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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.

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Questionnair

A)Personality
Gender: #Male #Female
Age: #16 # 17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #above21
Ethnicity: # British # Chinese # Indian #Other

B)Questions
1) Do you like watching horror film?
# Yes # No

2)What is your feeling about horror film?
# Excited #Scared # Bored # Funny # Other

3) After you watched the horror film, would you have a deep memories of it?
#No # Yes, Reason:___________________________

4)Which sound you will feel scary if it appear in the horror?
# Phone Ring # Scream # Sound of broken glass # Quiet #Other

5)What is the things will attract you to notice in the film? (Can choose more than one)
# characters # Narrative(story) # music/sound effect # make-up
# camerawork # lighting # other

6)What would you expert to see in the horror film?#___________________________________________________

7)Finally, what is your favourite horror film?
#____________________________________________________

Textual Analysis for Horror

Name of film: REC. (2007)

It is a Spanish horror film. It is about a television reporter, Ángela Vidal, and her cameraman, Pablo, who cover the night shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations for the fictional documentary television series While You Sleep. The firehouse receives a call from an apartment building about a woman who is trapped. When they arrive, the police break down the door, with Ángela and Pablo recording their actions. The woman becomes extraordinarily aggressive and bites one of the policemen.

A health inspector wearing a hazmat suit arrives and attempts to treat the injured, who become fiercely violent despite their critical injuries. The health inspector explains that the time the disease takes to cause sickness depends on blood type. The health inspector also reveals that, sometime during the previous day, a dog with the illness was taken to the veterinarian; the dog became violent and attacked and killed other pets at the clinic. The dog was euthanized, and was traced back to the apartment building. The inspector tells the distraught residents that this unknown but virulent disease is infecting people, causing them to turn into bloodthirsty savages. More and more people in the building become infected, and Ángela and Pablo are forced to fight them off.

At the end of the film, Pablo tries to escape, but trips and is viciously attacked by the girl, making Pablo drop the camera. Ángela picks it up and runs, only to trip and drop the camera as well. She searches for it but is unable to find it. The camera continues to record as the screams of the infected girl are heard on the tape recorder and Ángela is dragged into the darkness, screaming.

The text style in the opening of REC. is black background screen and white words.It is the most common style in the horror film. In the opening sequence, there have a relax mood that seems it is just a television programme and not a horror film. The story is go on natural and all the things are happened unexpectedly.

REC. looks like a recorded video and the method of filming is fresh. Its not like the common horror film. Even it had the common elements of the horror film, for example, screaming, breathing sound, bloodsucker, darkness environment, etc. But the filming method is difference to the normal one.

Moreovers, the shots of the film are real, it is because the camera was just hold by the cameraman Pablo’s hand. Whenever, they were running, the camera followed to shake by their movements.Also,the main location of the story is in the old building. And, the environment is always being dark. Dark environment makes audience cant see the shot clearly. And, when there had a suddenly screaming, it makes the audience really scary.

It is a really good horror film. After looking it, it still have a deep memories in audience’s mind. And ,at the end of the film, it hadn’t told us what is the ending of the story. Is Ángela died? What will the people do who are stay outside the old building? It has many questions that make the audiences to think about.

One minute video

Here is the storyboard for the one minute video.I had film it twice time. It is because at the first time I hadn’t do the rehearsal before I record it. Therefore, here had many wrong or bad shots contain in the video. Also, I didn’t do the good match on action.

So, I do it again during the Friday lesson. Luckily, this time all the shots are well done and the match on action is perfect. It is because when i was confused with some shots,my classmates will remind me or give me some advise.They also teach me that how can i do a good match on action.Therefore, I can finish my second tape successfully.
At the and,I am very thanks for my two helpful classmates, Lee and Tasha :)

Task 2:Research into Existing Products

Thriller

1#
Name of film: The Bourne Identity

The setting in the beginning of the story, this is with the mystery music and here is a bad weather. And, the people is all on the boat. Suddenly, they saw somebody is in the water .Then, they save himself. And, the man looks like died. When the old man was checking the wounds on the “died” man’s body, he discover something that shows out the bank account number. After that, the old man look back to the bed where the “died” man lay on. He is disappear! Suddenly, he jump out from the old man backward. It attracts the audience want to know what will go on.

2#
Name of the film: Infernal Affairs (2002)

It is a hong kong film that about the espionage. The triad society send one of the member into the police department to get more information. So they can prepare before the police having action. At the same time, the police department also send one of the member into the triad society to observe their activities. It is a mystery story to make audience interested in.

Task 2:Research into Existing Products

Romantic Comedies

1#
Name of film: Monkey Business (1931)

It is a black and white film. At the opening sequence, there had a happy music. And, here had a shot of a man wear a full-dress coat and a woman wear a beautiful dress. It seems that they were going out to have a party. Through the behavior of those characters , we know that they are married couple. And, the man had a useless mind that always forget the things what he need to do. So, his wife remind him all the time. And, the beginning of the film is doing the same action and repeating the action of the couple were going out. Finally, the wife give up to go out based on her husband’s behavior.

2#
Name of film: Pretty Woman (1990)

It is a story about a business man and a bad girl. At the beginning, there is a party that full of ladies and gentlemen.. And, there have a shot that Edward stands in the room and talking on the phone with his girlfriend. In his mind, business is the most important in his life. Therefore, his girlfriend hate him that always snub her.
After that, there is talking about Vivienne ,the bad girl. She is poor but she is very sexy. In her home, the photos are all without her partner’s head. Its give out a message to the audience that Vivienne hate man or she was hurt by man before.
Then, through the opening sequence, it seems that Edward likes a rich prince and Vivienne is Cinderella that waiting to the prince comes.