Setting within films

The Purge

This film is set on the streets of a friendly neighbour hood in America. By having this thriller set around and in houses makes the film more personal to the audience as this could happen to anyone. The idea that the action in mostly set at night time makes the feeling more ominous and eery. When thinking about our horror-thriller opening we think having our setting at night will make a more tense atmosphere for the audience. The costumes in this clip seem to be just everyday clothes, by having every day clothes makes things more realistic.



The conjuring

This film is set within a family home this again makes it more personal to the audience and helps bring more emotion by involving children as children are seen a very innocent and bad things shouldn't happen to them. With the action happening inside it brings the horror into their own house so it allows the











Paranormal Activity

This film is set through cam-corders the whole time, by doing this it looks like your in the lives of the characters, as its there everyday lives being filmed by each other. Most of the film is set within in a home with paranormal activity surrounding them all the time this brings tension to the audience and fear as children are the victims within this film.

Horror Questionnaire

Please can you fill out our Horror Questionnaire if you have the time. Thanks.

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Sound in Horror

Sounds in horror makes the audience to feel frightened,nervous and anxious as they get the feeling of anticipation. Sound in horror includes high and low pitch and tones of sound. These sounds create a sense of nerve as the audience are aware of what comes after these sounds.

low pitch music:
Low pitch music is used in films to create a sense of danger. In the film Jaws, low pitch music slowing building a higher tempo, was played to create a dramatic tone and to create a sense of danger. Every time this music occurred in the film the audience understood Jaws was coming and the characters where in trouble. This low pitch sound made the film thrilling and shows how sound can easily create tone. This sound is still one of the most famous sounds of movie history.

High pitch music:
High pitched sound are used in films to build fear and to create suspense and anticipation in the film. In the the film Psycho, the shower scene uses high-pitched string instrument notes with very fast attack to build the tempo, tension and to create fear.

Lullaby music:
Lullaby music has become more popular with horror as the sense of innocents and children singing is scary for the audience listening. Lullaby music can be twisted and altered to make the lullaby sound frighting. You can do this by changing the words in the song to horror related words such as death and die. This makes the audience feel scared and worried about the following scenes.

No music:
Silence can also be used in films to create tension as the audience anticipate the next sound which is usually the next scare or a everyday sound which leads to a sudden scare which catches the audience off guard

Evaluation:

From my group members work I understand that different types of music are used to to create different effects within a film, for example low pitched music can be used to create a tense dramatic tone to give the audience a sense of danger or uncertainty.  Directors use music to manipulate the audience to feel a certain emotion. 

Ideas for our Horror

Group Members work

In the lesson the other day we started to talk about the idea in my previous post further and discussed in ways of which we could actually film and make this story as well as starting to come up with shot lists. However the further we looked into this idea the more issues we noticed with it.

First of all we began to notice how we would need a bunch of children to help us film this as we were planning on having some possessed children. This we then thought would be too hard to accomplish as only I had a younger brother. Furthermore we also realised that a lot of the shots and technical aspects of our story that we would want to do, would be very hard for us as we do not have the professional equipment for it. For example we cannot do a steady pan shot or tracking shot in the woods as there is no hard flat floor to balance the tripod on. As well as this we decided that having more than 2 or 3 people in the entire piece would be too hard as well as be too complicated just for the first 2 minute opening. We then started to discuss how having only 1or 2 characters makes the opening broader and more of a thriller with mystery so therefore we came to the conclusion that we had to come up with a new story idea.

 We now know and have come to the conclusion that we only want 1 or 2 characters and for it to situate within a household to make it easier. As well as this we also realise that as it is a horror thriller it is good to be inside a home as it brings the danger to your home and makes it scarier and anticipating for the audience. Furthermore we want a very mysterious start with not a lot happening or a lot giving away as this will add to the tension and give the thriller the horror tone we want with the mysterious vibe. We also want to add to this with the loss of sound and when there is sound it is quiet so when something does happen it comes as a big shock which adds to tension. Furthermore we were thinking of using sound to sync with the editing. So when the beat heats or it gets faster the cutting syncs with this to add to the dramatic of the opening and create tension. I was inspired with this after watching and analysing the shutter island opening. We thought the sound could be incorporated with the editing to gain tension like a typical thriller and then maybe this beat or editing can get faster to heighten the tension or vise versa. Therefore we have learnt that before jumping to conclusions with ideas we must thoroughly see them through of how we can do it and if it is possible. I feel this was a very good learning curb and we now know exactly what we need to do.

Evaluation
At first we thought our first idea was a very good idea and that it could potentially work and from all our skills we would be able to peruse it. However realistically when we discussed further none of us knew any small children that would be able to film with us and there were a few draw backs. Therefore we then came up with this second idea; with this idea we knew that we would be more capable and would be tense and thrilling as the plot happens in a house where one person is the victim.
I feel by having to change our idea I have developed my skills; I was able to see the flaws within the initial idea so I think that with this idea when filming I will be able to pick out the flaws and change them to make our 2 minute opening to our full potential.

Audio blog

The following link is a link to a mp3 audio file of our conversation of ideas and what we are going to do, as well as what we think is a good, bad and why we think this. However to listen you have to download the mp3 file by pressing the text saying "download" in blue.

Audio Blog Link

Continuity Task - Final Cut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYqmuPusu5M

With our final cut we decided to re-film all our scenes as none of them were good enough before. When re-filming our continuity task we looked at all the problems we faced and made sure we saw to the previous problems to make sure our continuity task final cut is majorly better technically. We have included all the shots that we needed to like: shot reverse shot, match on action, pan and tilt shots as well as keeping the 180 degree rule, which we broke in the last cut. In this final cut we also used a variety of other shots like higher and lower angles and had a longer clip and more footage. With our final cut we improved a lot technically and our story even improved.