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Showing posts with label Sophie Grayling. Show all posts
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Thursday, 1 April 2010
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Detailed Interview
An interview with Vriddhi Chopra to gain a better insight on people’s opinions and thoughts of Horror films to help our teams productions have a better idea of what and how to create our film.
In a Horror film what themes, like zombie, vampire, witches etc would you like to see and why?
Currently there seems to be too much hype over vampire’s and werewolves therefore I’d really like to see a zombie film as I feel there is a gap in the market to gain my interest.
In your opinion what age group do you think Horror films are aimed at and why?
Teenagers and people in their young twenty’s as they see them for a thrill and a rush of adrenaline where as an older person would get a heart attack… or just not appreciate what the films aims are trying to do.
What type of characters would you like to see in the film and why?
I’d like to see an attractive male cast who are quite youthful so I could relate to the themes going on in the film as they are more of my own age. Also a few main characters as there would be more stereotypes and personality’s to explore to keep me interested.
What conventions do you associate with horror films?
Supernatural, gore, dark and gloomy, psychopaths, disturbed, blood, violence, weapons, death, haunting, ghosts.
When you go to the cinema what type of film are you likely to go and see and why?
I would probably go to see a Horror-comedy film because it would give me laughs and thrills so overall enjoyment, and I wouldn’t freak myself out to much
How likely are you to buy or rent the DVD when it’s released a few months later?
Depends how good the film was in cinema, but most likely I wouldn’t as the thrills and shocks during the film would no longer be unexpected loosing the impact of the film.
And finally what you want to see in the first two minutes of a horror film?
I would like to see more action in the opening scenes as I feel like previous films take to long to start therefore losing my interest.
From this interview, ideas to consider would be making a more action packed opening as viewers may feel bored with all the symbolic foreshadowing found in most the films as it bores and loses interest for the audience.
Main characters could consist of an all male or mixed cast varying from 3-6 main characters which may present more opportunites in the future plot line and creates a more variation for the audeince.
I have also learnt from this interview that there is an a market for zombie themed films, which back up other reasearch. Also the film needs to make most of its money from the box office as possible as there seems to be a slight unlikelihood of many DVD's being bought or rented when its released.
Sophie Grayling
In a Horror film what themes, like zombie, vampire, witches etc would you like to see and why?
Currently there seems to be too much hype over vampire’s and werewolves therefore I’d really like to see a zombie film as I feel there is a gap in the market to gain my interest.
In your opinion what age group do you think Horror films are aimed at and why?
Teenagers and people in their young twenty’s as they see them for a thrill and a rush of adrenaline where as an older person would get a heart attack… or just not appreciate what the films aims are trying to do.
What type of characters would you like to see in the film and why?
I’d like to see an attractive male cast who are quite youthful so I could relate to the themes going on in the film as they are more of my own age. Also a few main characters as there would be more stereotypes and personality’s to explore to keep me interested.
What conventions do you associate with horror films?
Supernatural, gore, dark and gloomy, psychopaths, disturbed, blood, violence, weapons, death, haunting, ghosts.
When you go to the cinema what type of film are you likely to go and see and why?
I would probably go to see a Horror-comedy film because it would give me laughs and thrills so overall enjoyment, and I wouldn’t freak myself out to much
How likely are you to buy or rent the DVD when it’s released a few months later?
Depends how good the film was in cinema, but most likely I wouldn’t as the thrills and shocks during the film would no longer be unexpected loosing the impact of the film.
And finally what you want to see in the first two minutes of a horror film?
I would like to see more action in the opening scenes as I feel like previous films take to long to start therefore losing my interest.
From this interview, ideas to consider would be making a more action packed opening as viewers may feel bored with all the symbolic foreshadowing found in most the films as it bores and loses interest for the audience.
Main characters could consist of an all male or mixed cast varying from 3-6 main characters which may present more opportunites in the future plot line and creates a more variation for the audeince.
I have also learnt from this interview that there is an a market for zombie themed films, which back up other reasearch. Also the film needs to make most of its money from the box office as possible as there seems to be a slight unlikelihood of many DVD's being bought or rented when its released.
Sophie Grayling
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Gap in the Market?
Horror films being released in 2010
Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction (vampires)
Directed by: Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig
Release date: Fri 08, Jan 2010
Income: $43,706,134 worldwide $30,101,577 America
Genre: Fantasy/Horror/Thriller
Directed by: Joe Johnston
Release date: Wed 10, Feb 2010
Income: $132,057,971 worldwide
Genre: Drama/Horror/Science-Fiction/Thriller
Directed by: Breck Eisner
Release date: Fri 26, Feb 2010
Income: $37,989,303 in america
Genre: Horror
Directed by: Samuel Bayer
Release date: Fri 30, Apr 2010
Genre: Adventure/Horror
Directed by: Scott Stewart
Release date: Fri 13, Aug 2010
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Directed by: Kevin Greutert
Release date:
Sat 16, Oct 2010
These are the main releases coming up this year, as advertisers on a new product this shows our team that there is in fact a market for our product especially during the late spring/early summer period where there is lack of horror releases. Research has also shown that there is a large gross income to gain, particularly from the United States which makes up more than half the income for most releases this year therefore making it an ideal location for release. As there has already been a zombie themed horror movie released earlier this year it would be suggested that our teams film would not be released till early August, to gain most interest, or later in the winter season of the year.
