Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Top 10 Horror Films


1.       The Exorcist (1973)
When a girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

2.       The Shining (1980) A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

3.       Jaws (1975)
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.

4.       Halloween (1978)
A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.

5.       Psycho (1960)
A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.

6.       Frankenstein (1931)
Horror classic in which an obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses

7.       The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Five friends visiting their grandpa's old house are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.

8.       Night of the Living Dead (1968)
A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.

9.       The Sixth Sense (1999)
A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist

10.   The Birds (1963)
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness





When watching Psycho we found some shots that we liked and would try to re-create in our own film. These are the shots that we took small things from to make our film as effective as possible

Horror film - screen shots

These a screen shots from two different horror films, the top left, The Grudge, this along with the other screen shot from paranormal activity are both iconic images from the films.

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Opinions of our film

The following questions were asked to seven viewers after watching our horror film opening:
Did you enjoy the clip?
What aspects did you enjoy most about the clip?
If you could change one thing about the clip what would it be?
How effectively do you think we have used sound in the piece?

Jack and Alex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ziyv7tFY2s&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Dom and Connor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb55rsEOk_A&feature=relmfu

Rosy and Amy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_31gsZcNvSY&feature=relmfu

Toby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8dHWR_qsv8&feature=relmfu

From the responses we got i can tell that people enjoyed our film from many different aspects. As you can see from the videos people said sound and camera angles were used effectively, but from a negative side they said the overall story line could made clearer, whether it be to inroduce dialogue or lengthen the piece.

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Character profile

Name:Lewis Barker
Age:16
Gender:Male

This is a character profile for an audience member in which I feel our film will be aimed at. This is a picture of them and I will portray their ideas towards the horror genre. Here is a small section of information on that;

Lewis is currently at North Herts College studying sport. He is outgoing, sociable and is perfect representation of the type of person I am looking to aim my film at.
 He likes going out which is clearly stated by the photo where is at a festival. He is very social and goes out with friends regularly, this is what I want from our target audience so they are more likely to go to the cinema with friends. The age range is 15-25 and for both genders, you can tell from the photo he is more likely to watch a film with friends than family.  Him and his mates only go to college three times a week, so has a lot of free time on his hands, most of these times he spends with friends.
His facial expression is happy and natural possibly suggesting that she enjoys going out with her friends and having a good time. He doesn’t like gory horrors such as saw and chainsaw massacre, but more psychological ones with sprits and ghosts in such as paranormal activity and the woman in black. He said he hears mostly about films through trailers on TV.
He doesn’t have a job but is currently looking for one, this means when he wants to go out to the cinema he gets money from his parents, but he said most of his friends have part time jobs.

Horror Survey

This is a survey of what people’s views are on films in the horror genre. The majority of people I asked were the same age as our target audience. These are the question that will be asked.
1. Do you like horror films?
2. If you do, why, if not, why?
3. If you to watch a horror film who would you watch it with?
4. What is your favourite horror film?

Will Barnes
Aged 16
Gender male

1. Yeah
2.Its an adrenaline rush
3 Friends
4 probably ‘the strangers’

Ellie Duckles
Aged 16
Gender Female

1. Not really
2.Because I don’t enjoy not knowing whats going to to happen that has the potential to scare me
3. Friends or sisters
4.Condisering I haven’t watched lot, I don’t mind the Saw’s and Texas Chainsaw Massacre