Assignment 9 (draft 2)

A

Key Code:

Joanne: Abigail:

Gledis: Vera:

Group work:

B

• For draft one, we all received a grade
because parts of the presentation were
missing.
• My individual grade was an .
• WWW: I put good detailed information on
each of my slides.
• EBI: I should put all of my slides onto the
correct presentation.

because parts of the presentation were
missing.
• WWW: My target audience slides were
efficient and had relevant information.
• EBI: I should include more detail in all aspects
and include images with every point.

B

Record of grade for draft one
• For draft one, we all received a grade because
parts of the presentation were missing.
• WWW: I gave a good range of conventions and
different films that met these conventions.
• EBI: I had realised that our opening sequence was
actually a thriller and so I wasn’t required to also
make a conventions chart for horror films.

B

because I hadn’t put all of my slides onto the
presentation.
• WWW: I had a good range of pictures on my
slides.
• EBI: I should put the slides that I was missing
up onto the powerpoint.

c

• From draft one to draft two, we made a few
amendments to our opening sequence idea.

• For this, we changed the ending as we
received feedback that it wasn’t exciting and
that there wasn’t a good climax.

c

• This was a challenge, as we found it hard to
recreate the ending of the opening sequence,
but we managed to overcome this obstacle.

• This change helped us to improve overall
because it made our opening sequence more
appealing to our target audience, and made
them want to watch the whole film.

D

Genre:
Thriller

• We have decided to use the genre Thriller.

• We want to use this genre effectively by using
a number of conventions such as
crime, possession, haunting and revenge. We
will use these conventions by using them in
our opening sequence to thrill our audience
which meets the conventions of a thriller.

Genre D

Thriller
• This has changed since our first draft, as in our
first draft, we thought our opening sequence was
Thriller/Horror.

• We corrected this and using conventions, we
found that in actuality, our opening sequence was
a Thriller.

D
Conventions of Thrillers...
Conventions Example Image Use/Develop/
Challenge
Fatal Use- Someone
Attraction becoming obsessed
after a relationship
Challenge – using a
female as the stalker
instead of a male.
Stalkers/
Obsession
The Fan Develop – Instead of
being obsessed with a
woman and or a
family, De Niro is
obsessed with his
favourite sports star
and stalks him.

D
Challenge
The Hand Challenge- it does it
That Rocks through using a
The Cradle women as the crazy
killer stalker who
seeks revenge instead
of the normal use of a
male
Stalkers/
Obsession
Stir of Develop – Its more
echoes obsession as Kevin
Bacon tries to find
the answers to an
ever haunting
mystery

D
Challenge
Eye For An Eye Develop – A woman
is used as the
person seeking
revenge for the
crime rather than
the typical use of a
male character.
Crime The Ambulance Develop – Not
giving the audience
a clear
understanding of
what the crime
actually is at first.

D

(Possible) Conventions of Thrillers...
Conventions Example Image Use/Challenge/
Develop
The Others Challenge – In this film
they made you aware
of the wrong ghost,
whereas in regular
horrors, the ghostly
figure is clear.

Ghosts
House On A Use/Challenge – They
Haunted Hill used the ghost to
create fear amongst the
audience and for the
characters.
They challenged it by
making the ghost
physically scary.

Challenge
Use/Develop.
The common feature of
wrongful accusation was
Primal used and it was
developed because the
Fear
character accused was
religious, young and
didn’t fit the stereotype
Misidentification of who would be
or Wrongful accused.
Accusation.
Challenge – It seems
to the audience like
there has been a
The wrongful accusation,
Usual as the only survivor is
Suspects then questioned
about the incident
that occurred and this
typically doesn’t
happen.

D
Convention Explanation Use/Develop/
Challenge
Our character is Using – We’re using
haunted by a ghost this as we are doing
Ghosts/Spirits in her home. possession which
can be quite a
typical feature.
Mysterious things Using– We’re are
keep on happening using this
to the character, and convention by
Mystery as she becomes included mystery all
aware of this, these the way through the
happenings get plot.
worse.
At the end of film, Developing – We’re
our character is fully developing this
possessed. But because our
Possession during the opening character is
sequence, the possessed slowly
character has a close and is aware of this
encounter with the possession.
ghost.

