The opening scene of Prom Night uses features in the film which we will be using in ours. The girly night in then being ruined by horror is one feature in which we will be using to make a horror effect.
Where the opening scene is set is what we will be using in our film. Having a laugh at home and generally being vulnerable girls which then builds up the tension that this film could somehow be turned into a nightmare for the teenage girls.
The age of the teenage girls set in this film will be similar to our film aged around seventeen.
The stereotyping that the 'bad things always happen to the quiet ones, or girls who never expect it' is what is happening throughout this film. The girls would never expect something like this to happen to them and that will be the same in our film.
While our film is being set at home having a night in with friends, it never crosses the girls minds that they something out of the ordinary might be about to happen.
The shots in the film help to show the vulnerability of the girls with the close up shots when something is about to happen and the establishing shot to show that something out of the ordinary is about to happen. In our film the establishing shot showing the house shows that something isn't quite right. The over the shoulder shot over the girls shoulder while she's opening the door will then be showing what is outside and then a shot from the murders point of view will be glancing right back at the girl to build up the tension by showing how close he really is and why is he picking on these venerable girls?
There will be a lot of shot reverse shot, mid shots and high angle shots as the girls will be talking and just generally having a laugh while the high angle shots will bring tension to the film.
The sounds from the film will be fairly similar because as the girls are scarded there's a lot of screaming and non-diagetic sounds such as the murders breathing over the girls voices etc. Also non-diagetic sounds such as music and the television while diagetic sounds such as talking.
sound bridges will also be used in our film to create and build tension throught.
Our group has decided to do some research and planning on horror films. We have decided to do research on horror because it is interesting and would be good to target at our chosen audience.
Tonight one of my group members, Katie Coombs, will be taking images of the settings of where our film is going to be taking place and we will then be uploading them onto our blogs.
Katie will be taking pictures at night when its dark outside to show the pictures to be more realistic.
The pictures will be taken of the alley way where we will see the killer walking towards the house, a picture of the street which will lead tension to the audience to show the killer getting nearer to the house, a picture outside the house to show where the film will be taking place and lastly the living room where the main two girl characters will be placed.
My group and I have had a big think about the type of film we are wanting to do. Our first option was to do an opening of the first two minutes of a skins type film but we have decided to change it and do an opening two minutes of a horror. We think that doing a horror would be easier and more enjoyable as we would be able to find better props, actors etc for it and lastly the setting will be alot easier to film, than it would be to do a skins type opening.
Our group and I have been thinking about doing a Skins film for our final filming. We have been thinking of choosing this as we have targeted our audience at teenagers, which the programme itself is targeted at. We thought that it would be a good idea to do this as well as it would be enjoyable to do.
Over October half-term my group and I have decided to meet up over a few of the days to watch and take detailed notes on the opening of films from our chosen genre (horror). We have decided to go round to Kates house as that is where our film is going to be taking place. It is the perfect location for the setting of our film and we can start to think about how we may want to set out our film because of the way the layout of Kates house is and the access to alley ways, woods and the motorway which will be useful for a horror film to make it look more realistic .
