Horror Mood Board - Shaquile

Shooting Script - Shaquile

 First scene: Student being chased down by the antagonist, however the antagonist’s identity is not revealed. All the audience is aware of is that the antagonist is holding the camcorder.


Set/page/description: Outside in the school grounds.

Duration: 10 seconds

Camera Shot/Angle: Point Of View Shot

Cast: Nhung

Second scene: All students in the school corridor talking about locations where they can shoot their horror project. They mention the three main locations in the Horror trailer, the old cupboard, the old school and the classroom.

Set/page/description: Inside College Corridor

Duration: 10 seconds

Camera Shot/Angle: Medium Close UP

Cast: Nhung, Shaquile, Tyler and Keiran

Third scene: One of the students go to check out the old cupboard and when they open the cupboard they are pulled in by the antagonist.

Set/page/description: Cupboard outside media class

Duration: 5 seconds

Camera Shot/Angle: Medium Long Shot

Cast: Shaquile and Keiran

Third scene/SHOT2: One of the students go to check out the old cupboard/ close up of his hand opening the cupboard door

Set/page/description: Cupboard outside media class

Duration: 2 seconds

Camera Shot/Angle: Close Up

Cast: Shaquile

Fourth scene: One of the students go to the old classroom and are hididng underneath a table from the antagonist. The antagonist walks past the table and stops.

Set/page/description: Media Class Room

Duration: 4 seconds

Camera Shot/Angle: Two Shot

Cast: Tyler and Keiran

Fourth scene/ SHOT2: The antagonist walks past the table and the student tries to retreat form underneath the table

Set/page/description: Media Class Room

Duration: 2 seconds

Camera Shot/Angle: Wide Angle Shot

Cast: Tyler

Fourth scene/ SHOT3: The antagonist pulls the student by his legs from underneath the table

Set/page/description: Media Class Room

Duration: 1 second

Camera Shot/Angle: Wide Angle Shot

Cast: Tyler and Keiran

Fifth scene: The entire captured student are tied up and seated in a row in a dark room.

Set/page/description: Media Class Room

Duration: 2 second

Camera Shot/Angle: Pan Shot

Cast: Nhung, Shaquile, Tyler and Keiran

Sixth scene: The antagonist holding the camera screams and the trailer ends

Set/page/description: Media Class Room

Duration: 1 second

Camera Shot/Angle: Point of view shot

Cast: Keiran

Setting (Nhung Pham)

These are the possible locations for our teaser trailer. We will be filming in and around Christ the king college as the trailer is also set in a college. We had an idea to film around the abandoned area of CTK and inside the corridors and classes to show the setting of a college.

Poster ideas: Drafts (Nhung Pham)

For our poster, I began sketching a few ideas gained from our horror poster textual analysis knowledge. As slasher horror movie, I made the masthead bloody to suggest it is about killing as slasher horror often involves a sharp object such as a knife or an axe. I wanted to show different aspects of the slasher genre including both the victims and antagonists on the poster.

Poster draft 1:

This is the first design I came up with. As slasher horror contains a sequence of victims being stalked and killed in a graphic manner. The idea of the 'Final girl' lead me to draw a female on the front poster screaming, showing strain and expressions on her face only whilst the background is dark, giving off a sinister feeling. Her face could be shown on one side and contrasted darker on the other side to hide what is going on which makes the audience intrigued of what may be going on.

Poster draft 2:

Expanding on my ideas, I chose to do a design hiding the identity of the antagonist and only show a dark figure outlining the masculine features. I wanted to show the concept of the killer being seemingly a indestructible evil force without showing the full identity. I also have him holding a knife to show that the movie would involve scenes of killing/abduction.

Poster draft 3:

For this design, as we are set in a college/school i thought to draw the antagonist behind a double glazed glass window, capturing the victims. As the students in our trailer are doing a project and is carrying a camera I put 'REC' to show that whilst they are trapped with the camera recording him. Also it shows that the camera is the main prop in the movie therefore the audience will immediatly be informed that it is based on recording and cameras.

Blackberry Conversation: Audience Research - Shaquile

Wes Craven - Tyler Mason

Wes Craven was born on 2nd august 1939 as well as being a director he was a producer  writer and actor. He is most known for his famous horror films "A nightmare On Elm street".

The information below shows the awards he has obtained through out his life time,the research was gathered from wikipedia.

During his career, Wes Craven won nine cinematic awards and received three nominations.
In 1977, he won the 'Prize of the International Critics' Jury' in the "Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival" for his film The Hills Have Eyes.
In 1985, his horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street won the 'Critic's Award' at the "Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival".
In 1992, the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film presented him the Pegasus Audience Award for the thriller The People Under the Stairs. His Fantasporto won the International Fantasy Film Award for Best Screenplay while the Best Film award went to his film Wes Craven's New Nightmare, the final A Nightmare on Elm Street film he directed. His Shocker was also nominated for Best Film in 1990.
The Gérardmer Film Festival granted him the Grand Prize in '97 for Scream.
He was nominated for Best Director for Scream at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA, in 1997.
In 2006, he was honored at Spike TV's Scream with the Mastermind Award (the tribute was presented to him by Neve Campbell).

Directors BIO - Tyler Mason

In order to understand were directors got there ideas for when making films I have decided to read information on a range of popular directors and write and short biography on them and discuss their relevance to the horror genre.