Inspirational Films E

What I found
Inspirational about this
scene is the kind of
lighting they used
through out the more
dark scenes
emphasises the
emotions of the actor
/actress

E
Inspirational Films
Black Swan
What I found inspirational
from this movie is the use
of close up shots which was
clearly present in this film
It gives a clear picture of
the characters emotions
and helps the audience to
connect with the character
by seeing their emotions so
closely.

E
Inspirational Films – The Ring
• The film that inspired me most is ‘The Ring’

• I want to use a similar long shot in our opening sequence.
• It’s an effective way of keeping the audience’s attention to the puddle of
water whilst showing the character come up the stairs.

• I also want to use a fast zoom in our opening sequence.

E
Use of costume and make-up in ‘The Ring’

• Quite frightening to look at and an effective way of scaring the
audience.
• The lighting throughout the whole movie is kept more or less the same.

• This creates a very eerie and creepy atmosphere in the movie, common
in most horrors and thrillers.
• I want to use dark lighting in our opening sequences .

E
Inspirational Films - The
Haunting In Connecticut.
• Another film that inspired me was ‘The Haunting in Connecticut ’
• Its paranormal theme has inspired me to make my opening sequence
about a haunting.

• Slamming doors…

• It especially inspired me to set my opening sequence in a building that’s
haunted. E.g. a haunted house.

• I would like to use old newspaper
articles such as this to briefly show the
history of the area. 

E
Inspirational Films – Rosemary’s
Baby
• A scene from ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ also inspired me.
Close up of hand reaching into crib

Draws the audiences attention
to what she's doing.

.

Allows imagination to run Close up of Rosemary’s face
It never shows what emphasises her shock, and
wild making the audience she sees, only her reaction.
uneasy. horror at what she sees.

E
Inspirational Films - Gothika
The particular scene I found inspirational about this film, where
the scenes where the ghost interacts with the characters by leaving
scratched out messages on their arms saying ‘Not Alone’.

I thought that a similar
idea would be a good
addition to our idea, as
the ghost tries to
communicate with our
character whilst she
sleeps.

I also took inspiration from the non-diegetic sounds, because they were creepy and
added to what was already a tense film.

E
Inspirational Films – Paranormal
Activity
Throughout the whole of Paranormal Activity,
the characters use their own camera to
document what is happening to them.

I liked the idea of this as it makes the viewing
experience more personal for the viewer as
they literally see what the characters see.

I want to use this in our opening sequence as
the camera shots made it more exciting for the
viewer, and we want to add tense excitement
too.

E

Inspirational Films – The Grudge
• The inspiration that I took from this film was
part of the plot – that the ghost was trying to
get revenge over her death.
• I also felt that the setting added to the
creepiness of the film, and so I hope we can
re-create this when we make our opening
sequence.

E

Inspirational Films – Cabin Fever

The camera shot for this scene The props of this
is a mini close up shot of his movie is very
face to demonstrate disturbing for the
fear, disgust and anxiety to the audience as it has
audience. disgusting images of
blood everywhere.

E

Inspirational Films – Cabin Fever
The movie has some kind of old
fashioned humour to it which makes it
more entertaining and interesting to
the audience.

In this scene the lighting was very dim
which makes it more scary because it
emphasis death, danger and fear. It
creates suspense to the audience as
they don’t know what is going to
happen next.

E

Inspirational Films – The Village

A scene where a character This scene has a mid shot of
discovers about the a character who is
supernatural things happening illustrating fear and also of
in the village in order to prove the monster destroying
to the people that there is things in the village.
something going on.

F

Theme/Concept
• An idea we had for the theme was Revenge
and the concept was Possession.
Injustice Ghosts
Grievance
Twists & Turns
Victims Enigma
Revenge &
Hidden identities Possession!
Vicious

Ghouls Suspicious
circumstances
Unsuspecting Mysterious
Shocking
Someone who has
revelations
been wronged

F

Theme/Concept
Another idea we had for the theme was Justice and concept was Death

Murder & Manslaughter
Righteousness
Revenge

Moral
Rightness.
Vendetta
Justice & Death!
A Cause
Mystery

Decay
Supernatural
Life After Death

F

Theme/ Concept

• These were our previous themes and
concepts.
• WWW: We had a range of different words
which helped us when thinking of our opening
sequence.
• EBI: We could have thought of more themes
and concepts.

