's fair to say that we all use a lot of these different forms. Personally, I use hundreds and thousands of these various forms. Often I find myself casually scrolling through my Facebook or Twitter feed just to pass the time. I use the media to keep in touch with friends both living close to home and those living overseas. Although I don’t do it often, I will sometimes use the media to update myself on the news of the World or the latest gossip of the celebrities. I will occasionally find myself gazing at the bright posters, billboards and magazines produced by the print media.

If there was to be a fire in your house/building what would be the first thing you’d grab? In a lot of situations someone chooses their mobile phone. I know I definitely would. My phone never leaves my side. It is such a useful device that can access so much different applications. I would find it extremely difficult if I was forced to live without it. If I had to count how many times I used my phone every day I would lose count within the first couple of hours. The Daily Mail wrote that the average person checks their phone up to 110 times a day and up to every 6 seconds in the evening. That’s a lot.

The media has had a large impact on me personally and still has this large impact on me now. It has come to a point where the media has started to control my life.     I find myself constantly checking my phone for new updates on social media and to see what the latest gossip is. The media has had both positive and negative effects on my life. On the negative side of things I find that the media causes me to waste a lot of my free time that I could be using to do more productive activities. On the positive side I find that the media, especially in the more social perspective benefits me in many ways. For instance, I am able to contact friends from overseas in the U.S.A who I have grown up with and find it harder to keep in touch with them. But the social media allows me to stay in touch with them easier.

The media affects all of us, whether we like it or not. However, it’s up to each of us as individuals to use it wisely.

Psycho

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7 Film Opening Analyses

Film	Genre	Conventions	Style of Opening	Narrative/Storyline of film
Pretty Woman	Romantic Comedy	Institutions, Producers, actors, actresses and film title	Introduction of the characters	A wealthy man is having slight problems with his relationship and leaves his own party to try fixing it.
Final Destination 3	Horror/Thriller	Institutions, film title, Actors, Actresses, Main cast, Editors	Establishing the scene of the fairground/title sequence	A group of friends are at the funfair going on different rides while one girl thinks something is wrong
Reservoir Dogs	Crime Fiction	Men in suits discussing various events	Rapid Panning over the characters then the title sequence	A group of men who are possibly friends are having a meeting or gathering at a restaurant laughing and joking around with some hints of serious discussions/arguments
Pulp Fiction	Comedy/Crime	Conversation on robbing a restaurant Hold up in the restaurant	Dialogue between two characters, title sequence follows	A couple are in a restaurant and spontaneously decide they are going to rob the resteraunt they are in, the opening then cuts to music and the title sequence.
The Number 23	Thriller/Physiological	Thriller/Physiological Use of blood in the title sequence	Title Sequence, the establishing panning shot	The opening makes it clear that the number '23' is very significant to the film. The opening plays haunting music and there is a lot of blood appearing on the screen covering up the names of the cast.
The Cabin in the Woods	Horror/Thriller	Institutions, actors/actresses and producers	Two girls dialogue with title sequence in the background	There are a group of teenagers going on a trip together, they are staying for a while and it is suspected that something is going to happen while they are away.
Evil Dead	Horror/Thriller	Film Title, Director, actors and actresses	Title Sequence with dripping/flowing blood	Title sequence with a lot of flowing blood everywhere. haunting music is playing which makes it very clear that the film is going to involve blood or death.