Thursday, 21 March 2013
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Horror genre
The genre Horror attempts to elect negative thinking and a primeval sense of self defence in its purist form. The objective of a 'scary movie' or horror movie is both to scare, and to thought provoke negative and life threatening ideas and concepts based on suggestive cinematography and mise-en-scene. Horror films aim to base their scare on the audiences individual fears, where as in reality the fears are shared by most of the audience. Respectively to their field, horror movie producers spend much time, money and effort into the reasearch of 'scare'. Horror movies will often resort to tactics including 'evil forces', 'hidden fears', and the use of a 'super-natural' beings that are un-explained, to allow the audience to make the 'scare' leap. Horror movies, when not using special digital effects, they often rely on a set-list of characters and horror-types to scare: ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, curses, satanism, demons, gore, torture, vicious animals, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and serial killers, are the norm for most horror storys. Horror was believed to be born in France in the late 1890's in specifically 1898 by film pioneer Georges Méliès best known by 'Le Manoir du diable', which is often credited as being the first horror film. The genre horror then quickly travelled outside europe into Japan, who made early forays into the horror genre with 'Bake Jizo' and 'Shinin no Sosei', both made in 1898. Then on top the 1930's & 1940's where James Whales 'Frankenstein' was born, and on to the present day.
Thursday, 7 March 2013
List of “tricky” shots/edits/effects
One of the first 'tricky' shots we use in our first 2 minutes for our film is a handheld shot which shows the camera entering moorecliffe. Using Final Cut, we then duplicated the video track, reversed it and made it overlay the existing video track.
This caused the final stages of the shot to appear as the opening stages of the shot was playing and vice versa - causing a 'dejavu' effect which emphasises the strange, surreal nature to the beginning of the film.
Another tricky shot we used was a 'ghost' effect that showed the group of teenagers walking to moorecliffe before disappearing and reappearing. To do this, we used 2 video tracks - the teenagers walking to the orphanage and a replica of the previous shot without the teenagers. We cut out parts of the track where the teenagers are walking, replacing it with the track without the teenagers. This then showed the teenagers disappearing. By adding a cross fade between the two tracks, it shows them fading away like ghosts.
This caused the final stages of the shot to appear as the opening stages of the shot was playing and vice versa - causing a 'dejavu' effect which emphasises the strange, surreal nature to the beginning of the film.
Another tricky shot we used was a 'ghost' effect that showed the group of teenagers walking to moorecliffe before disappearing and reappearing. To do this, we used 2 video tracks - the teenagers walking to the orphanage and a replica of the previous shot without the teenagers. We cut out parts of the track where the teenagers are walking, replacing it with the track without the teenagers. This then showed the teenagers disappearing. By adding a cross fade between the two tracks, it shows them fading away like ghosts.
Monday, 4 March 2013
Script (Redraft)
Olivia, Luke, Josh and Jade
Luke: What we gonna do tonight guys?
Jade: I dunno, we could throw a halloween party?
Olivia: Yeah but where? There's nowhere that we could throw it..
Jade: Good point.
Josh: How about we go to Moorecliffe?
Jade: Oh yeah, isn't that the orphanage that was abandoned ages ago?
Luke: Some other kids went up there on halloween in the eighties. I can't remember what happened to them but apparently some ghosts scared the crap out of them
Olivia: How so?
Luke: Well, the story is said that in the 1940s, this mad guy escaped from a asylum or something, he was convinced one of the orphans was his kid, and he wanted vengeance on someone for taking her.
Voice over
Luke cont.: He went to Moorecliffe and no one knows exactly what happened.
Title sequence
Jade: It's supposed to be haunted by little children isn't it?
Olivia: My Dad tried scaring me with that story when I was a kid, I thought he was just making the whole thing up.
Luke: No, it's true. Well, to some extent..
Olivia: My Dad always said that the kid wasn't actually his, he just knew her mum and hated her, so wanted revenge through the orphan.
Luke: Something like that, I wish I knew the full story.
Olivia: I've found it on my phone.
"Moorecliffe Massacre: On Halloween, 1943 an escaped prisoner sought revenge on the likes of his ex wife. A child who was a resident at the orphanage was the result of an affair in previous years. The prisoner was sentenced for life due to the murder of his former wife, after finding out "their" child was not actually his after the father revealed himself at a family gathering. After escaping from the prison the man was determined to find the child, after learning the child's location from a recent newspaper article with a photograph of the orphans. He instantly set out to the orphanage and upon arriving, told all staff that he was the father of the child and had returned to take her home. He was let through to see the child, and in seeing the resemblance of his betraying wife, he went insane. No traces of any of the orphans were found. Rumours have it that the spirit of the orphans still roam the halls, scaring away all trespassers, and that the prisoner is still alive, but no one knows where.
Luke: What we gonna do tonight guys?
Jade: I dunno, we could throw a halloween party?
Olivia: Yeah but where? There's nowhere that we could throw it..
Jade: Good point.
Josh: How about we go to Moorecliffe?
Jade: Oh yeah, isn't that the orphanage that was abandoned ages ago?
Luke: Some other kids went up there on halloween in the eighties. I can't remember what happened to them but apparently some ghosts scared the crap out of them
Olivia: How so?
Luke: Well, the story is said that in the 1940s, this mad guy escaped from a asylum or something, he was convinced one of the orphans was his kid, and he wanted vengeance on someone for taking her.
Voice over
Luke cont.: He went to Moorecliffe and no one knows exactly what happened.
Title sequence
Jade: It's supposed to be haunted by little children isn't it?
Olivia: My Dad tried scaring me with that story when I was a kid, I thought he was just making the whole thing up.
Luke: No, it's true. Well, to some extent..
Olivia: My Dad always said that the kid wasn't actually his, he just knew her mum and hated her, so wanted revenge through the orphan.
Luke: Something like that, I wish I knew the full story.
Olivia: I've found it on my phone.
"Moorecliffe Massacre: On Halloween, 1943 an escaped prisoner sought revenge on the likes of his ex wife. A child who was a resident at the orphanage was the result of an affair in previous years. The prisoner was sentenced for life due to the murder of his former wife, after finding out "their" child was not actually his after the father revealed himself at a family gathering. After escaping from the prison the man was determined to find the child, after learning the child's location from a recent newspaper article with a photograph of the orphans. He instantly set out to the orphanage and upon arriving, told all staff that he was the father of the child and had returned to take her home. He was let through to see the child, and in seeing the resemblance of his betraying wife, he went insane. No traces of any of the orphans were found. Rumours have it that the spirit of the orphans still roam the halls, scaring away all trespassers, and that the prisoner is still alive, but no one knows where.
Friday, 1 March 2013
Analysing points
The first shot, overlay, reverse, in order to make the audience feel like there's something wrong with the place
Clip two - POV of the asylum escapist that murdered the orphans
Clip two - POV of the asylum escapist that murdered the orphans
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