Thursday, 16 September 2010

15th September Lesson Vlog - Horror Concepts

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

Jack
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

Further Trailer Conventions Analysis

Due Date Trailer

This is the trailer for the movie due date, I embedded it from Youtube.

Due Date