Story Board of Incubus

Before we started shooting this was what we planned to do some shots we ended up removing and some shots we have added that are not in the storyboard.

Horror film Beginning: Plan

The shots we are thinking of doing:

•         In the dream there are snap shots to the cellar as Maria walks through halls and many doors to reach it.

•         Maria reaches the cellar, sudden black and then we see her tied to a chair, so do not know how she got there.

•         Anusha is in a black cloak and we can only see her red eyes piercing through.

•         Different characteristics of Anusha, e.g. swoop of cloak, noise of movement, eyes. Fluid movements within the flashbacks getting closer to camera.

•         As Anusha gets closer, Maria has flashbacks to her past where pieces that she has seen that have started to piece together to give  a sense of realisation.

•         Then Maria wakes up out of her dream suddenly as if to escape it. 

•         Maria walks towards the mirror in the bathroom and looks at herself, she now has red eyes. Then she goes to look away and look back and her eyes are to be of a normal shade.

•         Then Anusha is going to be near the back of the bathroom so that we can see her through the mirror and Maria is to smile at her in a very disturbing way giving us a sense of something wrong happening.

Setting

      At school- Using the hallways

      In school cellar- first look at Anusha and for when Maria falls and flashbacks occur

      At home- when Maria is out of the dream

Music

      Noise for when Maria hits the floor

      Music during the walks through the hallway to show continuity

      For sudden scary moments

      Heart beat during flash backs increase in volume.

Actors

      Anusha

      Maria

      Seema(dead body)

Props

      Candles

      Blood

      Eyes

      Cloak

      Wound Tattoo

      Tribal Tattoo

      Knife

      Old diary

      Photo

      rope

Flash backs

      To old diary

      To wounds on Maria

      To a bit in the house where they are having fun and drinking.

      To Seema lying on the floor dead in the bathroom

      Candles

      To a picture of Maria and friends being lit on fire

      Tribal tattoo

      Knife with blood on it

      1 tear

      Angry in room

      To book opening

The history of horror films.

The first horror films were released in 1890 pioneered by Georges Melies, at around the beginning of the birth of film. Combining surreal and dark elements to portray anxieties of the time/fears.Yet perhaps the most popular film, that brought the horror film genre to the attention of more people were Nosferatu in 1922.

In the 1930's movies changed a lot due to the advent of sound and so film makers had another effect to work with that added another dimension to the film. Now music could be used to build suspense and the monsters could growl and howl and the antagonist scream. A famous example of a film from this time was 1931 Frankenstein and Dracula produced by universal.

In 1950's-1960's there were again large advances in technology allowing for a shift in the fears portrayed. Now including threats/attacks from the "outside" aliens invasions and mutations such as Godzilla (1954).Yet this was also influenced by new threats of nuclear war. At this point Britain started to emerge as a producer of horror films such as peeping tom by Michael Powell.

Nosferatu

Dracula 

Frankenstein

Godzilla