Horror Prezi

Our Horror Prezi

This is our Prezi of our Horror genre as we have chose to do a psychological horror drama for our coursework film opening. Enjoy.

Montage of Actors Research (casting)

  

We went to a performance of some AS Theatre Studies Monologues and this allowed us to take into consideration the type of actors we would like to see, potentially in the film opening that we shall be making in the future. This montage shows some small snippets of the monologues by the Theatre Study students.

Genre research - Horror

We have chosen the genre of horror for our film opening coursework. To help us decide on the genre we did some research on horror films. Here are a few we've looked at. Enjoy.

This next one was us looking at the idea that something that is naturally not scary (answering the phone)happens and therefore makes an everyday action scary. Making it real for the audience.

Typical Sounds and Music in the Horror Genre

Typical sounds that are within the horror genre include:
-- high pitched screams
-- echoes
-- breathing 
-- sudden strings/ boom effects
-- piano base tunes

Also almost all of the movies we used to help understand the sounds used had a very ionic theme tune to add to the film opening. We intend to use the research of these sounds to add to the intensity of our film opening.

Evaluations of Three Film Openings

Video Of Film Openings

Below show the different posters for the three films and the evaluation/breakdown of the film openings.

Representation of Gender

After creating our poll we felt we should investigate gender within the media. We have therefore gained a deeper understanding of gender representation. We looked at this in class and chose to continue our learning outside the classroom.

Film Openings

We have been looking at film openings in class in order to begin our research of their typical features. We researched codes and conventions and chose to delve further into their generic structures.(See following posts). Here are some spider diagrams of our research into typical film openings.

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WHAT IS GENRE?

WHAT IS GENRE?

Comedy

-High key lighting

-Bright colours/costumes/props

-Voice overs

-Music/ beat/pop

-Feel-good story

 Horror
-Low key lighting/ shadows
-Fades
-Jump cuts
-Catharsis
-Chilling storyline
-Dramatic make up/ costume
-Chilling score

Romantic Comedy
-High key lighting
-Dissolves
-Semantic field of love
-Fades
-Shifts of emotion
-Typical storyline/ cliche ending

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Hello, we are Polaroid Productions and this is our blog documenting our train of thought and all of our work done towards making our film opening. We hope you will enjoy reading it as much as we will enjoy making it, enjoy!