Nine Frame Analysis

9 Frame Analysis

4 Seconds

The words appears on the screen fading in with a dark background giving it a creepy edge.

3 seconds

We can finally see the words on the black background it gives a sense that a story is going to be told and soemthing is going to happen on that day.

3 seconds

Here there is a close up of her eyes making her look thoughtful and almost scared.

                                                                       3 seconds

Here it is quite a quick shot moving quite fast and it starts to make the film more fastpaced so it looks like it is leading up to something

2 Seconds

The doll definately makes this frame look really creepy and the doll looks dead yet weak and delicate.

2 Seconds

In this frame she looks happy but it does not seem that her happiness is going to last very long.

                                                                     5 Seconds

This is another quick shot and creates the scenery , the camera spins around from the girls point of view.  

12 seconds

In this frame she is still going around on the roundabout, the fact that she is just lying on the roundabout and it is not a sunny day and shows that soemthing is off.

 

                                                                         5 Seconds

In this frame we see a women spinning her around it seems like something very normal yet still gives of a creepy feeling.

Sub-Genres of Horror

1) Psychological Horror:
 Psychological horrors use a characters fears, beliefs, guilts and emotional instability to build tension. Because of this, this particular genre is subtle in its methods of scaring an audience as it does not include a lot of scenes with physical harm, violence or gore but looks into the human psyche and psychological vulnerabilities. it choses to expose the possible evil hiding behind normality and so deepens the plot of the overall story. 

Examples- The shining(Stanley Kubrick) 
        - Rosemary's Baby(Roman Polanski) 
        - The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick)


2)Slasher Horror: 
Slasher Horror films focus around a psychopathic killer stalking and murdering its victim. They typically devote more screen time to portray a murder and so contain violence and often suspense. Frequently such films tend to create ominous and threatening tones through concealing the identity of the killer and gives the killer an unstoppable and uncontrollable quality. The normal setting used tends to be one that is a normal environment that then becomes the target of terror. 

Examples - Psycho(Alfred Hitchcock)
         - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(Tobe Hooper)
         - Halloween (John Carpenter) 


3)Supernatural Horror: 
Supernatural horror centres around unknown beings that are not found in reality, such as ghosts, demons and devils and so normally explore such things ruining the life of the protagonist. This sub-genre is rooted in folklore and religious tradition and so relies upon special effects, eerie lighting and,commonly, isolated settings. 

Examples - Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
         - The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
         - Paranormal Activity(Oran Peli) 

4)Action Horror: 
This sub-genre places an emphasis on the abilities of humans when faced with impossible situations, battles with evil forces or supernatural beings. It looks at the characters struggles and their skills and plans in these situations. In short how the protagonist will battle their nightmares. 

Examples - The Ghost Rider(Mark Steve Johnson) 
         - Alien(Ridley Scott) 
         - Dawn of the Dead (Zachary Snyder)

Incubus Risk Assesment

Our filming aims for each lesson

Friday 1st February- we have to shoot the clip of the trunk we will show this as follows:

1.       We will have  to show a cloaked figure walking towards the trunk; we will make this quite snappy and short.

Monday 4^th February-(media lesson)

1.       Go through the plan

2.       Organise what we have to bring in tomorrow

 Need to take picture of Maria and Seema

Tuesday 5^th February (Media Lesson)

1.       The figure will be holding a knife with blood on it (she has the knife in her hand rather than picking it up from the trunk as planned before) we can have her twirling the knife around so we can see the blood/or cleaning it with a cloth and seeing it being stained?

2.       If that is fine then we should get a shot of the cellar door closing by itself with a bang for effect.

3.       We should start deciding what our company name etc. is going to be called, we also need to think of how we are going to present it at the beginning of the film, and we need to work on how we are going to do our credits.

Tuesday 5^th February (Our Free) – We need to take a shot of Maria walking towards the cellar; this will be done as follows

1.       We will have her walking form the door of the canteen forward and pass the double doors, and then we will do match on action so we will shoot her coming through form the other side if the door, then we will do the same with the second double doors.

2.       The second option is she could be coming from the assembly door passed the kitchen way and pass where we put our dirty dishes all the way till we reach the same double doors so we have given her a longer walk which makes the cellar look much further away than it is.

3.       We need to get a shot of Maria crying in the chair

4.       Struggling to get out of chair

5.       If we have time we can have a flash back of Seema on the floor, we can start a bit early at lunchtime so it is done quicker.

6.       We can also show a trail of blood up to the chair in the cellar where Maria is sitting, but that can be done anytime.

7.       We also have to get a shot of Maria crying.

8.       At lunch get pic of everyone together in the form room

Thursday 7^th February (Our Free) – carry on what we did on the Tuesday free

Thursday 7^th February (Media Studies) –

1.       we can also film around the cellar like the camera is in anusha’s place or we can have it so we can hear swish noises like she can move really fast but we can’t actually see her.

2.       We need to also do risk assessment

Friday 8^th February (Media Studies)-

1.       We can again look at what our production is going to be called and maybe work on how we are going to use the music/ what kind of music are we going to use. How we are going to organise it. Plan for when we can meet up to do shots at home. Work on credits etc.

2.       We need to also do risk assessment

Monday 11^th February (Media Studies) –

1.       Do the same thing as we did on Friday if we have not finished, we can also see if there is anything else to film in the cellar, or we can finish working on our blog and updating it.

Tuesday 12^th February (Media Studies) –

1.       Again just, either do extra for our film or carry on updating our blog.

Tuesday 12^th February (0ur free)-

1.       We can finish what we are meant to do, either finish Maria walking through halls make sure shorts are perfect. We can make sure we have completed anusha and Maria shots in cellar. Make sure we have done seema lying on the floor with blood all over her. We can also do the crying scene if not done and the trail of blood scene.

2.       We need to also start to anusha’s scene if we have got the red eyes, we will show her coming closer and closer to Maria.

3.       In one if the frees maybe we should get them all drinking or something together like in the common room or at someone’s house, if it is at someone’s house that day we can also get seema to do her scene at that house

Thursday 14^th February (Media Studies) –

1.        We need to again check everything is done that needs to be finished at school. Carry on with the blog.

Thursday 14^th February (Our Free) –

1.       Finish of anything that needs to be done.

2.       In one if the frees maybe we should get them all drinking or something together like in the common room or at someone’s house, if it is at someone’s house that day we can also get seema to do her scene at that house

Friday 15^th February (Media Studies) - Finish of Blog or any extra stuff.

1.       We need to sort out a day in which either we can film at someone’s house on a weekend or after school, we also need to decide if we are going to do any of these at school during a free. We need to do the following shots:

At the house during half term

1.       Wounds on Maria when she is in the bed at the person’s house.

2.       We need to have her walk to bathroom

3.       Look down then back up and see Anusha in the shadow.

4.       If we don’t do the drinking etc in free we have to do it out house

5.       We need video of outside in the garden where we burn a picture.

6.       Make sure we have actually taken the pic

7.       We can also get a shot of a candle; this could be done at the house in the dark. In addition, maybe it could blow out suddenly and leave us with darkness and this could cause Maria to come out of her dream.

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