Pictures taken and what we intend to use them for. - Tyler Mason

we took this image of the camera lens.it was initially meant to be used for the poster. The idea behind it is that the lenses reflections would contain the face of the antagonist and would play on the narrative of the film, as the camera is a key prop in the film.

Audience Research Result: Video (Nhung Pham)

This is Norman, a student studying at Christ the King Sixth form who I asked to take part in answering some questions for our horror research, sharing his thoughts and feelings as this will be useful for some ideas towards our trailer.

Audience research Part 5 - Tyler Mason

1. Tell us about yourself, how old are you and what do you enjoy doing during your free time?
Sports
2. What are your fears and phobias and why?
Nothing
3. What do you think about horror movies? Do they scare you or is it too predictable?
To predictable
4. Is the storyline important or just the moments that would make you jump?
Just the moments that make me jump.
5. Are you in favour of horror movies being realistic or not?
I dont care as long as there scary
6. What do you expect to see in a horror movie?
a monster of some sort
7. What is your favourite horror movie?
childs play
8. What did you like about it and your favourite scene?
To much to choose from.
9. What is your least favorite horror movie and why?
the ring it was to confusing
10. Who in your opinion is the most influential horror director of all time?
Dont no.

Audience research Part 4 - Tyler Mason

1. Tell us about yourself, how old are you and what do you enjoy doing during your free time?
Im 17 im mostly at college
2. What are your fears and phobias and why?
snakes because they just look devilish
3. What do you think about horror movies? Do they scare you or is it too predictable?
very predictable.
4. Is the storyline important or just the moments that would make you jump?
not really
5. Are you in favour of horror movies being realistic or not?
realistic
6. What do you expect to see in a horror movie?
blood and violence

7. What is your favourite horror movie?
Saw
8. What did you like about it and your favourite scene?
Hard to choose
9. What is your least favorite horror movie and why?
I dont no
10. Who in your opinion is the most influential horror director of all time?
The guy who made nightmare on elm street.

Audience research Part 3 - Tyler Mason

1. Tell us about yourself, how old are you and what do you enjoy doing during your free time?
music
2. What are your fears and phobias and why?
I dont no.
3. What do you think about horror movies? Do they scare you or is it too predictable?
some are ok.
4. Is the storyline important or just the moments that would make you jump?
not really as long as there is jumpy bits.
5. Are you in favour of horror movies being realistic or not?
i dont mind.
6. What do you expect to see in a horror movie?
violence and fighting.
7. What is your favourite horror movie?
Not really a big fan of the genre
8. What did you like about it and your favourite scene?
N/A
9. What is your least favorite horror movie and why?
N/A
10. Who in your opinion is the most influential horror director of all time?
I have not got a clue.

Audience research Part 2 - Tyler Mason

1. Tell us about yourself, how old are you and what do you enjoy doing during your free time?
Socialize with my friends 
2. What are your fears and phobias and why?
Spiders they just look creepy
3. What do you think about horror movies? Do they scare you or is it too predictable?
I cant watch them they scare me to much.
4. Is the storyline important or just the moments that would make you jump?
Stuff thats close to home really makes me scared.
5. Are you in favour of horror movies being realistic or not?
yes thats were the fear comes from.
6. What do you expect to see in a horror movie?
a good narrative
7. What is your favourite horror movie?
the ring
8. What did you like about it and your favourite scene?
were she climbs out the tv
9. What is your least favorite horror movie and why?
saw becaus eits to graphic
10. Who in your opinion is the most influential horror director of all time?
im not sure.

Drafts For magazine front cover - Tyler Mason

The draft follows the normal convetions of a magazine cover with the main image dominating the page and the bar code being place at the bottom left so it does not get in the way of everything else.I also have decided to include a puff I placed it just above the title which should attract people into purchasing the magazine.

I have not come up with an idea for the colour scheme yet so I guess more research is needed to be done to decide.

Equipment used to take photos -Tyler Mason

Soft Box

Bowens Gemeni Esprit Gm 500 flash kit.


 reflector 




Cannon Eos 400d camera

Part 1 Audience research - Tyler Mason

First ten questions asked to respondent aged 15 about his views on horror from the research we hope to get an insight into what people like to see when watching horror films and what triggers fear into them.The data I have collected has come from conversations on social networking sites such as facebook, phone calls and Blackberry messenger.


1. Tell us about yourself, how old are you and what do you enjoy doing during your free time? 
I am 15 in my free time i just play my ps3 and chill with my mates.
2. What are your fears and phobias and why? 
not scared of nothing really.
3. What do you think about horror movies? Do they scare you or is it too predictable? 
they dont really scare me there to predictable.
4. Is the storyline important or just the moments that would make you jump? 
story line is essential but I dont think I would jump.
5. Are you in favour of horror movies being realistic or not? 
if there not realistic its not going to be that scary.
6. What do you expect to see in a horror movie? 
Blood killings and thats it really
7. What is your favourite horror movie? 
the saw films8. What did you like about it and your favourite scene? 
Its realistic, when the women is thrown into the needles.
9. What is your least favorite horror movie and why? 
jeepers creepers because it is not realistic at all. 
10. Who in your opinion is the most influential horror director of all time? 
Im not sure who directs what film.