analysis of supernatural season one and two

The sound matches the mood
Facial expression(s)
In between scenes the image on the screen doesn't fade to black it just cuts to a black screen.
The costumes ; both the main characters wear jeans that look faded/worn out, dean wears either a normal T-shirt or a polo shirt with a leather jacket or a normal top over it. He has a small amount of stubble this makes him look rugged this is important because dean is a strong, protective, loyal, determined, car crazy and can be slightly emotionally detached so his costume reflects those parts of his character. He also wears a leather jacket that is too big for him this is important because it was his dads jacket and he is trying to fill his dads shoes
Sam on the other hand usually wears checkered button up shirts with a normal jacket over the top of it and worn out jeans. The checkered shirt reflects his brainy nature.





The font used on the end credits looks like typewriter font and is white so it stands out on the black background, this pairs well with the creepy background sound of the credits

Season one episode 21 "Devils Trap"
In one of the scenes where they are in the car talking to each other the camera cuts between Sam and Dean using side shots of their faces which stand out against that black background.
Lights flash against their faces which creates more shadows and matches the dark atmosphere.
From the end of one scene and in to another their is the sound of a guitar and drums in the background until Dean and Bobby start talking, shadows play on bobby's face.





The sound of a dog frantically barking outside interrupts their conversation then suddenly stops this puts everyone on edge a few seconds later someone that has been possessed by a demon kicks the door open and storms in.
During the interrogation scene there is a fire burning in the background, it could be interpreted as representing hell.
In this particular scene the use of shadows, sparse lighting, eerie background music, facial expressions and fire add to the atmosphere of the scene.
Contacts are used to give people 'demon eyes' (usually black) that show when the demon possessing someone reveals itself to one of the hunters when its trapped.
The camera focuses on dean and Sam who is in the background goes blurry and vice versa when the camera switches to Sam.
Near the end when Deans talking about killing possessed people and what he would do to protect Sam and their dad you can hear the sound of a piano in the background.
At one point the lights flicker and the wind picks up and because the characters are already on edge this makes the atmosphere even tenser.
Also when Dean realizes that his father John has been possessed he backs away from him and points a gun at him at this point johns eyes flash amber this not only shows that he's possessed but also shows that its by a very powerful demon.

Season two episode one "In my time"
In this episode dean is fighting for his life and has an out of body experience this allows the camera to cut between spirit dean and dean lying on his hospital

rough footage, un edited and un cut

research on sleepy hollow / the writing used

The type of writing used in Sleepy Hollow

The type of writing they use on the sleepy hollow poster for the title of the film looks to be Grimm Calligraphy, then they have used a non gothic font for the words Heads Will Role.

What Sleepy Hollow about

Based on the book The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.
Based in 1799 the film centres around constable Ichabod Crane as he tries to solve the mystery of the murders that have been committed in sleepy hollow by a headless horse man. in the beginning he is sceptical about the horse man until he encounters him when he murders the magistrate Samuel Phillips, he loges at the home of the Van Tassel family and during the investigation starts to fall in love with Van Tassels daughter Katrina. in the end he discovers that Katrina's step mother has been controlling the horseman and he dispatches the horseman who takes Katrina's step mother with him back to hell.

Directed By

Tim Burton

Distributed By

Paramount Pictures

Production Company(s)

Mandalay Pictures and American zeotrope

Budget

$100 million

box office

It took $206,071,502

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start analysing title font used within my genre, look at shape and colour what meaning is being created for the audience
make sure I used media terminology when analysing film language
do a full timed opening, know when the title comes in, when the film company comes in etc.

do original horror opening idea, but have the girl be red riding hood, in flashbacks/montage sequence show the other characters.
use a music box for the sound rather than a clock, at the end of the opening have the music fade out rather than just stop.


wolf is still a predator but is a human and doesn't change into a wolf, during one of the flashbacks gran says 'wolf's come in many different forms', wolf doesn't eat her/ rip her limb from limb but will kill her. strong and powerful, easily over powers little red.




