Deciding on our film name we searched on the internet of ghosts, monsters and paranormal activities. We found the name poltergeist and was going to call our film this as our monster in our horror film is going to be a poltergeist.
Poltergeist: is a type of ghost or other supernatural being supposedly responsible for physical disturbances such as loud noises and objects moved around or destroyed. Most accounts of poltergeists describe movement or-levitation of objects, such as furniture and cutlery, or noises such as knocking on doors. Poltergeists have also been claimed to be capable of pinching, biting, hitting and tripping people.
To make it unique and our own we shorted this name and came up with Geist therefore our 2 minute short horror film is called 'The Geist'.
I have researched this clip off www.YouTube.com. It's a short clip from the 2007 US film directed by Oren Peli. This is a similar visual concept which I am desiring to produce. The iconography has major horror elements in what I am wanting to use. The mise-en-scene location of the house, such room as the kitchen, living room and bedroom these are all locations in which make the film have verisimilitude making it more realistic. Therefore this would scare and give the audience the thrill that they want. The use of lighting is dark which takes the mood and feeling on a more spooky level. This lighting is effective as its an conventional feature of a horror movie so this is what the audience expect therefore this gives the audience what they want. Also it makes the audience feel like they don't have full control with there visual surrounding making them not scared of the dark but scared of what is in the dark. The use of the camera time on the bottom right of the screen is a feature that I would like to use as this shows the real time scale and implies the use of a home camera from the characters. The use of no sound at majority of scenes in this clip is effective enough as with no sound this builds suspense for the audience then when a diegetic sound occurs it will be more effective. For example in this clip when the female screams this diegetic sound is more disturbing.
Horror is a
film genre which I am going to use in my short film of 2 minutes. Horror forces
the audience to have a negative emotional reaction by playing on their hidden
mental fears. Horror films are often scenes that frighten the viewer and make
them ‘jump’. This may include supernatural paranormal, fantasy and thriller
genres.
Bringing an
evil force commonly of supernatural force into the real world; this makes it
seem more real to the viewer, convincing them that this could happen to anyone.
Evil supernatural forces/creatures such as ghosts, werewolves, demons,
vampires, monsters, zombies, serial killers and vicious animals however films
about the supernatural are not always horrific but more of a thrill.
A very famous
and popular film I have studied and researched is Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des
Grauens (translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; or simply Nosferatu) is
a 1922 German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max
Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok. This film was shot in 1921 and released in
1922. It was an unauthorized adaptions of Bram Stokers Dracula which is a
vampire with names and other details changed because the studio could not
obtain the rights to for instance, "vampire" became
"Nosferatu" and "Count Dracula" became "Count
Orlok"). Stoker's heirs sued over the adaptation, and a court ruling
ordered that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, one print of
Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential
masterpiece of cinema.
Here is the
movie from 1922
Boris Karloff
as Frankenstein’s monster in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
1950’s-1960
With advances
in technology, the tone of horror films shifted from the Gothic towards
contemporary concerns. Two sub-genres began to emerge: the horror-of-armageddon
film and the horror-of-the-demonic film.
Alien
invasions and deadly mutations to people, plants, and insects. In the case of
some horror films from Japan, such as Godzilla (1954) and its sequels, mutation
from the effects of nuclear radiation were featured.
1990’s
In the first
half of the 1990s, the genre continued many of the themes from the 1980s. The
slasher films A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween and Child's
Play all saw sequels in the 1990s, most of which met with varied amounts of
success at the box office, but all were panned by fans and critics, with the
exception of Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) and the hugely successful
Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Coming into
the 21st century horror movies have come the popular than ever
before. Here are some films from 21st century:
I am going to create and produce a short film which will be 2 minutes long and the genre I have chosen is Horror. It's going to have paranormal and supernatural aspects. The use of cinematography will be like a hand held camera used by a young teenage male called David who is the protagonist and he starts to see paranormal and weird things happen at college in his class room full of students in the mac suite. He will start to search the college after he hears a bang and the activities will increasingly get worse and worse resulting to the students in his class disappearing. This will happen in the time scale of an evening and resulting to him being killed. The murder will happen in 2007 and look like an accident however the footage will be found in 2009 revealing all.
Brief:
To create a short film sequence or a short film of 2 minutes.
For the film sequence these materials should include:
- A synopsis
- A storyboard
- A written script for the 2 minute sequence
- A recce report
- Evidence of casting considerations
- A shooting/editing log
- A risk assessment
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