6 Souls poster

This poster hints that he has multiple personalities as there are different blurred faces which suggests different personalities. The name of this film basically tells the audience that he has different "souls". It also has the typical conventions of a horror poster as it has the dark colour palette and the red title which suggests danger. The background of this poster is a forest, this is a stereotypical location for a horror film as it is dark and isolated. It also tells the audience that is from the producers of The Ring, it has this in red as The Ring is a well known and successful film therefore it suggetss that this will also be a successful film.

Poster

This afternoon I am going to being taking photos for my poster, I am going to have Andy and Liam in the poster and I am going to try and use hints that they are the same person but I am not going to make it clear in the poster because it would ruin the actual film. I am now going to do some research on other horror posters.

Filming

Over the weekend I shot some scenes in my house whilst walking around with the camera, I filmed the ornament spinning around slowly while it played music, I also shot a scene in which I started upstairs and then the music started playing, I then slowly walk down the stairs which were creaking to make it creepier, I then faced the front door before going into the living room and seeing the ornament surrounded by candles in a dark room, this is all from the victims point of view. I also filmed from outside my house so it is the villains point of view, I filmed from the front of my house and also from the back to show that the villain has been watching her. When i filmed from the back of the house I walked towards the door and grabbed the handle, this is showing that the villain is going into the house. When i filmed from the front, the living room light turned off and I zoomed into the window, this shows that the villain is looking for any movement by the victim. I then filmed from the victims point of view again as I done a shot from inside the house, looking out the window,

Storyboarding

I have been producing a storyboard today and I have changed the order of the scenes to make the trailer easier to shoot. It will start with Liam standing at a grave, the audience wont know whose grave it is, it will then go back in time to show what has happened, this will be the scene that Olivia will get killed, however, I will not actually film it, there will be screaming and banging but I wont show it, I will film the ornament that plays music, this will hopefully make it creepy, I am going to film the ornament tonight to make sure it will be ok to use.

Insidious 2 Trailer

I would like to use the same stucture for my horror trailer as the Insidious 2 trailer. I have wanted to use a childs toy that plays music to feature in my trailer as this is a typical convention of horror and is very creepy, I dont have a toy but I have came across an ornament of a women playing the piano, this plays music and it sounds like a childs toy so I am going to use this in my trailer. I will soon go out and film the ornament as I am thinking about either using it as the first shot or using it when the victim is being killed and not actually showing the murder.
S - 560 x 315 px M - 800 x 450 px L - 1280 x 720 px

Location Scouting

I have recently been out taking photos of places which I think would be good places to shoot some of my horror trailer, I will post the photos soon. I have also found a china ornament which has music playing as it spins around, the music which it plays can be made creepy in the context it will be in and this is a typical convention of horror.

The Unborn trailer analysis

The unborn trailer review from EmHall

This is a more indepth analysis of the trailer for The Unborn.

An extended analysis of past work

Analysis of past work dolly from EmHall

Poster Analysis

Horror posters from EmHall

This is a presentation I produced when we started this project, I thought I had already posted it, sorry for the delay.

New Plot

Last night I changed the plot of my work. The villain will be the victims boyfriend, however he will have a split personality, one personality will be friendly and kind, but the other stalks his girlfriend and this is the personailty that murders her. I will show this by using two different characters. My friend Liam will be the friendly personality, he grieves his girlfriends death as he cant remember killing her. My friend Andy will be the personality that is the villain, when I show that he is stalking his girlfriend it will be Andy who I am filming to show that it isnt the same mindset as his other personality.

PITCH PROGRESS

Video Update

Insidious 2 Analysis

Plot update

Today I thought that instead of just having a typical horror story of being haunted I would make a twist which is that the murderer isn't actually being haunted but the guilt he feels makes him believe he is as he is seeing the young girl everywhere and feels her in his presence, this is just a quick update, I am currently producing a more in depth presentation on horror trailers. I will post it soon.