F

Theme/Concept
• We did not change our themes or concepts
because it was suitable for what we wanted to
do.
• We kept the theme revenge and the concept
possession because the keywords on that
brainstorm helped to provoke new ideas
regarding our opening sequence.

F

Theme/Concept
• The way in which we came down to one idea
is as we like Gledis’s idea but had problems
with the choice of set being the school
• We later added elements from Abigail's
opening sequence and developed on that
• There were some bumps in the road as to the
ending of the sequence but after meetings we
came up with solutions

G

Research Of Topic
• http://fspp.net/warn%20poss.htm
• On this website, I found all of the believed
warning signs of demonic possession and this
all linked in with what we had originally
decided on for our opening sequence.
• The warning signs were things like self
mutilation, changes in personality and
attitude and blackouts in memory.

G

Research Of Topic
• On this website, I also found that the outward
manifestations of ghosts also linked in with our opening
sequence. The manifestations that we had already chosen
were listed on this website, and it included things such as:

• Knocking, banging or pounding being heard in one room.
• Electrical appliances turning on by themselves.
• A feeling of being watched.
• Scratching sounds being heard without an obvious source.
• And objects seemingly moving by themselves.

G

Research Of Topic
• http://www.yourghoststories.com/real-ghost-
story.php?story=2298
• On this site I found out that a girl who had been possessed by a
demonic creature at the age of 12, was seeing shadows appearing
from walls, covering all over her, hearing mocking noises and
could see a white round ball rolling towards her mother’s room
and also hear noises when she is alone at home.
• She was possessed until the age of 22yrs but still had a strange
feeling that someone was watching her when she went to her
night shift at the mental home.

H
Idea Development Option – Our
Previous Ideas. (the whole film)

• It starts with the opening sequence, where strange ghostly things are happening to the
main character.

• The main character slowly begins to find out information about who lived in her home
before her. She attempts to tell her family and friends but they dismiss it.

• The main character has a series of close encounters with the ghost. Whilst sleeping she
dreams of its life in the home she now inhabits.

• The ghost possess the main character slowly. Thinking she is on drugs, her family hosts
an intervention for her. At this intervention, she is fully possessed.

• Her family and friends, whilst trying to restrain her, collectively kill the main character
and burn her body. The cycle continues, with the audience being shown a family
moving into a newly built home where the main characters house used to be.

H

What Went Well/ Even Better If
• WWW: Our teacher said that she would
happily watch this film if it was an actual film
due for release. This showed us that our idea’s
were good.
• EBI: The ending was less drastic, as it seemed
unlikely that the characters family would burn
her body after accidentally killing her.

Idea Development Option – Our H

Previous Ideas. (the opening sequence)
• The character is at her desk typing and researching ghosts, hauntings and the history
behind where her house is situated.

• Suddenly, her television turns on by itself, she grabs her camera to document this
strange experience.

• After turning off the television, she walks back to her desk, and the another person’s
reflection is seen by the audience as they walk past her television.

• She hears another a noise coming from the drawer behind her, she scrambles to find
out what it is. She finds an old photograph in the drawer that clearly doesn’t belong to
her of a young girl wearing a similar necklace to the character.

• She hears a scream or thump coming from downstairs, she rushes to find the source of
it and ends up in the bathroom. She sees the tap dripping and as she turns it off, she
finds that the sink is full of blood.

H

What Went Well/ Even Better If
• WWW: Our opening sequence idea has good
pace, and the tension builds throughout the
two minutes.
• EBI: The ending didn’t let the rest of the two
minutes down as the rest of the opening
sequence built tension and then the final
moments made it all slump.

H

Idea Development Option
• We decided to keep the majority of our
idea the same, and so we only edited
the final part of our opening sequence
to make it more thrilling.

