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Thursday, 20 January 2011

Fonts

We decided researching and making a personal font for the credits in our opening sequence was a good idea in order to create a sense of our genre of horror. This is seen as an important stage when editing our film. We want the genre to be clear from simply looking at the writing and creating a sense of individuality.

Character Creation

Hope (Main Character)
Hope is an ironic name for the girls character within our film. She has been through a lot due to the incident involving her being raped. The name also resembles innocence, which also resembles her style of clothing which is pure. This contrasts with the idea of Hope planning the death of her friends.

Velna
Hope's former best friend. Hope aims to isolate Velna after being rejected by her after being raped. Velna is an intelligent character.

Charlie (Target 3) Sport Orientated. Ends paralyzed.

Aleksander.

Velna's boyfriend. He is a very strong minded character.

Emma.

The innocence of the group of friends. She is a plain and simple character with no ambitions in life.

Our name choice was vital for the project in order to characterise our actors. We tried to find meaning behind names in order to build upon aspirations and personalities of characters and to convey a message.

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

In order to avoid cliches I decided that researching what cliches to avoid would be a good idea. So as a group we researched 'horror movie cliches' on the internet and found a very helpful website which told us which things to avoid. This helped us in order to distance our ideas to ones previously made.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning Opening Sequence

Friday, 7 January 2011

Se7en (Opening Credits)

We found that the example of the opening of the movie Se7en was a very good example of the effect we wish to create in our media project. It was successful in creating the mood of a horror movie and the effect of the video led the viewer to feel curious about the outcome of the movie. The music being quite jumpy also leads the viewer to feel uncomfortable, along with the jumpcuts which create a tense environment. The mixture of the graphic effects and different close ups of objects is also an idea my group would like to try out. We thought this may be helpful in order to hide the identity of the killer within our film.

T arget Audience.

The film may appeal to those aged between 15 to 29 years of age, both male and female. The reason for this assumption is that the storyline is based upon a teenage group who deal with issues which relate to teenage life such as popularity within school, relationships and friendship. It could also interest those who study film in further education or as a hobby, as it deals with many issues relating to adolescence. Furthermore those who enjoy the thrill of a slasher movie may be interested in the movie, but due to the teenage appeal of being able to relate with characters it is likely that older audiences may not be impressed by the violence, bad language and sexual references. On the other hand it is possible that the movie may appeal to a slightly older age group, as they may feel a sense of nostalgia due to experiencing the 1980’s slasher movies such as: Halloween, Scream etc. It is also clear that this film is inappropriate for young children and the elderly generation of people due to the themes it presents.
The film may have difficulties reaching box office standards due to it being an independent movie, meaning the film has been made on a very low budget and no well known actors or settings have been used. Furthermore, British movies are generally less successful than American movies. These reasons lead to the conclusion that the movie will not bring in audiences as well as other movies.

The film Se7en has a similar theme to the film HOPE, so we believe our target audience should follow a similar pattern. This backs up our idea about who the film may appeal to. We can see on average that the movie Se7en appealed mainly to those aged between 15-29 and also on average adults up to the age of 45 also found the movie satisfying.

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