costumes:
preferably a red cloak for little red, if not a red jumper/hoodie








fake blood
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Fake-Blood#Movie_blood_for_splatter_and_smear_.28inedible.29_sub
costume
https://www.thelaughingstock.co.uk/acatalog/Adult_Halloween_Costumes.html

feedback
research the company of wolves
how will I visually communicate my opening?
locations? photographs of woods needed get as many photos as possible
props? what props will I need? as many photos as possible
what costumes?
plot the story line in 25 different shots (e.g do a shot for each main/important part of story line
mind map then draw it up

plus need to research openings of horror films e.g Sweeney todd

research and planning -
25%




construction-
50%




evaluation-
25%




what I need on my blog by next Monday:
3 analysis in mis-en-sen sound and cinematography, how have I been inspired. done
at least two opening title sequences, shot by shot analysis underneath. Done
good quality story board, scan on at school
experiment with titles and fonts based on your research, needs to be linked to title and what it means, analyse titles and what they suggest, how does it link to my genre. Done
draft screenshots of the beginning of your filming. done
also need a draft film footage by the end of the term. To be done next weekend


research into target audience, who will watch it, what will they expect
research production companies, who will produce and distribute it. Done

feed back

write in bullet points how the opening will progress shot by shot
then story board it including titles, fonts and different types of fonts that I might use from other horror films

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1) opening needs to introduce 3 key characters wolf, lj, red

2)how will they look on screen? suggest that something symbolic connotes who they are, what suggest who they are. e.g. have the wolf kitted out like a hunter to suggest his predatory nature.

3)find/source props which belong to each characters that they have with them

4)remember its a modern adaptation of a classic dark fairy-tale, what newness will my version have? e.g. cutting out and placing credits

5) over the holidays take some draft footage of fowlemeads and the second sequence I may do (so I can see which looks best).

6)possibly research lettering from Grimm's fairy-tale lettering to use for credits.

7)look at and analyse the trailer for into the woods

8) look at the style of writing used in Sleepy Hollow

how my opening will progress shot by shot in bullet points including titles and credits

1st shot - the music box starts playing, screen remains black
2nd shot - title in white or red fades in. stays on the screen for 5-8 seconds.
3rd shot - title fades out scene fades
4th shot - scene fades in. The scene will either be a view of the road that runs through fowlemeads and travel from there OR the scene will start with a flashback - you will see the feet of red and wolf and Lumber Jack run through the puddle.
The beginning of the opening credits will be in the puddle and will disappear when the water ripples when they run through it. If I go with this one it will then cut to the camera traveling through the woods and will continue to cut between the flashbacks and the present.
If I go with the first one you will then see red and then it will cut to a flashback.
5th shot part 1 (original idea) - this is when you will get a side shot of the subject (little red)
5th shot part 2 (new idea) -this shot is in the present and will be when the camera shows the road that runs through fowlemeads before it starts travelling
6th shot part 1 - the camera will become closer to the subject
6th shot part 2 - this will flick back to the flash back where more credits will be shown, you will again see the feet but they will be stepping on leaves or breaking twigs.
7th shot part 1 - the camera will then show an over head shot of the subject.
7th shot part 2 - flicks back to the present where the camera is entering the area where the subject is.
8th shot part 1 - the camera will cut to a flash back.
8th shot part 2 - the camera will cut to a flashback again, this time you will see the subject and the Lumber Jack (her older brother ( little red is about 13 so brother is about 18)) and the wolf ( i have yet to decide who the wolf will be, probably be the older brothers weird/slightly creepy friend).
9th shot part 1 - you will see something similar to 8th shot part 2
9th shot part 2 - cut back to the present you will see the subject from a side view and the camera will travel towards them.
10th shot part 1 - back to present
10th shot part 2 - you will have a close up overhead shot of the subject.
11th shot part 1- there will be a close up view of the subject
11th shot part 2 - camera will show an extreme close up of the subject, you will see their breathing getting shallower/see them stop breathing completely. the music box will stop playing
12th shot - an extreme close up off the subject, back in the present. see them stop breathing. the music box will stop playing
13th shot - fade to black.