H
Idea Development Option – Our New
Ideas (the whole film)
• It starts with the opening sequence, where strange ghostly things are
happening to the main character.

• The main character slowly begins to find out information about who lived in
her home before her. She attempts to tell her family and friends but they
dismiss it.

• The main character has a series of close encounters with the ghost. Whilst
sleeping she dreams of its life in the home she now inhabits.

• The ghost possess the main character slowly. Thinking she is on drugs, her
family hosts an intervention for her. At this intervention, she is fully possessed.

• Her family and friends, whilst trying to restrain her, collectively kill the main
character and dispose of her body in a house fire. The cycle continues, with
the audience being shown a family moving into a newly built home where the
main characters house used to be.

H
Idea Development Option – Our New
Ideas (The opening sequence)
• The character is at her desk typing and researching ghosts, hauntings and the
history behind where her house is situated.

• Suddenly, her television turns on by itself, she grabs her camera to document this
strange experience and this is seen from her point of view.

• After turning off the television, she walks back to her desk, and the another
person’s reflection is seen by the audience as they walk past her television.

• She hears another a noise coming from the drawer behind her, she scrambles to
find out what it is. She finds an old photograph in the drawer that clearly doesn’t
belong to her of a young girl wearing a similar necklace to the character.

• She hears a thump coming from downstairs, she rushes to find the source of it,
running through the corridors in her house she tracks the noise down to the
bathroom and she listens outside the door. As she slowly reaches for the handle,
someone else’s hand slams on the glass door from the inside.

Idea Development Option H

• From draft one to this current draft, we
discussed a number of alternate endings for
our opening sequence. We decided that the
ending we have chosen: “She hears a thump coming from
downstairs, she rushes to find the source of it, running through the corridors in her house she tracks the
noise down to the bathroom and she listens outside the door. As she slowly reaches for the

” gives the best
handle, someone else’s hand slams on the glass door from the inside.

climax out of all of our discussed options.

Alternate ending

Long Shot, Slow motions zoom Close up shot, Ariel Close up of website research

2 Keyboard 3
1

Camera swished around
The room fast
4 Whispers are heard 5 Mid-shot view of character 6

Ariel shot of room Extreme close up of
Camera screen

7 8 Close up of camera in hand 9

Close up of TV

10 Long shot 11 12 Mid shot

Close up shot Close up shot of side of the
Long shot face

13 14 15

Close up of photo

Close up shot of
16 camera in hand 17 Ariel shot 18

Close up of face to capture
emotions Over the shoulder shot Mid shot

19 20 21

Long shot of hall way Ariel shot drop to
Over the shoulder shot

22 23 24

Wide shot Then fast zoom
In to Extreme close up to hand

Close up shot
25 26

Slide shot
• The close up/Extreme close shots we use are
to highlight importance or clearly show
emotions
• Ariel shots used are to give a clear view of the
area so you can make connections to reactions
• Long shots are again the same as Ariel but
with long shots we show the audience what
the character doesn't see

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Enigma
• The way we want to create enigma is through the
combination of sound and pace. The actress is
never fully calm which also keeps the audience
on edge.
• The end of the opening sequence will leave the
audience wanting to know what happens next as
the ending is unexpected.
You cannot see what the baby sees.

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Enigma
• We’ve improved our creation of Enigma from
draft one, because we have made the ending
of our opening sequence more thrilling and
this helps to create more enigma as the
audience will want to carry on watching to
find out why the character is being haunted
and what will happen to her.

Target Audience! M

• Age: It is aimed at 15+, this is because the main character in the film is a teenager
and a younger generation can relate to this because it will appeal to them.

• Location: the fact that it is set in London will appeal to a great number of people
who actually live in London. This is because the audience will be able to relate to
the character and the film and therefore will be more affected by the film.
E.g. many people who live in London were terrified of using the London
Underground after watching the movie ‘Creep’ which is set in Charing Cross tube
station. This scared many people who used the station, which is the major aim of a
horror/thriller film.

