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Costume There are some typical costumes for characters in horror films, you would expect to see any little girl wearing a white dress with blood on it and her hair long and over her face such as the grudge, Samara from the ring and Regan from the Exorcist. Costume plays a big part in audiences identifying the antagonist at a glance, Freddy Kruger is famous for wearing a red and green striped jumper with knives for fingers and Jason from Friday the 13th wears a hockey mask which makes them both easily identifiable and famous. The clear style of a characters costume can quickly show audiences whether the character is good or evil.    For our horror opening we knew we wanted to incorporate some effects makeup as a way to demonstrate gore in horror. Initially, we wanted to go to a butchers and buy pig intestines or a sheep's heart, but then we decided this was too messy and gross and I had a fake heart we could use instead. From the beginning we knew the killer needed a mask...

A setting such as a forest or an abandoned building are typical locations for horror because they are usually enclosed, cut off from civilisation and unknown to the victim, the idea of being alone whilst running away/hiding from something builds tension and the feeling of helplessness. Forests are commonly used in horror settings like in Friday the 13th because they can be disorientating and characters can get easily lost in them, feeling hopeless and terrified, with no easy way of escape. Lighting Often in horror movies darkness is used because this limits the audiences vision which builds tension and fear of the unknown, the fear of the dark is a common fear that resides within most of us and so is effective in scaring the audience. The darkness is used to suggest it is concealing a presence that could harm the character and creates a sense of mystery, had some horror scenes been filmed in daylight it would completely lose this effect. Props There are a variety of p...

·   In this task, we deliberated as a group and came to the conclusion that we would film in a wooded area. ·   We would refrain from making the setting cliche, in order to make it original and interesting.  ·   In addition, we decided to make the victim young and innocent to make the killer seem much more sinister, brutal and merciless. ·   When we were generating ideas everyone wrote their own version of the story and then we chose our favourite parts of each and made a different story.

·   For this task, we watched existing openings for horror films.  ·   Once we completed this task, we came to the conclusion that we didn't want our opening to be funny and cliche.  ·   We realised we should use a drone for establishing shots to introduce the viewers to the eerie setting. ·   We wanted our opening to launch straight into the action and imply initial threat to keep the audience hooked.

·   We decided to do a horror film opening because we thought we would achieve more views as a lot of people these days are into gore and horror. ·   Also because the other Film Studies group were also doing horror so we thought it would be more of a competition if it was the same genre. ·   A horror film would create a  tense atmosphere keeping the audience intrigued and on edge.      ·   Horror seemed like quite a fun idea as it would be exciting to get creative and make all the gory scenes.  

The Truman show movie clip: ‘Do something!’ – Cinematography analysis .     The scene begins with an establishing shot where the camera is positioned facing Truman’s wife ‘Meryl’ from a slightly low angle, this low angle could be used to initially infer that Meryl will begin talking down to Truman. The scene cuts to the camera positioned behind Meryl and Truman is introduced sitting down in this scene. It can be argued that Meryl is standing in a domineering stance and in a way is attempting to assert aggression over Truman who is shown as powerless. As the two characters converse the camera continues to cut between these angles further establishing the divide between their personalities at the current point in this scene. Truman is shrugged down in his chair and almost seen as small in perspective to the rest of the setting (kitchen); this is done intentionally to demonstrate the dismal mood that Truman is in. Soon after this, the camera zooms in on Meryl adverti...