Thursday, 18 March 2010
The Ring
The Ring was a psychological horror American film produced in 2002 directed by Gore Verbinski. The main plot was based on a Japanese novel of a cursed videotape displaying a set of disturbing images, after the tape finishes the viewer would receive a mysterious phone call in which they would be told they would die in seven days.
The film starts off with an establishing shot of a suburban house, it slowly zooms in closer. This shows to the viewer that what is going to happen is going to be here. This is accompanied by the ambient sound of rain and the scene is of night, using this pathetic fallacy it foreshadows that themes of dark qualities are going to take place inside the house as it creates a negative atmosphere for the audience. While the camera is still zooming in on the house dialogue from unknown female character starts from the place the established shot was focusing on.
The next scene cuts to a two shot of two females, one sitting on the floor while the other laying on a bed. The mise-en-scene is of a bedroom, the audience can tell this because of the composition of objects, bed, bed side lamp, curtains etc. The two characters are dressed in black and white school uniform, suggesting that the film is aimed at a young adult audience as the age group is relevant to them. The brunette character is sitting on the floor holding a TV remote, which is where the only light comes from which is dim and dark keeping the audience tense from because of the brooding scene as the diagetic sound of rain is still in the background. The blonde character is given the remote, the shot cuts to the TV being turned of then quickly cuts back to her, this showing that the important events are about to start.
Dialogue is shown to be the most important thing taking place as the audience is being made to focus on the conversation of the unnamed characters. The audience knows this by change of camera shots, it changes to a close up of the brunette character so audience knows what she is saying is important as nothing else is going on in the scene. The shot then cuts to a point of view shot to show blonde characters distressed reaction and response, another method of keeping the audience tense, as well as now the rain in the background is more distinct adding to the dramatic impact on the audience foreshadowing the darkness of the topic of conversation.
The dialogue then begins to increase between both characters as it switches between close-up’s of the characters. The increase in pace makes the audience feel more anxious as they feel that a shocking event is more likely to happen at any more as the pace continues to climb. By the end of the 2 minutes the characters are still un-named, this suggests to the audience that these two characters are irrelevant to the main plot.
Sophie Grayling
The film starts off with an establishing shot of a suburban house, it slowly zooms in closer. This shows to the viewer that what is going to happen is going to be here. This is accompanied by the ambient sound of rain and the scene is of night, using this pathetic fallacy it foreshadows that themes of dark qualities are going to take place inside the house as it creates a negative atmosphere for the audience. While the camera is still zooming in on the house dialogue from unknown female character starts from the place the established shot was focusing on.
The next scene cuts to a two shot of two females, one sitting on the floor while the other laying on a bed. The mise-en-scene is of a bedroom, the audience can tell this because of the composition of objects, bed, bed side lamp, curtains etc. The two characters are dressed in black and white school uniform, suggesting that the film is aimed at a young adult audience as the age group is relevant to them. The brunette character is sitting on the floor holding a TV remote, which is where the only light comes from which is dim and dark keeping the audience tense from because of the brooding scene as the diagetic sound of rain is still in the background. The blonde character is given the remote, the shot cuts to the TV being turned of then quickly cuts back to her, this showing that the important events are about to start.
Dialogue is shown to be the most important thing taking place as the audience is being made to focus on the conversation of the unnamed characters. The audience knows this by change of camera shots, it changes to a close up of the brunette character so audience knows what she is saying is important as nothing else is going on in the scene. The shot then cuts to a point of view shot to show blonde characters distressed reaction and response, another method of keeping the audience tense, as well as now the rain in the background is more distinct adding to the dramatic impact on the audience foreshadowing the darkness of the topic of conversation.
The dialogue then begins to increase between both characters as it switches between close-up’s of the characters. The increase in pace makes the audience feel more anxious as they feel that a shocking event is more likely to happen at any more as the pace continues to climb. By the end of the 2 minutes the characters are still un-named, this suggests to the audience that these two characters are irrelevant to the main plot.
Sophie Grayling
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
The Final Destination
The Final Destination was released in 2000 which was a mix of genre's, a supernatural-thriller-horror.
The plot line follows freak accident death's that happen to a group of teenagers after they cheat death in a plane accident, which one of the characters had a premonition about.
