Location Recce Meeting

Our group have met and decided that we will do the location recce at a later date due to the snow covering much of the location shots surfaces. The location recce should be completed after half term when the locations will look better for better judgement.

Hostility Script

“HOSTILITY”

FADE IN
EXT. ALL SAINTS ROAD
Late night with a dark and sinister setting while JADE GRAHAM is walking down the road on her way home.

CUT TO

EXT. BOND STREET
Late at night while a mugging is taking place

VICTOR CLARKE

Give me your money!

JOHN EASTMOND

F**k Off

VICTOR CLARKE

I said give me your money, or ill f***ing kill ya!

JOHN EASTMOND

Listen mate, jog on

CUT TO

EXT. ALL SAINTS ROAD
JADE GRAHAM turns into an alley way leading onto ALL SAINTS ROAD

CUT TO

EXT. BOND STREET
VICTOR stabs JOHN as JADE walks round the corner into the alley way.

JOHN EASTMOND

Ahhhhh...

JADE GRAHAM

Oh my god!!!

EXT. ALL SAINTS ROAD
JADE is running and VICTOR starts chasing her.

CUT TO

EXT. GABLE OFFICES CAR PARK
JADE running through the car park to hide from VICTOR

CUT TO


INT. GABLE OFFICES CORRIDOR
JADE finds her way into the building and hides in one of the open rooms.

CUT TO

EXT. GABLE OFFICE
VITCOR walks around the outside of the building and notices movement in one of the rooms

CUT TO

INT. GABLE OFFICE ROOM
JADE looks around to see if the coast is clear and sees VICTOR outside the window, she hides under the window ledge thinking he will go away.

CUT TO

EXT. GABLE OFFICE
VICTOR then runs around the other side of the building hoping to catch her before she runs out.

CUT TO

INT. GABLE OFFICE ROOM
After a few minutes of waiting she hears someone outside making noise and decides to make a run for it and upon opening the door is struck by VICTOR with an axe

CUT TO

EXT. GABLE OFFICE
Someone passing by heard noises from the building and checks it out. Falls over a bin making lots of noise. Looks Through the window to see JADE getting killed.

CUT TO

INT. GABLE OFFICE CORRIDOR
JADE drops to the floor leaving VICTOR looking through the doorway and he sees the person looking through the window. VICTOR starts to run to get outside to chase him.

FADE OUT

Group meeting

Our group met up today to discuss further ideas, we decided that further to our interview we are also going to create a questionnaire based on statistics of what people like. We will each come up with 2 questions to contribute to this. Also, we assigned job roles so that me and Jamie go round and take pictures of the locations and come up with shot lists while Matt starts working on the script and equipment list so that the group is pulling together for our deadline.

Location ideas

Me and my group members are going to decide the locations of where we want to shoot our opening sequence. We will take pictures of these and post them on blogger as soon as possible.

Storyboard

Audience Research

Yesterday me and my group filmed our audience research in the form of an interview which got feedback on horror films to help decide on our film opening. As the cinematographer i set up the camera and chose an angle which was suitable to carry out the interview. My group member Jamie booked a room as he is the director/producer and helped set everything up. My other group member Matt is still editing the footage with help and support from me and Jamie. The footage is currently still undergoing editing and will be uploaded in the next few days.

Research into codes and conventions

Horror Films

A fierce creature is the first typical element found in horror films. A lot of movies in this genre use a fierce animal to make a plot. Making that animal huge, savage and intelligent can absolutely horrify people. Using characters who are frightened all the time and are running away from the fierce creature also excites people. These characters always succeed in escaping from some danger, but they sometimes fail to escape from other dangers. For example, in Jaws (1975), the white shark is a typical horror element. Steven Spielberg uses the huge and fearful shark to thrill people. When some people get killed as they’re swimming in the sea, the cinematography shows only the shark’s fin and the bloody sea, but the audience is very scared because they realize how big and fierce the white shark is.

The supernatural is the second thing which is used as a typical horror. Ghosts are supernatural elements that are found in horror films. In many movies, directors use ghosts which always haunt a particular old place as elements to horrify people. The camera work is often simple shots of catching moving objects. The time set in the film would often be very late at night as this creates a darker scarier feeling. Having ghost movies during the day would not be as effective at scaring an audience because the dark creates the feeling of not knowing what is there, also horrors tend to be watched more during the evening therefore the audience may feel like this could happen to them, which is a big part of creating a successful horror. Non diagetic music used is often a shaky violin sound that is used to create dramatic suspense before something terrifying happens.



Murderers are typical story plots for horrors. Filmmakers often use a scary human character to be a typical element. In some movies characters wear scary clothes and masks while committing the murders. This creates the idea of not knowing who the murderer is and usually horrors take a twist of the victims knowing the murderer very well sometimes even being their friend. A typical plot would be about a group of teenagers getting killed by a murderer one by one. These films create suspense because you are not sure who is going to survive and the idea of the characters being teenagers suits the target audience of around 15-25. Sounds used would consist of lots of screaming to emphasise how scared the characters are and also loud dramatic music leading up to their deaths.  POV shots are often used in this type of film to show the perspective from both the murderer and victim, Often from the victim because this draws the audience’s attention and makes them feel the same worry that the character does.

Other links on codes and conventions:

---> http://www.slideshare.net/naamah/codes-and-conventions

---> http://lukemusicvid.blogspot.com/2011/11/research-into-codes-and-conventions-of.html

---> http://www.slideshare.net/kbamediastudies/codes-and-conventions-in-horror-films-9488865

---> http://www.slideshare.net/Mediawork100/treatment-for-horror-film-trailer-2698964