Mest 2

Guys i was researching about cyber bullying and came across this bbc article about bullying. We can use the information form this to present what type of bullying occurs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4805760.stm

By Shaurav

The following can give us ideas about what type of chase sequences we can have in our production. all of the scenes are of girls running away because stereotypically its always the girl that is scared and gets chased by the villain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEYaLuKrtHU

Enjoy =)

By Shaurav

The statistics for the world population that use the internet is 360, 985, 492.

2/5 of the population are kids and teenagers from the age of 18 and under

42% of the kids have been bullied while being online and 1 in 4 have involved in online bullying more then once

58% have not informed anyone about these issues as they might be scared.

300 children from the age of 8-16 commit suicide each year due to being bullied.


By Shaurav

I was going through some instrumentals i have on my hard drive and found some that could be used in our trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHtl4gke-f0 - 34 seconds onwards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB7vIXaVjJw - slowed down.



VIVEK.

http://www.microfilmmaker.com/tipstrick/Issue14/Edit_Trl.html#Trailer

CONTINUE ON TO THE NEXT PAGES, AT THE BOTTOM IT LINKS YOU TO THE NEXT PAGE :)


SONY VEGAS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3xs3HNT3TY

VIVEK.

the scene starts wid an over the shoulder shot of Jamal is at the computer, with a baseball bat next to him for protection, he gets a web cam invitation and says "I aint scared of this" so he accepts the invite. he isnt nervous or scared that something mite happen he is just kool. Natalie picks up the baseball bat and swings it to his head!

1. script
   
2. storyboard
   
3. analyse trailers
   
4. lottery
   
5. settings
   
6. questionaire
   
7. casting

Vivek.

The History of Horror

Horror movies are films which bring out the emotions of fear, panic and terror from the viewing audience. Plots of horror films regularly include the ideas of death, supernatural beings and mental illness. The Majority of Horror films also include a main villain.

Early horror movies were mostly based on classic literature of the Gothic/Horror genre, these include: Dracula, Frankenstein and The Phantom of the Opera. The first ever depictions of supernatural events appeared in silent short films by the French film maker Georges Méliès (famous for his ground breaking use of special effects)

In the early 20^th century more developments took place for the horror genre for example, the first monster was introduced in a full-length horror film ‘Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame’ based on the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo. Many of the first horror films were made by German film makers these were called ‘Expressionist films’ which would later influence Hollywood films.

American Film makers began to make horror films more popular with successful gothic feature films such as Dracula and James Whale’s Invisible Man. These films we’re created to thrill but also included serious elements.

With advances in technology taking place during the 1950s, horror films moved away from the Gothic trend and started to fall into three sub-genres: the horror of personality, the horror of Armageddon and the horror of the demonic. From the 1950s to the 1960s films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’(1963) which depicted nature gone mad began to emerge. Ghosts and Monsters still remained popular, these films expressed horror of the demonic.

From the 1970s occultist films began to surface (occult basically means knowledge of the unknown, involving the characteristics of magic witchcraft or supernatural occurrence). An example of a film which follows this genre is ‘The Exorcist’ (1973) by William Friedkin in which the devil is represented as supernatural evil often by impregnating women and possessing children. ‘Evil Children’ and Reincarnation then became popular subjects which were then featured in films such as ‘The Omen’ (1976) were an man realises his five year old adopted son is the Antichrist. Satan then became the villain in many horror films there after.

The 1990s saw the popularity that horror films had decrease. This was due to the non-stop slasher films from the 1980s and the younger audiences has grown up. Horror had to find a new way to recapture its reputation. This saw the introduction of ironic and sometimes parodic films such as Wes Cravens ‘Scream’ (1996) were teenagers were aware of the history and conventions of horror. Other films such as I know what you did last summer and Urban legend helped to regain the popularity of slasher films.

The 21^st saw the return of the Zombie theme in Horror movies films such as: Resident evil (2000) [based on the game after which 3 sequels followed], the British film ‘28 Days Later’, re-make of Dawn of the dead then made into a comedy ‘Shaun of the dead’. Re-makes became common in the 2000s such as 2003s ‘Texas chainsaw massacre’ and ‘Halloween’.

The reason why I chose to analyze this trailer is because the film coincides with our theme of technology.
The trailer opens with a statistic stating that, “everyday 2 billion cell phones ring”, this proves information for the audience. The way the text comes up on the screen is like it is being typed in on a phone, the phone dialing sound effect make it more appealing to the audience. The trailer uses sound bridges; a girl narrates, in-between two people talking and then shot changes to the girl who is narrating. Through out the whole trailer the theme tune is playing this constantly reminds the audience that the film is primarily based around technology. It ends with a montage of shots with fast pace music. We could use of these key idea’s in our trailer because it relates to our audience and genre!

RAHEAM

Blaise King, 17 – he is the main protagonist of the film, he is clever, brave curious. He has an open mind and believes that anything can happen. He is also one of the few people believe that there’s more to find out.

Jamal Thomas, 17 – he is the best friend of Blaise, he is cocky, rude and over confident. He believes that there are no such things as ghosts.

Samantha Reed, 17 – she is the girlfriend of Blaise, she is confused and worried. She doesn’t really think for herself and does whatever Blaise is doing.

Natalie Johnson, 16 – she is the villain of the film she kills her victims and leaves her trademark she is and all powerful spirit living in the internet.

