Thursday, 24 September 2009

Ideas from other trailers







From watching the trailer for the 2005 film “The Hills Have Eyes” I gained the idea of having the music that the main character was playing in his room to keep on going until he walks into the forest and past the stalker at which point the music would cut off and be replaced by a creepy silence and then perhaps some evil sounding music.




I also got inspiration from the opening minutes of Dead Right, a short film produced by Edgar Wright, director of Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, in 1993. There are actually a lot of parallels between my story idea and this one, in that the first character that we are introduced to in the film is followed home and gradually gets freaked out and runs into their house at which point they are savagely murdered.

I gained some inspiration also from Edgar Wright, this time from his film Hot Fuzz which he produced in 2007. In my film there is a scene where the main character will walk past the murderer and this paralells with Hot Fuzz where both of the main characters walk out of the frame revealing the killer to be in the background.

Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Screenshots

Screenshots that I drew to outline the shots I would like to have in my Media Re-sit








































































Sunday, 20 September 2009

Prep For Monday the 21st of September

Basically my new story for my As Resit is a horror. In the first scene, one boy -the main character- is going out to his mates house and he has to go through a woods to get there. The film will open with this guy getting ready in his room and then having a phone conversation with his friend telling him that he is coming now. We then move on to scene two where he goes walking through the woods, after a while he realises he is being followed, he remains calm to begin with. He walks on for a bit then stops, his follower stops, he then keeps on walking and his follower starts walking again. After this he stops and looks back at the follower, the follower stops, he will be wearing a dark hoodie and dark clothes so it will be hard to see his face and this will creep the main character out. At this point the film moves on to scene three, the main character has gotten too creeped out by his follower and has started running, the follower gives chase. The main character gains a lead and hides behind a tree, then he peers back arround, his follower is nowhere to be seen. I am currently deciding on the ending for this scene, my options are either that a hand reaches round the other side of the tree and covers the main character's mouth and then there is a blackout which cuts to the credits and titles. Or I am going to make it that the main character's mate has gotten bored waiting for him and he has gone into the woods to give his mate a scare, he has worn clothes similar to those of the follower and then the main character who has become seriously scared just leaps at his mate and beats him to death with a rock thinking that it's the follower and only once he has done the deed then he realises what he has done, then there would be a blackout which would cut to the credits and titles.

The mise-en-scene would have the main character in quite bright clothes, like a red hoodie, dark jeans and a grey t-shirt. The main character's mate would be dressed dark jeans, a bright shirt and a dark hoodie over it, just in case I decide to go with the second option and he has to be mistaken for the stalker and beaten to death. The stalker as I've said will be dressed in all dark clothes if possible and his face will not be very visable, giving him that spooky mysterious feeling because we can tell so little about him because we cannot see him. These character's clothes will show a contrast between the good guys and the stalker because obviously they are wearing softer and more gentle colours than the stalker who wears all hard and dark colours and is generally conveying an aura of evil.