Thursday 16 September 2010
Concepts
Concepts Spider Diagram
To lay out our knowledge of horror movies concepts we we created a brainstorm in class on wednesday 15th of september. Since I do not have a scanner and it is quite hard to see a full A3 page on this blog I will type up the brainstorm we did in class.
Settings
- Mountains
- Basements
- Abandoned Buildings
- Cemetery
- Fields
- Old Houses
- Farm
- Carnival
- Spaceships
- Outback
- Hills
- Dreams/Nightmares
- Crypts
- Underground
Lighting
Creates Atmosphere
- Lack of
- Bright light
- Dimmed lights
Characters/Archetypes
- Pedophiles
- Mental Patient
- Cannibals
- Monsters
- Prisoners
- Criminals
- Mutants
- Aliens
- Serial Killer
- Zombie
- Ghost
Camera
Hand held
- Blair Witch Project, Paranormal, Horror, Thriller
Fixed/Spectator
- Hollywood, Action, Drama
Editing
Creates atmosphere
- Quick, fast paced
- Slow, can make something tense
Realism vs. Hollywood
- Realism is often in horror movies, with verisimilitude.
- Unrealistic can take you out of the action
Group Allocation
For the time being this is how our group responsibilities are allocated
Casting, Props and storyboard for trailers, Storyline for whole film
Dan
Uploading the bulk of research to blog, Research horror conventions
Alex
Research Lollita and lovely bones. Research pedophile films
Groups
We have chosen our final groups. I will be in a group with Alex Perez-Davies and Jack Dalziel. And am now following there blogs. There blogs are here: http://jackdalzielabs.blogspot.com/ and here: aperez-daviesabs.blogspot.com
Jack
Alex
Dan
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