• Lifestyle: The movie itself is quite slow pace this doesn’t take away from it’s
excitement. Therefore our target audience would be people who lead an active life
and enjoy trills and sitting on the edge of their seat whilst watching a movie. The
mystery and enigma throughout our film will appeal to our target audience.

M
Why Our Target Audience Will Be Interested In
Our Film!
• The Idea: Our target audience will be interested in our idea because it is thrilling and
exciting and creates mystery (the history behind the house and the ghost). This will
intrigue our audience, because they will want to find out more. The unexplained
paranormal events that take place will interest people who regularly watch thrillers

• Form: We want to use very creep and eerie music in some parts then fast pace violin
music to create excitement. This will interest our audience because the are aiming our
film at thrill seekers. We also want to use quick cutaways to create excitement and build
up tension for the audience. (running through the corridors). However will we also use
smooth camera movements to build up tension that will lead up to the climax at the
end.

• Conventions: We are targeting our film at an audience who regularly watch horrors and
thrillers with conventions such as terror, and we will intrigue people who enjoy being
frightened by films.
• We will include ghosts and spirits in order to attract an audience who are interested
in supernatural happenings and life after death. (Ghost girl). We want to satisfy their
interest in paranormal activities by including spirits and weird unexplained events such
as the TV switching on by itself.

Actor/Character Props/Costume N

Gledis Drew

The Others The Unborn
• This character meets stereotypes of a helpless young girl who is
haunted by a ghost
• Some movies in which this is displayed are listed above.

N

Character
• We have developed our character from draft 1 by
stretching Gledis’ acting ability. In this opening
sequence, she has to convey more emotions than
she would’ve in our first opening sequence. Her
hair and clothing will be neater to represent her
innocence and make her appear more vulnerable

• Other than this no other changes improvements
where made

Location
• We have one locations with this idea.
• The first, is a bedroom in which all of these
supernatural things happen to the character
in. There are no health and safety risks in this
location.

(Supernatural things)

Location
• This location is nearly always accessible as its my
room, however, the only problem we may face with
this location is when we can film as my mother works
from home and noise from filming could be an issue.

• We can get there from school by getting the 266 or
260 bus to Church Road and then a short walking
distance, where we’d have to cross four non-major
roads.

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Narrative
• We are using Linear Narrative for our opening
sequence as the structure of it is all in chronological
order and so the audience follow through with the
plot.

• This has not changed from draft one, because we are
using the same narrative.

Q

Tvzetan Todorov: Narrative Structure

Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco- Equilibrium: it is a narrative that
Bulgarian philosopher. He lived in starts with a state of harmony,
France since 1963 with his wife and example a group of people enjoying
two children. their live.

Disequilibrium: it is a world of
stability which involves disruption,
example when an evil event happens
to character in a movie.

New Equilibrium: it is when the evil
in a movie is removed and it restores
harmony.

Q

It contrast with
disequilibrium because it
has some disturbing
images in the middle the
movie

This describes equilibrium as
it has the character enjoying This links with new
himself because he thinks equilibrium as it shows
that everything is perfect. a peaceful atmosphere
between the characters

Q

Binary Opposition: This is a sophisticated but
important idea that will help you understand how
ideas and meanings are being shaped, created or
reinforced in a text. It is 'a theory of meaning' and
an idea that can be applied to all texts; it is
especially useful when analysing poetry where
meaning has been 'compressed' into a very few
words.

Q

This scene is clearly used to This particular scene shows the
illustrate fear and danger. A audience a basic understanding
close up shot of his face of the movie which links to the
explains what is happening in binary opposition
the scene without the
audience not even seeing the
next stage

Q

Characters and their purpose in Propp’s
theory:

•The villain (struggles against the hero)
•The donor (prepares the hero or gives the hero
some magical object)
•The (magical) helper (helps the hero in the quest)
•The princess (person the hero marries, often
sought for during the narrative)
•Her father
•The dispatcher (character who makes the lack
known and sends the hero off)
•The hero or victim/seeker hero, reacts to the
donor, weds the princess

Q

Film Theory.
• We aren’t using Propp’s or Strauss’ film theory as neither fit
into what we want our opening sequence to be.

