Pitch

Group 5

Audience Research

From our survey we hope to gain some knowledge and advice about what the audience are interested in regarding horror filmsWe have used the sight Survey Monkey to produce our questionnaire and send it out using web 2.0 media and social networking; furthermore it meant we could get a variety of quantitative and qualitative results.

We had 21 responses

Audience Research

Our genre is physiological thriller/horror fitting perfectly with the audience’s preference.

Audience Research

Location was a hard choice for our group so we took into account the audience’s preference and chose a wooded location with a shed/shack.

Audience Research

Our victims will be a number of young female and male characters, which is what the audience voted for, but our main victim will be a young male due availability.

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Due to audience preference we will make out antagonist seem like an old man.

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Our genre will be a psychological horror due to audience preference.

Audience Research

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Due to a 100% choice in lighting we will have low key lighting in our title sequence.

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No clear difference is seen in our results for preference of cliff hangers.

Audience Research

Audience research shows that they like the use of children in horror films, we will not use children but we will use young teenage charters as victims in our title sequence

Audience Research

Due to input from audience preference we will have little dialogue in our tile sequence.

Secondary Research• Our group decided to go with the genre of horror, with a sub genre of

psychological thriller. • This is because from the film research of ;Texas Chainsaw Massacre

(Liebesman, 2006); The Shining (Kubrick, 1980); The Ring (Verbinski, 2002), Se7en (Fincher, 1995) we decided techniques from each could be replicated. As well as this as a group we decided we all enjoy horror and could use our a opinion to create a tense title sequence creating climaxes and thrills for the audience.

• During the discussion we decided that we would use a psychopathic killer to be the main villain of our feature. One maybe resembling the murderer from 'Se7en'. Therefore our antagonist will not be a crazed killer yet a disturbed man who kills who victims with strategy in mind and makes it look like a suicide. The character will be played by a young male, but will be made to look older.

• We have already decided the location of our title sequence, an abandoned shed in Hever surrounded by woods. We feel this will be perfect for the genre and would create verisimilitude in the title sequence as it links effectively to the theme.

• We have decided on the plot, and the establishing shots, they will include shots of the surrounding area of the location and the abandoned shed. The plot is a murderer who kills many young people in ways in which he can make it seem like suicide.

Mood Board

For our mood board we looked at films similar to our genre title opening. We then took still shots representing the common factors we believe are present in the genre of horror and psychological thriller.

Treatment• Beginning of title sequence involves establishing shots of

location. • Tilt up shot of murder victim, from his feet to his head, found

hanging from a tree integrated gradually throughout sequence.• Murderer’s face not seen throughout clip.• The murderer is not seen clearly, his hands and body will be

briefly seen throughout the clip creating enigma. • These shots will be mixed in with the tilt up of the murder victim. • The murderer will be seen writing a suicide note for the victim

like the many he has before. • The murderer’s shed will contain his potentially deadly work tools

sprawled across the table accompanied by pictures and newspaper cuttings of his previous victims.

• Throughout the sequence radio broadcast of police reports will be played to provide the audience with information of the current story line.

• Accompanying the radio reports will be pictures of past victims as well as old newspaper reports about the dead people that have been found.

• Final shot of radio being turned off.

Storyboard

Wilderness WoodsAfter our location reccie to wilderness woods we decided upon using a wooded area as our location for the tile sequence.

The eerie feel created by the woods was exactly the mood we wanted for the our title sequence. We did however want a small structure or building to feature in our film.

We then went on a location reccie to rook birch wood. We have permission from the land owner to film on the property. Pictures on the next page fit with our preferred location.

LocationRook Birch Wood How Green lane Heve  Kent

Props• Abandoned shed• Metal cage• Poster board• Table covered in

work tools• Table covered in

photos, bottles, pills, scissors, old pencils

• Chainsaw• Bandages• Dirty rags• Blood Stains

CharactersThe antagonist in most horrors/psychological thriller is male and usually middle age or older.

The protagonist in most horrors/psychological thriller is female, but many films use teenagers of both genders.

Our title sequence will have one antagonist who will be unidentified, but shots of the antagonist's hands and body will reveal a male figure.In the title sequence no living antagonist shall be present, but our murder victim will be a young teenager.

Costume

The clothing worn by the teenage murder victim will be bright and stereotypical costume for a teenager e.g. jeans, t-shirt.

The clothing worn by the antagonist will be dull unfashionable and maybe dirty.

Shot Ideas

This shot from Se7en (Fincher 1995) is a shot very similar to what our group would like to feature in our title sequence. The extreme close up of the antagonist’s hand does not reveal his identity but does give the audience the idea of his gender. A small characteristic of what is to come later in the film.

The character is also writing. We want to show our antagonist writing a suicide note so this shot is an idea which we would like to use.

The shot has a range of light levels allowing the shot of the hand writing to be very clear due to the light being good. But also the darker area allowing a title to be seen. Another idea which we want to take from this shot.

Shot IdeasAnother shot that we want to include in our title sequence is a tilt up shot of a murder victim hanging.

The shot will begin from their feet hanging from the ground then slowly tilt up towards their head.

This shot will have other shots cut into it so that the shot is slowly revealed throughout the title sequence.

Titleshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suold-07Zik&feature=player_embedded

• The title sequence of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (Liebesman 2006) is very similar in how we would like to present our titles.

• The colour of the titles is white which is what we want.

• Therefore it is situated on a dark background which is what we will do due to the dark lighting in out title sequence.

• The titles are situated according to the rule of thirds apart from the main title of the film which will be situated in the centre of the screen.

• Little animation is used creating a serious mood to the clip.

Font

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The fonts we have chosen are directly related to our title sequence. In our title sequence we have the antagonist writing a suicide note. We therefore would like to use handwritten type front as the titles.

Soundtrackhttp://youtu.be/Vnxar6WH3sk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2yRBMJNVvU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMhVDFtK7_Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogMk8u8v-Gw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Rh9c-tUlk

This soundtrack uses disjointed sound effects and organ like instruments to create an eerie atmosphere.This soundtrack uses whispering sounds layered upon one another with organ music setting a spooky mood.This soundtrack is a song you would hear in a teenage horror, it is sad and slow but does not create an atmosphere related to our genreThis soundtrack has taken a well know nursery rhyme and slowed it down and changed the music this has created a psychopathic mood.This soundtrack starts with a simple piano tune which is calm but keeps the audience on edge, the loud bass is added increasing the intensity of the atmosphere.

People Attached

Filmed by: Robert St.Pierre

Starring: Jacques Thornton “as the antagonist”Tom Hanham “as the murder victim”

Edited by:Robert St.PierreJacques ThorntonTom Hanham

DifficultiesThe shot of our victim being hung will be hard to film. We will need a solid tree branch or platform to hang our victim from without putting them in danger or at any risk. We can use a harness to hang them safely from the tree or platform and try disguise it so it is not visible by the audience. Alternatively we could film the victims feet hanging then when we move further up the body place them on the ground and continue the tilt shot with the ground and feet out of view.