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Although you are still needing to include storyboards, scripts, photos of location, interviews with actors and research into your target audience you are short of analysis into film openings. Include at least six posts analysis films in your chosen genre and include some posts analysing a wide range of film genres. There should be twice as much posted so far Adam.

Costumes for film

because it is a horror film the outfits that the characters wear are going to have to be ordinary clothes, that people would wear in everyday life except the killer who will have to have a costume that shows exactly who they are meant to be. this is just a plain black t-shirt that could be worn by one of the characters in the film 

with Freddie Cruger and he is wearing a simple stripy jumper and a hat which isnt really a distinctive outfit that could be expected for a horror villain but the fact he has burns on his face and long sharp claws show that he is defiantly the killer in the films that he is in so it is possible to use ordinary clothes but have items that show or suggest to the viewers that he is the one doing the killings    

Shot idea and music for film

i had an idea today that i told my partner we could use and it is that we could have someone running through the woods and the camera would be placed tracking the characters feet with the leaves or mud on the floor and then for them to trip, this would show that the character is running for their lives, also to have a shot of the killer to be standing there and the shot to be on their shadow and then to see them produce the weapon that they are going to use to kill the character running this could be effective if we edit it right because we could make the audience jump the music would play a massive part in creating the suspense for both when the character is running the music will have to be fast paced and scary to emphasis the terror that the victim is going through and also to show how fast they are running. when the camera goes onto the killer character the music will have to be fast and daunting and then to suddenly come to an abrupt stop this could suggest to the audience that it is the end of victims life.

potential Location for the film

for the location of the film me and my partner Will thought that Ashtead common would be a pretty good place as it is looks isolated which is something that horrors seem to use like in Jeepers Creepers in the opening when the Brother and Sister are in the car on there way home and they are on the road which has no cars or houses on. We are thinking of doing something similar. here are some pictures of potential locations where we may have our film. also abandoned houses are used a lot in horror films churches, churches are represented as being scary because of the clash between god and the devil both religion and

Film research and planning

For the film me and my partner are going to be doing, we are thinking about doing a horror film, we chose this oppose to an action film because with a horror film the cliches and conventions are things that we cant do for examples explosions and car chases whereas horrors we can still stick to the same conventions like the night, the night is a cliche because of the limit of light which a lot of people find scary it is also use in a lot of horror films me and my partner have looked at a few films like Halloween and The Grudge 2.

Opening two minute analysis of The Grudge 2

In the opening two minutes of The Grudge 2 its completely dark for a split second and then a burst of light in different colours appear which is a signature for Columbia Pictures who are the distribution company for the film and they have editied the title which has "Columbia" writen with a lady holding a tourch this changes

it then changes to the word Grudge which replaces Columbia and the lady with the touch turns into a scary skeleton woman this screen shot will show you.

the music used in the opening is quite and gradually gets louder with a dark and ere feel to it. there is a close up of a semi open door that closes and the sound of a creaking door is a convention of a horror film this is another feature that is for ghost  house pictures also there is non-diegetic sound of a girl singing this is a common cliche for horror films there is something thing about children in horror films that people find exceptionally scary i believe it is because children are meant to represent innocence and that is why people find them scary.while the audience hears the girl singing and the door creak then slam the logo of ghost house pictures appears through the key hole of the door and the

180 degree rule

This scene shows the 180 degree rule staring Will and Jack and filmed by me uploaded to youtube.

the 180 degree rule is when two people are talking and the directors choose what side of the scene they are going to film from. when they have decided they cant move onto the otherside this will cause the scene to look odd because the actors will be in the opposite position to where they started. if your the director you have to imagine there is a line so they know where the camera can and can't go. this is a picture i found that will show you what it is.

Preliminary task Toilet Scene and analysis

The Scene was created by Sam De Almedia and William Huck i have edited it a little and added the credits at the end of the scene. the video jumps straight into the scene this is because it is a short clip so it allows the audience watching to just watch without getting bored. In the scene there are a variety of shots used for example a close up shot of the character we are introduced to first when walking into the toilets seeing what is behind him showing what type of place the shot has been taken from. you can see that there is a classroom directly behind the character who has just walked into the shot so the audience knows that the scene is shot in a school giving the audience wider knowledge even without telling them that it is a school.