Friday 18 December 2009

Key things in the horror

At the opening, there will have the excited murder shot to attract audience's eyes. After that, when the girl wake up ,she find that just was a dream. It seems that it was over. But, however, when she go out, she saw the one who want to kill her that in her dream was outside her home.And, she scream.

It was mystery that the boy in the dream,he was appear in the real world. It attracts the audiences want to know what happen.Then , it seems the hooro film.

Also, up to here , girl sees the boy.I will stop for a moment and shows out the opening credit of the film. During this period of time, audiences may in hurry want to know what will happen next.Therefore,it will attract the audiences to watch the following happen.

characters and locations

Dream comes true

- Main characters :

1#
A girl who is called Juliet . She is the main character in the story. In the opening , there have a shot that she is running along the street. The story will be around her daily life with Ronald . Until she found the secret that is about Ronald. Then , she will be killed by Ronald finally.

2#
A boys is called Ronald. He is the main character in the story. He is the new student who will be stay in Juliet’s home. He also is the boy that appear in Juliet’ s bad dream. He is a nice boy then they going to be friend quickly. However, at the ending of the film, he will kill Juliet. It is because she knows his secret.

-Main location

There will be street and home for the opening sequence.
It is because Juliet is running along the street and Ronald killed her when she fall down. Therefore, the opening sequence might be film on the street at night.
Also, the second location is in the bedroom. That was because Juliet wake up when she was having a bad dream. So, there will also have some shots at bedroom and home.
These all locations for my opening sequence.

Sunday 6 December 2009

main story outline

1# Dream comes true.

1) A boy follows the girl
2) Girl looks back
3) Sees the boy tracked her with the knife
4) She runs
5) She fall down
6) Boy killed her
7) Girl wakes up, just a bad dream
8) She goes out
9) Sees the boy who is in her dream is outside her home
10) Boy knocking the door
11) She is afraid and scream
12) Her mum asked her why and open the door for the boy
13) Her mum state that he is the new student who will be living with them
14) He looks very nice.
15) But the girl still scared with him
16) They are having a handshake
17) Go to school together
18) Later on, girl forgets her bad dream and being friend with the boy
19) When she goes out, no matter where she goes, boy will come together
20) They have a great friendship
21) However, one day the girl knows that the boy is doing some illegal
22) She wants to tell the truth to the police
23) They are quarreling.
24) Then the girl stand in her view strongly
25) Boy is afraid
26) So, he wants to kill the girl
27) Girl goes out from home
28) Boy comes out too.
*29) He is holding the knife
30) She runs along the street
31) She is shouting “help” and keep running
32) Suddenly, she falls down
33) Boy killed her
34) The screen becomes red and the girl’s screaming

*Shots are similar to the beginning.

4 ideas outline

1# Dream comes true.

In the opening, there have a girl is running and screaming. It is because there have a boy tracked her with a knife. He want to murder the girl. Suddenly, she fall down. And, the boy killed her. After that, the girl wake up and it just was a dream. When she go out, she saw the boy who was in her dream is knocking the door outside her home. She was afraid. And, her mother asked her why and open the door for the boy. The boy is the new student who will be live with them actually. At the beginning, the girl still fear of him based on the bad dream. But, later on they become a good friend. Then, one day the girl detected that the boy are doing something illegal things. She want to tell the police the truth. However, the boy killed her when she is on the way to the police station. That was what happened in the girl’s bad dream.


2# Mystery invitation

It is 30 October. Fiona and Helen are good friends. Fiona is sending the invitation letter to her classmates for the Halloween party. When she sent the last one to the classmates. Helen came. And, Fiona said that she will send the invitation to Helen later.
When Helen went back home, she received a invitation in her mail box, she thought that it was the invitation form Fiona. However, it was not ! Fiona’s invitation still on the floor. So, who else will give a invitation to Helen? And, what will happen when Helen go to the wrong party? It is the secret.


3# Time keep going back

One day, Christina go to school. When she arrived the school building, she already felt that something wrong. But she still keep going to her classroom which is in the second floor. When she climbed the stair to second floor, she opened the door. The view makes she shocked. It is because the view still is the ground floor. She tried and tried but she still cant go to second floor. Is it something unknown in the second floor or something else…


4# imprecate tattoo

Here have a legend that who have a rose tattoo on the left arm, that will become dead with no reason. One day, Jane go to the tattoo shop. She found that the rose sign is beautiful. Then, she want to have it on her LEFT ARM. But, the shop manager had told her that about the legend. However, Jane still want to have it on her left arm.
When she having the rose tattoo, the unlucky things follow to happen…
Finally, Jane want to wash it off but she cant. And, the tattoo becomes more and more wide on her arm. At the end, Jane dead…

Wednesday 2 December 2009

questionnair summary

I had asked 23 people. 10 of them are male and 13 of them are female. Their age is between 16 to above 21. And, 9 o them are British and another 9 of them are Chinese. The last 5 people are Indian or other. 4of them are 16. 6of them are 17. 5of them are 18. 3of them are 19. 1of1them is 20.And 4 of1them are over 21. Therefore, most of the interviewees are teenagers.

Most of the interviewees like watching horror film. Only 4 of them dislike watching horror, and those 4 people all are Chinese. It is because they are scared of this.

In the result that people who like watching horror, they are usually feel excited about the film.
Then, half of them will have a deep memories of the story after watching the film. Based on, the cameras work. Most of them said that if the shots are fantastic or scary, they will remember it.
After that, most of the interviewees think that if the environment is quiet, they will feel scary. It is because silence will make people have more space in their mind to think about what will happen in this quiet environment. Also, screaming is another sound that make people feel scary, too. It is because screaming can be shared emotion. We scream when we are scary or saw something horrible and unbelievable. That why when the characters scream in the film, the audience will feel scary too.

The elements that make audiences interested to notice are characters and narrative. Besides, the music and sound effect also attract audiences to notice. Sound effect makes the sense becomes stronger. For example, the sound of the wind the sound odd roping blood,etc.
Moreover, the audience expect to see in the horror are blood and something that are scary, death, murder and mystery. But the Chinese interviewees expect to watch some surprise shot, such as there have something suddenly appeared.

To conclude, the favorite top 5 horror film are as follows.
1# SAW
2# THE RING
3# REC.
4# SCREAM
5# DEAD SILENCE

Western audience expect to see some scary things in the horror. They need the scared feel directly. For example, they want to see some murder, bloody and monster, etc.
However, for the eastern audience expect to have some surprise through the horror. The term of “surprise” is mean that they want to have some shocked shot. Like, there have something appear on the screen suddenly. Eastern horror film almost use the ghost to be the storyline. It is because ghosts give us a sense that was mystery. And, the ghost will appear and disappear mysteriously. Those mystery things are eastern audience want to see. It is because they want to think more through the film. And, showing is more scary than telling. That eastern horror will give much space to the audience to think more. When the audience are using their mind to think about the story, they will create a super scary ending for their own.

Moreover, out of those top 5 horror film, there have two are not produce from Hollywood. And, the DEAD SILENCE is also a US film. That had the same director with SAW. And, its main element of horror is screaming.