How my research has inspired my film:
My research has been made up of mostly horror films but even though they're all slightly similar they have all inspired my film in different ways. For example the company of wolves inspired me to use the music box sound effect. Pans labyrinth inspired me to do shots of the victim as they lay dying, watching and analysing supernatural gave me an idea of how I wanted to do the costume and how much fake blood I wanted to use, it also gave me the idea to base it in the Wood's

research target audience/who will watch it/what will they expect/ production and distribution companies

My Target Audience is 12 and up
They will expect a lot of blood and gore. There will definatley be blood, not so much gore.

production company:
the production company will be BulmHouse Productions. they have produced:
Paranormal Activity,
Insidious,
Sinister,
The Purge,
Ouija
and Dark skies

Distribution Company:
The Distribution Company will be Brain Damage Film because they have been one of the largest independent Horror Film Distributors Worldwide since 2001.

the company of wolves, research/analysis 3

The company of wolves (1984)
This film is an adaptation from the bloody chamber by Angela Carter and is a horror/fantasy. It is a story about a young girl who is told by her grandmother strange and disturbing stories about innocent girl that fall in love with handsome strangers that have smoldering looks in their eyes, about unexpected disappearances of spouses when the wolves howl in the woods when the moon is full. The film is directed by Neil Jordan.
Neil Jordan is an Irish a screen write, novelist and director, he has worked on Excalibur as a creative associate, and directed company of wolves, Mona Lisa, Angel, Borgias and Interview with a vampire as well as the commercial flop We're no Angels and many many more. His 1980's films Company of Wolves and Mona Lisa went on win him acclaim. Some of the awards he has won are:
Silver bear for best director for the film The butcher Boy at the Berlin international film festival
An Academy award, best original screenplay for The Crying Game
A Guardian Fiction Award for Night in Tunisia
Was nominated for a Golden Globe twice, one for best original screenplay for Mona Lisa and one for Best Director for The End of the Affair
He's also won an Irish Pen Award.

What I like about this film is the fact that while it makes the wolf her love interest it keeps to the original Grimm story and actually gives you a back story as well (see the wedding bit). One of the main reason I think this is such a great film is that it has a great mix of fantasy/horror and it was made before we had the effects that we have today and the combination of sticking to the story and the lack of effects that we have today make it a great horror film even though it has elements of fantasy. The lack of effects also mean that everyone that worked on it had to put in a lot more time and effort for the desired result.
The use of sound in the film and the trailer is brilliant as even though most if not all of it is non diagetic it is always parallel sound.
one of the things that inspires me about this film is the fact that it uses minimal special effects. I'm inspired by this because now-days its hard to find a film that doesn't rely on Special Effects and instead relies on the smaller things like the music or costumes, this inspires me because it proves that you don't need special effects to make a great movie.

timed opening of The company of Wolves

As soon as the video starts you here a beat, beat, beat in the background and grandma talks over it, after she finishes talking the music changes but you still hear the faint beat, eat, beat sound and gradually the pace of the music becomes faster and faster. All the while you see different parts of the movie playing. at 0:26  writing appears, it says 'once upon a time' it then fades out after 4 seconds and doesn't come back on until 1:00 when it says ' there was a girl', it fade out again and comes back on at 1:41 when it say ' and there was a beast' before fading out again. It appears again at 2:10 and says ' You think you know the story'. At 2:37 you hear the girl talk to the huntsman who s the wolf and at 2:51 the white writing appears on the screen for the last time, it says 'but this is no fairytale and as it fades out the music becomes slower and darker.

rough photos for film opening

These photos are just some of the photos that I took of different location around fowlemeads. I took these pictures so that I could decide which location in Fowlemeads would be the best to shot my film at, in the end I decided to use a location that is only shown in the photos below. When making my decision of which location to use I considered the density of the foliage (how close the trees are together), how much light the branches were letting through and how busy that area was.

Again these are only a few of the photos I took to see which angle the subject should have their heads out and how the light would affect the shot. After taking these photos I have decided that the subject should have their head loll to one side and that the light would not overly effect the shot.

These photos show how i am going to start my opening, the camera will travel through a trees by the site where it will then show the person playing little red with a long side take. The camera will then use a close up. The final shot of the character will be an extreme close up, in this shot you will see that the characters shallow breathing has stopped. The sound of the music box that will be playing in the background will fade out/stop when the characters breathing stops.

However when I shoot the video I will either fold the towel she is on under so that you can't see it or I will cover it with leaves, I will also put more leaves on the part of the path that I will be filming on so that you cant see it.

1st poster idea for the fairy tale theme (red riding hood)