Brainstorming Ideas

By Sarah Divilly

Who are you working with?Advantage • I am going to work with Amy and Weronkia. The

reasons why I am going to do my media coursework with them because they are my friends, they are in my media class as well as they did GCSE media so they are experienced in filming and editing.

Disadvantage

We might have problems working together, because we could get distracted as well as lose focus on the main task. However we will overcome these problems, by giving equal tasks to each other as well as managing our time.

Ideas of our opening sequence

Horror – Through our research we discovered a great slides show (http://www.slideshare.net/marine18/horror-genre-conventions) From this we learnt about the conventions of a horror film would be a dark, isolated, gloomy settings which would have an impact on the audience.

Our ideas

Characters

Plot

Settings

Sound

Techniques

• Urban environments• Dark, gloomy, lonely settings • Locations:- graveyard, train station,

abandoned house and church.

• High and low angles- To connote fear

• POV (Point Of View) shot this allows you to look through the eyes of the character

• Behind shoulder shot

Little girl dies because she drowns, mum blames herself of the accident- grieves eventually drives the mum insane and she kills herself.

A 13 year old girl called Hope. • Brown Hair, hazel

eyes • Floral white dress, no

shoes

• Diegetic and non- diegetic sound

• Dramatic, tension building sound.

Media Institutions Hammer Films is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers, film noir and comedies – and in later years, television series. During its most successful years, Hammer dominated the horror film market, enjoying worldwide distribution and considerable financial success. This success was due, in part, to distribution partnerships with major United States studios, such as Warner Bros.

Previous films: Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Sinister, The Purge, Dark SkiesProjects in development: Curve, Ouija, Sprawl, Paranormal Activity 5, The Purge 2, Horror CampSSN Insight: Pretty much the current heavyweight champion of the genre, company topper Jason Blum has his formula down to a science. Find an interesting take on an idea, put together a solid cast, never spend more than $5 million on a budget, make hundred of millions of dollars. It’s a sort of poetry, really, though to be fair, no one could have predicted just how enormous Paranormal Activity was going to be, or that it would spawn four sequels and a pair of spin-offs. Even so, sometimes success is a combination of being good and being lucky, and Blumhouse clearly is both.

Production Names

Production Names Ideas

In Time Productions • This project is

done over a long period of time and IN TIME will be completed.

• Secondly, the mother’s grieving will past IN TIME.

Worldwide• As grieve

happens to every once in their lives

• Our moving opening, can affect people WorldWide and have a long lasting impact on them.

ASW productions• We would call it SAW productions as this is

our initials (Sarah, Amy and Weronika) • Relating this to our opening , the Mother

SAW her daughter drown and couldn’t do anything about it.

Slogans From the website ‘http://www.taglineguru.com/moviesurvey.html’ I accessed, taglines/ slogans from all different films genres of films and are marked by this criteria:Suitability: How well does the tagline capture the central theme, appeal, or essence of the film?Creativity: Is the tagline clever, playful, humorous, ironic, etc. – expressing its message in a fun and creative way?Originality: Is the tagline surprising, disarming, or uncommon – revealing a unique or unusual attitude or point of view? Memorability: Does the tagline demonstrate an ability to influence popular culture and language?

No mercy. No shame. No sequel- Scary Movie (2000)

The tagline reads "No mercy. No shame. No sequel.", the last reference being an ironic nod towards the tendency of popular horror movies becoming cash cow franchises. The film was originally titled "Last Summer I Screamed Because Halloween Fell on Friday the 13th". Scary Movie was followed by four more sequels Scary Movie 2 (2001), Scary Movie 3 (2003), Scary Movie 4 (2006) and Scary Movie 5 (2013).[1] Its title serves as a homage to the production title of Scream, which was also released through Dimension Films.

Slogan Ideas

‘The last breathe you took, was my last memory’

‘When will your last breathe be?’

‘Loneliness thrives off insanity’ ‘ What would you do?’ Yet again, we decided to use another rhetorical question, to directly ask the audience as well as make them think what they would do if they was in the mother’ s shoes.

However, this slogan relates to the film because the mother losing her little girl, in such a tragic death in her own home; the mother’s life becomes so unbearable to not wake up everyday to her daughter, which drives her insane which eventually she kills herself.

This slogan suggests that when the Hope died, that was the last memory that the Michelle had of her daughter as the mother forgot everything but her daughter's death, which she feels responsible for and grieve controls her life.

We like the use for this rhetorical question, as we want the audience to feel as if we are asking them, when will they know they are doing to die- they don’t. This slogan, relates to the film as Michelle did not know that was going to be her daughter’s last breathe.

Film Titles

Film Titles

Anticipation High Hopes

The desire of Hope

Hope’s Anticipation

The Lost and Forgotten

Lost

Final DismissalChild

The Nightmare

Through group discussion, we created this brain storm. As a group we decided that our film, should be called ‘High Hopes’ as it links back to the story as well as that the parents have high Hopes, to find who murdered their 13 year old daughter.