media mind map

Ideas for film - horror/mystery

 

Person layingh on the ground dying:

Bleed out
Breathing gets shallower

 

Cold colours:

Greys, black, white, blue, browns etc

 

In the woods:

Bare/dead trees
Leaves cover the floor

Bold writing:

White on black
Background blurry, cold colours

Background sound:

Clock ticking
Music box playing
Clock=classic background sound
Music box=more sinister because people associate it with innocence because they are associated with children

Makeup:

Pale skin
Cuts on forehead +arms, stabwound (s) on stomach; blood and bruises on arms and face.

Costume/clothes:
Warm/practical;
Trainers, jeans/thick leggings (old ones) and a jumper/sweater/hoodie (old)
clothes will be torn and ripped and will have fake blood on them.

story board minus pictures (i couldnt find any that i liked)

okay so heres the plan for the story.
titles + opening credits, blurred, cold/darkly coloured background, writing is bold and stands out
 sound of a ticking clock starts as the credits + titles fade
go from a slightly distant side view to a close up over view(if i can)
ocus camera on the character and blur the background
cut to a flshback (they arent flashbacks of what happened to them but happier memories, they signify that the characters life is flashing befgore their eyes)
cut back to the character, their breathing is getting slower and shallower and the sound of the clock is getting louder
flashback
cut to the character again (also whenever theres a flashback there's no sound)
he ticking stops, the character stops breathing, and you fade to black.
end of opening

screen shots/analysis 2

what i like about this is that he cold colours in the background makes the bold white writing stand out, what makes it stands out even more the fact that the background is blurry , this also draws your focus to aniel radcliffs face and then you notice he face inm the background.

this is when the music changes from being innocent to being dark and creepy s the child breaks the china dolls head and thatis what the camera is focused on

the thing that creeps me out in this sceneis the fact that they all do everything in synch and the tune of the music box in the background becomes sinister

the thing i like in this scene is the fact that you see the girls are playing with the dolld and it seems so inocent but then the music becomes sinister and dark.

In my film I'm either going to use a clock ticking or a music box as background music. One of the reasons I'm looking at using one of these two different sounds is that the clock is a classic sound for the genres im looking at doing, also it gives you the impression that their time is running out. The music box on the other hand is an innocent sound but if its used in a horror film makes it seem even creepier as most people associate music boxes with innocence and children.

research for horror and mystery genres/ back ground information

Horror

a genre of film that usually plays on its viewers most primal fears (our vulnerability, night mares, alienation and revulsion etc.)  to scare them/ get a negative emotional reaction from them. usually inspired/based on literature by authors like Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley and Bran Stoker.
Elements include: Torture, supernatural origin, ghosts, vampires werewolves, demons, gore, cannibals and serial killers.
One of the main producers of horror films are Hammer Horror, they are a British based film production company that used to dominate the horror film market. This was partly due to their distribution partnerships with every major film company in the United States. They have recently produced the woman in black.

Mystery

A sub-genre of crime films and thrillers, they usually focus on a detective/private investigator/amateur sleuths efforts to solve a mystery surrounding a crime, the plot usually focuses more on their deductive abilities then the actual crime as that fades into the background as they use clues, witnesses, evidence, circumstances and their deduction abilities to solve the mystery. the five most notable mystery films are (as rated by the American film institute in 2008):
1) Vertigo (1958)
2)China town (1974)
3)Rear window (1954)
4)Laura (1944)
5)The third man (1949)
there are two types of mystery films, open and closed. Open reveals the identity of the killer at the start of the story and showcases "the perfect crime", you see the protagonist (main character) unravel later on. Closed(whodunit?) conceals the identity of the perpetrator until later on in the story, this causes an element of suspense when they are apprehended as the audience do not usually know who it is.

inspiration for short movie openings/analysis 1

The thing that i like in this opening that i want to use for my murder/mystery or horror short film is that in the beginning you see her dying and that it then reverses. i want to do something like this but its the complete opposite, you will seem them as they slowly die so originally they are on the floor and slowly their breathing gets shallower and slower and if they are injured/cut you will see the cut get worse and they will bleed out. what i may also do is rather than have a lullaby in the background i will either have a music box or the sound of a clock ticking. Also i will have flashbacks in but they wont be a back story it will show that their life is flashing before their eyes and they see some of their happier memories, the focus will be on them one minute and the next it will be a flashback. it will either be in dull cold colours e.g. browns, whites, blacks and greys, or just in black and white.

photos for short film ideas; possible locations

So I ment to put this on a while ago but my computer broke so I wasn't able to do it until today.
Here are some photos of the fields behind me and I'm thinking of using but even if i don't fowlmeads is behind me and the woods are thicker there so i can use them.