• We have no hero’s in our idea and so Propp’s film theory is
ineffective for us, and we are not creating ideas with our
opening sequence, and so Binary Opposition is also ineffective
for us.

Q

Film Theory.
• We’re applying Todorov’s film theory, as at the beginning of
our film idea, the character’s life is in a state of harmony.
(Equilibrium)
• As our idea continues, the character finds more and more out
about the ghost as it slowly possesses her. (Disequilibrium)
• Finally, the death of the character brings final peace and
harmony, or so the audience think until a new family move
into the same house. (New Equilibrium)

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Film Distribution
• Film distributors we would like to use are...
• Lions Gate Entertainment
• Momentum Pictures
• Film 4

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Lions Gate Entertainment
Why Lions Gate?...

• They distribute Thrillers We are Making a Thriller

• They are in collaboration This could work for us as our
with Film4 Sequence would have the backing
Of two companies
• The have distributed
successful films

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Film4
Why Film4?...
• They do a lot of
independent films
distribution
• They are a British This could cause a problem as
To other country distribution
distribution company
• You don’t have to have a big
budget

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Momentum Pictures

Why Momentum?...
• Its also a British distribution Which means it has the same
Advantages and disadvantages
company As Film4 would have.
• They have distributed films
Insidious, The Crazies, Hobo with
such as .... A shotgun

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Columbia Pictures
• It’s an American film production and distribution
company.
• Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia
TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures
Entertainment.
• Columbia's major contract stars were Jean Arthur and
Cary Grant (who was shared with RKO Pictures).
• It is one of the leading film companies in the world, a
member of the so-called Big Six.
• It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight
major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.

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FILMS AND BUDGETS
Anaconda The plot centre's on a Budget:$45,000,000
film crew for National (estimated)
Geographic's who are Opening
kidnapped by a Weekend:$16,620,88
hunter who is going 7 (USA) (13 April
after the world's 1997) (2456 Screens)
largest anaconda, Gross:$136,885,767
which is discovered in (Worldwide) .
the remote jungle.

Fright Night Fright Night is an Budget:$9,000,000
American vampire (estimated)
comedy horror film Opening
starring William Weekend:$6,118,543
Ragsdale, Chris (USA) (4 August 1985)
Sarandon, Stephen (1542 Screens)
Geoffreys and Roddy Gross:$24,922,237
McDowall that was (USA) (22 September
released in 1985. 1985)

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THE REASONS WHY I CHOSE COLUMBIA
PICTURES

• I chose this because they make lots of horror films that relate
to our genre.
• We aim a big hit for our genre so we can relate it to the
budget of Columbia pictures.
• It is an inspiration to film distributing and production.
• They have Co-production companies who help and support
them in exhibition and going into cinemas.

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Titles And Credits
• Titles and credits from real films:
• The Ring

• Se7en

• Rosemary's Baby

• Stephen King's "IT"

• Frankenstein (1931)

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Titles And Credits of ‘The Ring’

• The font appears hand written 
A handwritten style font would emphasise the
‘Mental illness’ aspect of our film as the text
would appear messy and scattered, as if written by
someone in panic or distress, (mentally unstable)

• The ‘O’s in the text match the ring of the well in the film


This emphasises the theme of the film, which has inspired us to use a font style which gives
clues to the audience as to what our film will be about without giving too much away.

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Titles And Credits of ‘Se7ev’
• Similarly to ‘The Ring’, ‘Se7en’ also has handwritten style fonts that
are often spaced out or slanted.

• The most inspiring thing about ‘Se7en’ is the animation of the
text.

• The quick bright flashes of the text create excitement for the
audience and keep them on the edge of their seat which is essential
for thriller films and has inspired us to display our text in a similar
way.

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Titles And Credits of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’

• The font style and colour are somewhat unusual as it does not link with
anything in the movie.
• However the fact that its so uncommon for a Horror/Thriller, makes it
unique and unpredictable.
• Baby pink colour, however
symbolises the innocence of
Rosemary’s character.
•Similarly, our main
character also possesses a
sense of innocence.

• This has inspired us to use a font not normally associated with Thrillers
to make it as unpredictable as possible.