Dexter Wallis, 26– he is the Donor of our film he is a computer genius and gives Blaise essential information on how to stop Natalie.

PI Perry 36 – he is a private investigator who wants to find out more. He is arrogant, paranoid and violent.

Hillary Scott 34 – she is a reporter for the BBC and also and investigative journalist who will do anything for a huge story, she is rude and forceful.

Mr and Mrs King 45, 40 – parents of Blaise and Chloe.

Chloe ,19 – Victim of Natalie’s wrath. She was one of the many that have been killed even though having nothing to do with Natalie’s suicide.

Ms Johnson, 38 – Natalie’s mother, she is a single parent and has become bitter since Natalie’s tragic death. See too commits Suicide Later.

BY JOEL

Basic plot.
In 2004 Natalie Johnson was Bullied through the internet on Various Social-networking sites and by email this eventually drove her to her death as she was found hanged in her bedroom on March 4th that year. The day that she died an email was sent out to very individual that had tormented her. Over past years Natalie's class mates have mysteriously passed away without any health or harm affected to them. Natalie now had her revenge, however her spirit lives on in cyber-space and killings have not stopped. They are still happening now in 2010. Its up to one person to stop her and save the lives of thousands of teenagers.

Vivek

i've been looking at the timeline list and theres alot of work we need to do.

• short outline (treatment), summary of work conducted so far and research findings. (on blog)
  
• Complete Pre-Production Planning Handout

• 1,000 word rationale (intentions) linking to key concepts and theory.
  Research findings – magazine article research (2 different publications)
  
• Analysis of 2 trailers for low-budget British independent film with an analysis of codes and conventions and how they attract an audience through symbolic, narrative and technical codes.
  
• BLOG - Production Log
  

Vivek.

In our film we aimed to highlight the fact that we live in an age where the internet dominates the media. The increasing popularity of social networking sites such as facebook has meant bulling has become easier. The internet has also become increasingly more dangerous, chat sites play a big part in this with fake accounts and numerous paedophiles, murderer still online. Hopefully the film will shock people into being safer with the internet and make them more aware of internet bullying.

BY JOEL

Diegetic sound.

Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film:

voices of characters
sounds made by objects in the story
music represented as coming from instruments in the story space (source music)
Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from source within the film's world
Digetic sound can be either on screen or off screen depending on whatever its source is within the frame or outside the frame.

Another term for diegetic sound is actual sound


Non-diegetic sound

Sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action:

narrator's commentary
sound effects which is added for the dramatic effect
mood music
Non-diegetic sound is represented as coming from the a source outside story space.
The distinction between diegetic or non-diegetic sound depends on our understanding of the conventions of film viewing and listening. We know of that certain sounds are represented as coming from the story world, while others are represented as coming from outside the space of the story events. A play with diegetic and non-diegetic conventions can be used to create ambiguity (horror), or to surprise the audience (comedy).

A Binary opposition is a pair of opposites (for example light vs dark) that feature in a film.


-The Binary Opposition is between the forces of good and evil: this is the Hero and Victims Vs The Villain.

Usually in horror films a woman is the main protagonist, for example in the film ‘final destination’ Ali Carter portrays the main protagonist, the reason why film producers chose to use a woman for the hero is because they are more likely to submit to the villain than a man is. We are challenging this stereotype and are using a male character for our hero.

We have chosen to challenge the most obvious stereotype of this genre… the villain of our film is a woman, stereotypically a man has always portrayed the villain (a few examples are Mike Myers from Halloween and Jason from Friday the 13^th). It is very rare to find a female villain because women are always portrayed as sweet and innocent, plus no one would expect them to be the killer the reversal in the gender of the villain will create an enormous twist in our narrative of the audience.

By Raheam

Every good Thriller film has a twist which the audience simply doesn’t expect; Law Abiding Citizen is a 2009 crime thriller in which Gerard Butler kills people from inside solitary in prison, through out the narrative the audience are led to believe that he has an accomplice on the outside but at the end it is revealed that he actually was able to leave his solitary cell.

This is an example of a perfectly executed twist, however if a twist is not properly registered with the audience the film can be a total flop. The main challenge concerned with integrating a twist into our plot is that if it is too predictable it will ruin our plot.

A twist is defined as an unexpected change in the direction of the plot which intrigues the audience, for us to do this properly we are going to use a ‘red herring’ which basically means that we are going to divert and misdirect the audience from a significant part in our narrative.

By Raheam

• Weapons
• Darkness
• Storms
• Chase sequences
• Gore
• Violence
• Screams
• Ghosts
• Death
• Killing
• Villain
• Victims
• Haunted houses and isolated settings
• Monsters
• Evil

Vivek.

Low Budget Hits.

1999's The Blair Witch Project - $22,000
1975 Sholay - $400,000
2008 Slumdog millionaire - $15,000,000
2007 Paranormal Activity - $15,000

Independent Film Companies.

Independent films are created outside of major film studios. they are also called Art house films. They produce films normally as a one of on a small budget.Some UK Small Budget companies are:

• Coffee Films
• Norfilms
• Red Film

As our Genre revloves around a horror background, here are a few examples of low budget horror films:

• Saw $1.2 Million
• Saw II $4 Million
• Hostel $4.5 Million

Vivek.