Question 4

For our horror film, our target audience would most likely be young teenagers both male and female aged between 16-18 for we believe that the content shown within our film is suited more to that age criteria.

Question 2

Representation is where we try to show the original conventions and stereotypes of any given subject included in our film. For us our killer (Matt) wears a mask to hide his face so that we don't know who the killer is and he has long hair as well. Because our film is a slasher, having a killer who wears a mask, carries a knife and has long hair are conventions of a slasher film that must be included. Having long hair may not be a convention of a slasher film but it helps for the image of the killer.

Our victim who we see as a young teenage girl (Izzy) with her baby crying is a normal convention but also a stereotype for horror films by having a woman as a victim. Including these in our film we are representing troubled teenage mother's and woman victims in our film. Stereotypically we show a teenage mother with her baby crying which is what we mostly think is typical of a young teenage mother but in some cases it's not like that. And our killer wearing a mask in a slasher film is just a convention which always must be included for a slasher film which is what we've done for ours.

We analyze videos for representation because we can then talk about how well representations of conventions of the sub-genre and stereotypes are presented in the film/video. For example with our film as said before, our victim is a young teenage mother with her baby crying. This is a strong stereotype of what we think a young teenage mother would be like. We would think that they would be in disarray and alone not knowing what to do. And our killer wears a mask and carries a knife around is a typical convention of a slasher film.

This clip is from Halloween (1978). In this clip we see the killer Michael Myers (the killer) murder Bob (the victim). The difference between this clip and the clip from Nightmare on Elm Street is the victims. In the Nightmare on Elm Street clip, the victim is a female whereas in this clip, the victim is male. However both victims are teenagers which is stereotypically the age of the victims in most slasher films if not all slasher films.

Question 2

This is a video from Nightmare on Elm Street showing the death of the character Kris. Kris (the victim) is a female character and Freddy (the killer) is a male character which is a traditional set up for a slasher film. Stereotypically Kris is presented as being powerless and terrified of Freddy whereas Freddy is presented as the more dominant character by teasing Kris slightly before killing her.

Film Outline

This is our film outline for our film.

Storyboard

This is our storyboard for our film.

question 2

Representation means how something is portrayed, this is important in films as the representation of characters helps us to understand the plot and one of the common things that we look for is stereotyping. Characters in films are often represented by using conventions. For example, the victim in a horror film will stereotypically be a young blonde female, this is a convention of a horror film.

1.In this clip from A nightmare on Elm street, the threat hear is a middle aged man and the victim is a teenage female. The young girl is being represented as the victim and the man is the threat, this is typical of a slasher film. The young female victim carries out well know stereotypes of teenage girls throughout her part in the film.

2.Me and Jake have decided that these actors would be good to use as the female looks like a typical teenage girl, and the will be portrayed as a teenage mother. In most of the slasher films that I have seen, only obvious stereotypes are used, we plan to use the least obvious stereotype of teenage pregnancy and being unable to cope on their own. Also following the conventions of slasher films, the female here is the victim and the threat is male. The male actor is quite tall which also is a convention of slasher films as it will make the threat seem more intimidating.

Reflective Evaluation-Richard -question 1

This is the logo from 'new line cinema'

This is the logo from our opening scene.

This is an image that establishes mise en scene of the cahracter, we chose to use the clown mask as in the story, the mother that deserts him plays with a clown toy to entertain the baby, when she leaves the baby in the caravan, she leaves him with the toy, so when he grows up miraculously, he is inspired by this toy to create a clown mask as a disguise and get revenge on his mother for leaving him to die.

We decided to use a knife as the weapon for our killer. This is because it is probably the most accessible weapon for someone with no/little money. Also the same reasoning for the costume of our killer and the mother, the mother is poor so she has scruffy homemade clothes, and the killer has cheap and scruffy clothes.

We chose to shoot the film in a caravan as the mother cannot afford to live in a house.

this is an image from the title sequence of the film Halloween. I chose this image as the darkness really emphasises the mysteriousness of the film, I think that our film opening should have something similar to this, although it is quite simple. The colours black and orange clearly represent halloween.

This is a screen grab from my title sequence.

This is a screen grab from my final film that establishes the sub-genre.

This is an image from the ghost film, 'The sixth sense'. This is a great image, it shows clearly how the rule of thirds can benefit the mise en scene, the young boy in the film is powerless, but the way this shot is composed gives him most of the power.

This is an image from the film halloween, it evokes fear as the viewer is positioned as the victim. Also the mise en scene here makes the threat seam very tall and overwhelming.

This is an image of mise en scene from the film 'V for vendetta'