The film is most likely aimed at an audience of an age gap between 15 - 25, as the film has an age rating of 15 and as it follow's teenagers it would probably be aimed at a younger audience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si8RLhCkNMw
The opening scene is around 3 minutes long before it fades out in to credits. I shall analyse what the audience will interpret and expect from the introduction of the film.
The opening scene uses pathetic fallacy by using the weather. The camera has uses a long shot that tilted upwards giving the impression that we are seeing this from someone's eyes. The view is of dark thunderous clouds with lightning, this to the audience could represent many things it would give the impression that something bad was going to happen that they're is a sense of evil and anger.
The camera then pans down a window giving the audience a clue to the mise-en-scene. This is done slowly giving a creepy feeling as it the camera then focuses on a doll with a demon like face painted on it hanging from a string. The camera then focuses on a shoot of the floor of the shadow of the doll swinging on the string, this to the audience looks like a man being hanged, it represents death which suggest's this is going to be a theme of the film to the audience which is also a common feature of horror.
A common house object is also used in the opening scene, a fan. The fans gives off a sound that is like a growl before they realise its a fan, creating a little suspense here. The growl could be interpreted as a sign of danger.
Death is a common feature in this opening scene as it used again by showing the book "Death of a sales man" which is focused and meant for the audience to take notice of.
The fan the "coincidently" flicks a book on to a page of a past historic event of where a tragedy that had lost lives was shown, the coincidence of the book opening on the page also suggest's demonic forces at work. While this is showing soft screams of women are heard in the background blatantly showing the terror foreshadowing that terror is going to be a part of the film.
The music to the opening scene only uses one instrument, a violin. The violin is used to create suspense by having a slow tempo using either low and long notes creating a dark atmosphere or either high notes changing speeding up the rate of suspense for the audience.
An obvious sign that this is going to be a Horror of demonic film is that a series of demon like creatures is shown in a flash behind the spinning fan. A page also is flipping through a book, again, and momentarily pauses of the word evil, if the audience has yet again not picked up any of the blatant foreshadowing.
Finally the scene ends on a close up of a book using a tilted angle to focuses on a book with the words This Is The End in red writing. The rest of the book fades out and all that is left is the red writing. The words and the colour has meaning to the audience, the red colour represents blood and death, and the words foreshadow the end of the film, though they're not sure what going to end but they're most likely to guess that its either going to the end of the world of the end of
someone's life depending on the events about to take place.
Sophie Grayling
Horror film
Horror Film
As a group we have decided we would be mainly focusing on the horror genre, therefore we need some background information on this genre.
Common features of horror films would be that suspense is a key feature that is used to create the common emotions of emotions that they want the audience to feel. Fear and terror. For example for suspense they useful trick they would use would be to create a dramatic pause by cutting of all sounds for a moment before a scene or gore etc.
Characteristics of horror would be mainly gore and violence using themes like zombies, death, psychological, cannibalism , vampires , monsters , mental illnesses etc which are some elements are group would consider for making a horror movie.
Many of the best horror films have been based on Gothic literature which had started back all the way in the 1700's with the novel "The castle of Otranto" which is seen as the first real Gothic novel. Many famous Gothic literature novel's that have been turned in to successful horror films are Dracula , Dr Jekyl & Mr Hyde and Frankenstein.
In recent time other genre's have been incorparated in to films, for example science fiction, fantasy, comedy and thrillers which is something our group may want to consider.
Horror films through the ages
Horror films have developed over the ages so we will study the changes and alterations of the films over periods of time.
1890's: "The house of the devil" was produced by Georges Meles was seen to have been the first real horror movie to be made.
1930's - 1940's: Universal Studios began to promote horror films bringing in successful films like Dracula, Frankenstein .
The indian film industry created a film Mahal which was the first film to use reincarnation which has also become a common characteristic on the horror genre.
1950's - 1960's: Three sub genres emerged.
"Horror of personality" In these characters are perfectly human rather than them being supernatural however the posses horrific personalities.
"Horror of Armageddon" In these films natural events plays a big role ie. A comet so big that it will destroy the whole of earth.
and "Horror of demonic film" This genre includes more evil
spiritual roles for example demons or witches.
1970's - 1980's: Steven Spielburgs "Jaws" was one of the biggest grossing films to be made in the 1970's and was one of the first horror movies to be a big budget hollywood film.
Comedy and sexual overtones began to emerge in to horror films.
Horror films in the 1980's were called "Splatterpunk" as they were often gory and violent with no limitations on how graphic they were.
1990's: They're began a decrease in the market for horror films as the 1980's as they're were many slasher films that had been released in the late 80's and early 90's so the originality had started to wear off by this point. The films that were being produced were more ironic and parodic.
2000's: At the start of the 2000's the was little horror being released how ever a few films like Final Destination were successful. Horror films in this decade tended to be more based on Zombies and Psychological.
Sophie Grayling
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