Budget and Finance - P3.

We don’t actually have a budget since most of our props and cameras are luckily already provided for us by school. Although, if we were to need a budget, a large amount of it would be spent on cameras. The computers won’t be needed since Ben has his own mac book with the software which can server the same purposes. As a result, our budget won’t be too large compared to how it should be.

Horror photos - P1.

We chose these photos because they resembled the abandoned asylum that we are basing our story around.

Audience Research on Horror Movies - P2.

British horror films: 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, The Omen, Hellraiser, Alien, Shaun Of the Dead, The Wicker Man, Sinister, The Shining, The Descent, Underworld, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Woman in Black, Kill List, etc.

Psychological horror films: The Sixth Sense, The Cell, Blair Witch, It Follows, The Grudge, The Exorcist, Psycho, The Ring, Saw, The Woman in Black, The Shining, etc.

The target audience for a horror, and for our film, are people who are interested in the thrill from the adrenaline rush from the fear that is given from these movies. A common age demographic for psychological horrors would be: Teenagers and young adults, from the range of 15-30 year olds. Although this doesn’t mean that older and younger people cannot enjoy them too. This genre/sub-genre appeals to both genders, as they aren’t aimed at a specific gender, it focuses more on letting the audience to experiment with their fears and emotions. Although some of the more recent movies have featured a large number of female protagonists so some movies could be focusing on a target audience of females.

Shaun of the Dead - P1.

Shaun of the Dead

• Shaun of the Dead is a horror/comedy and it was released in the UK on the 9th April 2004.
• It was directed by Edgar Wright, written by Wright and Simon Pegg and it stars Pegg and Nick Frost.
• Shaun is a 30-something loser with a dull, easy existence. When he's not working at the electronics store, he lives with his slovenly best friend, Ed, in a small flat on the outskirts of London. The only unpredictable element in his life is his girlfriend, Liz, who wishes desperately for Shaun to grow up and be a man. When the town is inexplicably overrun with zombies, Shaun must rise to the occasion and protect both Liz and his mother.
• The budget was $6.1 million.
• It took £1.6 at 366 cinemas on the opening weekend and netted £6.4 million by mid May.
• On its opening weekend on the US, it earned $3.3 and was placed seventh at the box office.
• The film earned US$30,039,392 worldwide in box office receipts since its release.
• It was also nominated for a BAFTA thanks to its critical and commercial success.
• Production companies: StudioCanal, Working Title Films, Big Talk Productions, Film4 Productions.
• It was distributed by Universal Pictures internationally and Rogue Pictures in the US.

Horror Movie Initial Ideas - P1.

Initial Ideas.

So for our initial ideas we had multiple simple ideas that came into play. First one of the ideas was to base the movie in a school, with a plot based in this too. This was an idea by myself based on A Nightmare On Elm Street, where the caretaker goes crazy and attempts to kill the children, this idea is similar to the movie because Freddy Krueger was a caretaker that takes revenge on children that he cared for. I believe this would work because changing the setting will take a large amount of time trying to make the area not look like a school is also really hard. 

Another one of our intial ideas is based on the main idea we already got now, this is with me as Simon in an abandoned mental asylum but I die on screen with blood spitting out of my mouth, I requested for this to be changed because this is firstly an overkilled opening, plus that means I will need to hold a considerable amount of fake blood in my mouth without showing any of it before I die. Also this may take a large amount of shoots and will be bad to me as a person because fake blood will have to be made with syrup, flour and red food colouring, this would be very thick and sugary and will therefore affect me badly.

Now our original idea is where I am in a an abandoned asylum as a journalist, I look around taking notes and soon get killed by spirits. This is followed up by the friends finding out that he's missing. They go looking for him and are picked off one by one.

Submarine case study.

Media notes.

Seagull sounds at the start - suggests he’s by the ocean.

Establishing shots of the opening shots to set the scene.

Shot of Oliver facing the sea on his own creates the idea of him being alone.

Shrine of Oliver Tate who passed away, very colourful to suggest the character of Oliver.

Oliver is in full black clothes and so are all the other students. Although Jordanna is in a red coat highlighting her to others. Red symbolises love and Jordanna is who he loves.

Scene opens up bright in the woods as all the teenagers have fun playing together.

Upon doing something bad to Zoey he uses the word flagitious which means:

Scene with Oliver lying on the floor in his room, shows loneliness. The room is like by a light in the back of the room.

Writes to Zoey and therefore shows that he cares about her even though it’s technically his fault she isn’t at school.

Later Jordanna is no longer wearing the red coat and therefore shows the change in his interest towards her/her attitude towards her instead.

Next she has the red coat on again probably because she kissed him and took photos of it.

Jump but of Oliver on the floor bleeding with a camera looking down on him and Jordanna making them both seem inferior and weak.

Oliver’ mum is depressed that she was unable to get a career in acting.

Uses montages about parents with an old camera to make it feel more authentic.

There is repetition of the idea of evolution, Oliver looks in the dictionary about evolution. Then soon after we see a theme park with the title of 'evolution' soon after.

Kill List.

Kill List

Kill list is a 2011 British crime drama psychological horror film directed by Ben Wheatley. It was released on the 2^nd September. It was created in the UK and earned an overall box office gross of £87,970. Distributed by Optimum, and hosted in 47 cinemas, although they spent £1,872. The movie last for one hour and thirty-five minutes. It was also produced by Warp X, the same people who made Trash Humpers

Synopsis: When a British soldier returns home from Kiev he joins an old friend as Contract Killers. His disturbed past surfaces as he spins out of control during jobs and ominous employers raise the stakes. It was filmed in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in England.

Rotten Tomatoes, reports that 76% of 83 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review. It was rated on IMDB by 29,242 people and got a rating of 6.4/10. The average rating was 7.1/10. IFC Films bought the film to video on demand on the 4^th January 2012, it received a US theatrical release on the 3^rd February 2012. It got released on home video in the UK on 26^th December 2011 and 14^th August 2012 in the US.

Awards: Kill list won “Best Supporting Actor” for Michael Smiley. Nominated for: “Best Achievement in Production”, “Best Actor” for Neil Maskell, “Best Actress” for MyAnna Buring, “Best Director” for Ben Wheatley, “Best Screenplay” for Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump, ‘London Critics Circle Film Awards’ for “British Film of the Year”, ‘London Critics Circle Film Awards’ for “Supporting Actor of the Year for Michael Smiley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqkqF--v1tg