Monday 23 March 2015

Feedback from Our Target Audience (15-24)

    
                                  

       

You Shouldn't Have Done That - Inspiration

We got the idea/inspiration for our new ending from the creepypasta - Ben Drowned. It is a story about a boy called Ben who loved video games.


Thursday 29 January 2015

Seven - Opening analysis


  • Movie starts with 'New Line Cinema'
A man is shown coming in the kitchen doing a bit of cleaning and then adjusting his wrist collar while going out of the room. The scene then shifts to the person adjusting his tie and slowly the camera moves upwards showing the face of our first character. The man as soon as he is done adjusting the tie he gets his necessary things. He takes his coat and switches off the light. The scene then shifts to two people talking about a murder case, the bodies are shown. The man then looks around here and there to see if there is anything. The second character then moves into an opposite room while a third character is coming up the stairs. As the third character comes and is shown looking for someone and introduces himself. The scene shifts to a building from where a body comes out on an ambulance bed, with the first and third character coming out while talking and then walking. First character is shown lying on the bed and reading a book, the camera then swiftly moves from him putting down his spectacles to a nearby tick-tock instrument. Then the sound of rain for a while. Finally the title scene comes.

Tuesday 20 January 2015

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - opening sequence




  • The movie starts with the official Walt Disney pictures and then Walden Media.
  • The movie then starts with eclipse as shown.
  • By using the aerial shot the scene slowly moves at first from the eclipse towards the castle with a slow mysterious type of music.
  • The music then fades away with a women screaming and crying. The camera then moves quite fast towards the castle into the room where the women screaming and crying.
  • The shot is then shifted from the women crying and screaming to another women who is putting pressure on her head as to calm her down.
  • It's shown that a women entering the room with towel and with a jug of water (as presumed by the audiences), who hurries towards the bed where the fourth women is.
  • The fourth women then asks for the towel with the women screaming because of the pain during pregnancy after a few seconds she calms down as the baby is born.
  • The baby is then crying on the arms of the fourth women who is there smiling in happiness because of the birth of a child
  • Slowly the fourth women hands over the baby to his/her mother while the baby still crying whereas the mother is very happy and smiling and then hugging her/him.
  • The room is then shown with the three women standing near the bed while the mother is resting with the baby in her arms.
  • The scene then shifts to the gate of a room in the castle with a man (solider) coming inside and going towards another man who is standing near the window looking outside.
  • During this scene the surrounding is shown.
  • Then the man who was entering is shown in a medium shot, then shifting to the man near the window showing him looking at the moon.
  • At 1:50 the man's face is half shown
  • And again goes back to the man (solider) by using the shot reverse shot.
  • The scene then shifts to the corridor of the castle where we see a solider coming out of a room looking suspicious and checking if anyone was there or not.
  • As he goes an old man in a clock is running towards the room from where the solider came out, in mysterious way.
  • The old man comes into the room and as soon as he comes near the bed he first put his hand on the person sleeping, who at first grasps but as he sees that it is professor and gets relived.
  • They have little conversation through which the audience finds out that he is the prince.
  • The prince then is hiding in a cupboard which has a hidden passage while inside the cupboard he sees many soliders coming in inside his room and surrounding the bed, ready to shoot arrows in order to kill the prince.
  • In the background the music is at first with the bird chirping out load and as they finish shooting arrows a sign of relieve music is there.
  • The prince then hurriedly goes down the stairs with the professor.
  • The next shot is shown as the prince taking all the equiments required for a solider.
  • The next scene is shown as the prince sitting on a horse
  • The title sequence then starts to play
  • As the prince is riding with credits going on there are fireworks as the prince's aunt gave birth to a son.

Monday 19 January 2015

Research on Psychological Horror


What is a Psychological horror?

It is one of the sub genre of horror fiction. These are often based on video games [as a narrative for example 'Resident Evil' (1996)]. This mainly relies on the characters' fears and emotional instability to up the tension for the audiences. There even novels based films in this genre for example Psycho (film) is directed by Alfred Hitchcock which is actually based on the novel with the same title by Robert Bloch.

Some examples of psychological horror are:-
  • Black Swan
  • The Blair Witch Project
  • Stalker
  • The Mirror
  • Sinister
  • The Omen
  • Paranormal Activity
  • 13
  • The Ring
 


Sunday 18 January 2015

Target Audience - Psychological Horror

Questionnaire

Name:- 

Age:-

1. What is your favourite movie genre?

2. How do you watch films? (DVDs, Netflix, Download the movie?)

3. What is your favourite film?

4. What do you like the most about your favourite film

5. What do you think a psychological horror film should involve?

6. How would you feel if you were the main character of our film plot?