Location scouting

Today I spoke to my teacher about how I would like to shoot some of my trailer at Wallington Hall as it is a grand house and how it reminds me very much of Harry Potter. As it is an old house I think it would be a creepy location and will improve my trailer. I plan to email them to see if I am allowed to film there as I am unsure due to it being the national trust. I also spoke to my teacher about filming in the Newcastle library as there is a spiral staircase. I will go and see if it is a good place to film as I have never been to that library before, if I think it will be a good place to film then I will also ask if I can shoot some footage there too.

Trailer Analysis Presentation

More trailer reviews from EmHall

More trailer reviews

Its the first day of the new year at school and I am currently working on a powerpoint reviewing more horror trailers, ones in which are similar to what I would like to produce. I will post it soon!

Theories

Ive been doing some research on horror films and trailers and i came across Todorov's Narrative Theory. Izeta Todorov was a Bulgarian structuralist linguist publishing influential work on narrative from the 1960s onwards. He suggested that stories begin with an equilibrium or status quo where any potentially opposing forces are in balance. This is then disrupted by some event, setting in chain a series of events. Problems are solved so that order can be restored. 

Todorov suggested that conventional narratives are structured in five stages:

- A state of equilibrium at the outset.

- A disruption of the equilibrium by some action.

- A recognition that there has been a disruption.

- An attempt to repair the disruption.

- A reinstatement of the equilibrium.

This type of narrative structure is very familiar to us and can be applied to many 'mainstream' film narractives.

I also came across Propps theory. Propp was a Russian critic, he was interested in the narrative of folk tales. He noiced that often many Folk tales were similar in a variety of areas, he identified a theory about characters and actions as narrative functions. According to Vladimir Propp, characters have a narrative function; they provide a structure for the text.

The typical characters he found were:

-The Hero- a character that seeks something.

-The Villain- who opposes or actively blocks the heros quest.

-The Donor- who provides an object with magical properties.

-The Dispatcher- who sends the hero on his/her quest via a message.

-The False Hero- who disrupts the hero's success by making false claims.

-The Helper- who aids the hero.

-Her Father- who acts to reward the hero for his effort.

In a struggle scene Propp suggested this theory:

- There is a struggle between the hero and the villain.

- The hero is branded.

- The villain is overcome.

- The state of disorder is settled.

And the recognition scene:

- At this stage in the film the hero is recognised.

- or the false hero or villain is unmasked.

-As well as the false hero could be punished in this scene.

- Or the hero attains the reward and they live happily ever after.

Soundtrack Ideas

This is one of the songs i would like to use in my trailer, I would like to use the start of it at the end of the trailer as the title comes up. I would like the end of my trailer to be a very fast pace and then everything stop and go silent, this is when i want this song to play.

This is another song that i could play at the end of my trailer, these are my options as they are both very dramatic.

However, i also think this song is an option as it is has a good tone to it.

Video Update

Plan and Ideas- First Draft

Horror Trailer- Plan/Ideas

Plot So Far

I plan to film some of my trailer at the River Tyne and also the sea as Andy, who is going to play the murderer in the trailer kills Olivia and leaves her in the water, she will then come back to get revenge on him by haunting him. The police have been searching for Andy for years as this is not his first murder, Olivia leaves notes etc for Andy to find, trying to make him feel guilty enough to turn himself in. However, Andy refuses to turn himself in.

Locations So Far

The factories near the river

The River Tyne

South Shields Beach

Filming My Trailer

Over the summer i have seen certain places that i can film my trailer, as i have chosen to do a horror trailer i will be filming later in the day as i want it to be dark. A few of my friends are happy to help and be in my trailer, in fact, we are all pretty excited to film it now, as i have a clearer idea of what i want the story to be. My friends Andy and Olivia are going to be the two main people in the trailer, we are going to go to the beach and film near the see as Andy is the bad guy and kills Olivia and leaves her in the sea, as the trailer goes on the audience will see that its a paranormal horror as Olivia will haunt Andy. This is only the outline of the story i am hoping to do and hopefully i can expand on it.

Locations Powerpoint

Trailer locations from EmHall