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Titles And Credits of Stephen King’s ‘IT’

The title of the film is the The bright red symbolises
only text in this colour blood and gore therefore
(bright red) and font style. attracting the target
audience as it is common
in Horror/Thrillers.

This makes the title stand
out from the rest of the text The small cuts and slits within
highlighting the significance the letters emphasis the violence
of the ‘IT’ character to in the movie as they represent
intrigue the audience. stabs and scratches.

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Titles And Credits of ‘Frankenstein’ (1931)

• The inconsistency of the text style could be used to disorientate the
audience and perhaps panic them and keep them on the edge of their
seat.

•Also used for once sentence.
•Each word is a different font.

• The different fonts represent the
•Each piece of text is written
way that ‘Frankenstein’ was made
in a different font, confusing
up of different parts just like the
the audience yet still intriguing
text.
them.

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The colour of Our Text
• At fist we considered using a deep red font colour as it is usually
associated with Horrors/Thrillers.  ‘What Lies Within’

• However once we changed our opening sequence from a Horror to a
Thriller we decided that a colour associated with blood and gore would
not be appropriate plus too common and predictable.

• We then took inspiration from ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ which uses a baby
pink to signify her characters innocence. 

• In a similar way we decided that white would be the best option for us
as it resembles something pure.  ‘What Lies Within’

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The Font of Our Text
• After exploring different fonts from real films and opening credits we
narrowed our favourites down to:

• Block Capitals e.g. ARIAL BLACK
This could represent a sense of seriousness about the film. The houses being built
where a Mental Institution once was. The fire that was used to cover a
murder.
• Handwritten style Font e.g. Bradley Hand ITC
We would use this to resemble the mental state of the characters by making the
writing as unstructured and disorientated as possible.

• Old Fashioned Font e.g. Brush Script MT
This could emphasises the time period of when the Mental Hospital was running.
It gives the audience an insight to the film.

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Our final Font style and colour

• We finally narrowed it down to the font we felt was most appropriate for our
opening sequence and genre.
• We wanted to chose something that gave little clues about the film but not too
much and wasn’t too predictable.
• We decided to go with a handwritten style font as we hoped this would
emphasise the ‘Mental illness’ aspect of our film as the text would appear messy and
scattered, as if written by someone in panic or distress, (mentally unstable).
• Inspired by ‘The Ring’ and ‘Se7en’

• We were also inspired by ‘Se7en’ to make the text flash onto the screen and fade
away.

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Copyright Free Music Sites
• http://freeplaymusic.com/
• http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/
• http://www.royaltyfreemusic.co.uk/

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Copyright free music and sounds for
our genre

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Music That Inspires Us
• Non-diegetic music that inspires us is the
background music in Jaws. Its full of suspense
and its quite terrifying which adds to the thrill
of the film.
• We also want to have iconic non-diegetic
music that our audience will remember.

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Music That Inspires Us
• We like distinctive sounds like the sound of
typing, creaking and eerie diegetic sounds in
films. Also, slow footsteps with emphasis on
each step as this also builds the tension.
• This makes it more realistic as it scares people
more and they can relate to it.

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Our Music
• We would use these non-diegetic sounds to
build excitement and tension as our character
is running through the hallway.
• We would use diegetic sounds as she is
working at her desk and walking to try and
find the noises within her room.

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BBFC and Rating
• BBFC stands for British Board of Film
Classification.
• It provides guidelines as to what is
appropriate for viewers of a certain age.

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BBFC and Rating
• There are 6 different BBFC ratings.
Uc gives guidelines for a child being able to watch a
film by themselves (from the age of 4)
U stands for universal, enabling everyone to watch
the film.
PG stands for Parental Guidance. So the film is
suitable for children as long as their parents are
watching with them.
12A requires the viewers to be aged 12 but have
adult supervision whilst watching the film.
12 requires the viewer to be aged 12 and over.
R18 is a legally restricted classification for explicit
works of consenting sex or fetish material.

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BBFC and Rating
Our film fits into the 15 classification.
This is because there is a strong threat in our
film and sadistic behaviour is shown when the
ghost harms the character in her sleep just to
convey her message.

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