Film Synopsis

- Firstly we see the victim sprinting down the road that leads to a graveyard. The audience is left puzzled as they do not know who is chasing him or what he’s running from yet. He is breathing heavily and keeps looking backwards to see what is behind him. Because he is not looking where he is going he trips over and falls to the ground. He gets to his feet and the silhouette of the killer dashes across the camera, at this point the audience has the idea that he is being chased and running from someone in particular, it’s also shows that this antagonist is superior to the victim because he can outwit him quickly. The victim utters “I think I lost him” there’s dramatic irony at this point because we know that he hasn’t got away and is still vulnerable. Then the screen goes black and we hear the sounds of bones cracking. After this, we see the murderer dragging the corpse away from the murder scene and dumping him behind a hut. Next, we jump to a red room with pictures of other people on the walls, the murderer laughs and crosses of his latest victim.

Suggested Location

 This would be a good location for a horror film to be partly set as its connotations are typical horror film. It is a secluded area with trees, and no seemingly way out. It being an Alleyway also has connotations of horror as a 'Dark Alleywa' is a common phrase for somewhere that you do not want to be or go, as it will certainly be dangerous.


  This would also be a good location for a horror film as it seem quite enclosed and has connotations of horror. The connotations of a Graveyard, are typical horror, the links they have to horror are things such as 'walking dead' etc.

Shots

Different Camera Shots use in Preliminary


Point Of View Shot

A point of view shot is a short film scene that shows what a character is looking at. It is usually established by being positioned between a shot of a character looking at something, and a shot showing the character's reaction. The technique of POV is one of the foundations of film editing.

A POV shot need not be the strict point-of-view of an actual single character in a film. Sometimes the point-of-view shot is taken over the shoulder of the character (third person), who remains visible on the screen. Sometimes a POV shot is "shared" ("dual" or "triple"), i.e. it represents the joint POV of two (or more) characters.

This is an example and shows well a way of using a Point Of View shot -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp5mLbSpKT8






 

180 Degree Shot

Participants in a scene should have the same left - right relationship with each other, with filming only taking place within the 180 degree angle in which this is maintained in a conversation. This allows the audience to have  a greater sense of location in the scene in terms of what may e off screen in some shots.

Match On Action

Match On Action is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot. This creates a sense of continuity - The action carrying through creates a "visual bridge" which draws attention away from slight cutting or continuity issues. 

Target audience

Target Audience

The target audience for a lot of horror, or films linking close to the horror genre, are generally aimed towards people of around 15+ and sometimes 18+. The main people that watch horror films are 18+, the main reason for this is the most popular and critically acclaimed films, are rated by the BBFC as at least 15+, but more often 18+.

Our Target Audience

Our target audience is 18+ as we feel this widens the amount of people who will want to see the film. The main age is 15-35 as this is the age that goes to see films the most and has the money to also. We feel that choosing this age range is a good target audience as this is the most common age of people who see horror films, the gender does not matter as horror films are viewed by both genders, meaning there is no gap in the target audience there.

Promoting Our Film

TV
- Adverts
- Clips

Social Networking
- Facebook
- Twitter
- MySpace
- YouTube

The advantage of using social neteworking sites is that you can make your film wider known and appeal to all people through advertisement. It is shown that awareness of Facebook around the worl is near to 100percent, and more that 1Billion people use social networking sites, and more than 400million people a day use Facebook. 50percent of people use social networking site users are connected to brands. These figures show that social networking would be key to selling and distributing our film as it would help to present the film to a huge range of audience, with the film supposedly being shared around groups of people.

Plan

Opening - 
- Fast paced
- Open with a chase scene - fast, exciting, interests audience, makes them want to watch on more.

Sound -

- Natural
- Heart-beat
- Heavy Breathing
- Sudden Sounds
- No music

Story - 

- Chase Scene --> Victim falls --> Looks up, silence --> Black Screen  --> See the victims dead on floor --> watch him be dragged into an alley --> goes straight into dark room with pictures of faces --> Black and White flashback of villain being bullied at school --> back to normal --> see the faces of the people who were bullying him in flashback with some of them crossed out and some of them not --> see the victim just killed get crossed out

Camera Shots

- Point-Of-View shot from the Antagonist
- Close-up of legs being dragged
- 360 shot of the victim when he is looking around for the antagonist

Scene Settings

- Graveyard
- Alleyway
- Dark Room
- House