My ideas for our final task;


I have been thinking of some ideas for mine and Hannah's final task, for the setting of the final task I thought it should be based at the Fetcham splash. Fetcham splash is a calm river place surrounded by woodland, there is a woodland footpath that leads up to the Leatherhead Crem which will be an advantage because it gives off a spooky vibe.

Me and Hannah will be the camera workers of the production and we will be using Chris and Ellen in our video. The typical character costumes I was thinking of was, a typical teenage day to day costume for the innocent character just coming back from a school on their phone talking to a friend about a crush. Also for the bad guy in the production I was thinking the typical dark hooded villan with a hidden face but their chin covered in blood, holding a weapon.

I think the best time to produce the film will be between late afternoon/early night time because I thought it would be affective if the teenager was walking back from school and gets ambushed by the bad character. It will also be affective because it gets quite dark earlier, this will help give off a creepy vibe.

 My idea of the plot of the whole thing would be that the teenager has just left a detention after school and is walking home on the phone to a friend talking about their secret crush, the teenager wants to get home because they are going out with a group of friends so they decide to take the short way home. Whilst walking through the woods the villan follows the innocent teenager, teasing them whilst they walk and eventually kills them, they friend on the other side of the phone hears everything. Some of the effective camera shots I think that will work well in this production is point of view, this will make the audience feel like they are involved and are actually there. I also think close-ups will be pretty great to focus on the emotion shared between both characters. I think natural sounding will be best for this production, i.e. crunching leaves as each character walks and the only voice heard in the production is the people in the phonecall. The villan will be silent, making the villan be even more scary.

Scream Opening Scene(1996)
At the beginning of the scene there is a calm atmosphere being at home, the scene begins to speed up when the phone is loudly ringing and is focused into a extreme close up. Using the extreme close up to focus on the phone makes the audience realise that the phone is a big part to the film. Throughout the scene and film whenever the phone rings it is always shown in a extreme close up camera shot. They also use this method throughout the scene with the popcorn cooking on the stove, this could represent that the clock is ticking because popcorn does not take very long to cook.

The first scene of scream has a very typical horror setting, surrounded by fields and woods with no neighbours near by. This helps with the film because it gives off a very scary vibe. The fact that this scene is also set at night time also plays with the audience minds and fits well with the setting.

The murderer in Scream has a very odd costume, the costume that Ghostface wears is a typical halloween costume which kids wear every halloween. The costume comes across scary because you can not see Ghostface's face, you can only hear his very scary voice.

Joe Queenan's guide to horror filmsAll horror moves divide into several different categories: slasher, zombie, vampire, mainstream horror, Asian horror and revolting Eli Roth films. Indeed, horror is the one genre in which the absence of cliches would ruin everything.

In most typical horror films young children are often evil, If one hears children humming innocent nursery rhymes in the background it is often lead by a gory murder.

Most horror films are set in rural areas mainly because it is a deserted area and there are lots of weapens in farms.

Horror movies also contain lots of scenes in which the living dead or the living undead zip past an open door or window, but nobody sees them. This can easily make the audience feel uneasy and it plays with their minds, It also builds up suspense and the unknown.

Things not to do whilst watching a horror movie:
- It is always a bad idea to go to sleep in the middle of a horror film.
- It is even worse to get in an elevator, a popular hideout of the promiscuously dead.