Group Work - Plan for Production - Plots and Stock Situations

As a group we watched a few horror trailers with similar themes to our trailer that we want to create. It was Nassim's task to upload screen shots of each trailer showing plot and stock situation we would like to use. The trailers we looked at were; Carrie, Tormented, Unfriended and GoodNight Mommy.

Ideas for our Film Title

Silence to Kill

We came up with a few film title names but this is the title that we have discussed in detail. As a group we think this title "fits" with our film however a convention of horror film titles is that the title relates to the killer. Their backstory to be specific. Our killer's story is based upon bullying, isolation, loneliness where the only recognition he gets is from his parents when they teach him not to sin. The silence would represent the little recognition he gets from society. From our discussion, I believe our group is in the correct mind set to create a successful film title for our trailer.

Group Planning - Planning For Production - Themes

Theses are the themes that our group came up with in a discussion, I have taken screen shots from other horror films to get some inspiration on how to film and represent these themes in our trailer.

The appropriate themes:-

FEAR

 

Psychopath -

Loneliness -

Death - 

Unknown vs. Known - 

 

Bullying - 

Group Work - Planning for Production - Locations

Hayley's Blog We also discussed the location we would need and if possible to film them there. We came to an agreement so we now have a selection of locations in which we could use. During the past year I have learnt that it is much easier and simpler to have locations that are local, to film, it allows us to have more time to film.

Group Work - Planning for Production - Icons

As a group we had a discussion about what props we want to use and what we need to provide. The icons chosen are to help us portray the genre of horror and to give hints of the killer's past. This blog post was Hayley's responsibility to upload.

Group Planning - Planning for Production - Inital ideas

These are notes are from class, of some initial ideas that we thought of. Killers and their backstories. We developed these ideas from our top three fears, as a group. We developed the killers personality and reasons for killing. An idea we came up with is the killer was abandoned in his childhood - parents not paying attention of him because they are too occupied with their lives.

To each of the fears we tried to give them stories/plots. As you can see, we did not come up with one for slow death because we found it quite difficult to come to an agreement on a narrative we all liked and also that made sense and was logical. Each idea we came up with was very complex and difficult to understand.

Group Planning - Film Synopsis

Our group realized that our original synopsis was too far from our story idea and we confused ourselves, so we decided to re-write it, and more detail and telling the narrative;

From a young age Cain was deprived from a normal lifestyle. He grew up in a obsessively religious household where the only attention he received was moral and religious teachings, other than that he was ignored by family an people at school. He was isolated therefore obsessed with getting attention. He started with the kids at school, a campaign, of killing people based on moral judgments. He wanted to get attention for these killings so he sent them anomalously on social media. People share the killing and the attention grew therefore he started to kill more people because he was finally getting the attention he craved all his life. A group of students started to investigate the murders. Are they sin free? They may be next.....