Horror Poster Draft 2 (Joel)

Horror Poster Draft 1(Joel)

Horror Magazine 1st Draft(Joel)

changing our film title.(mariama)

                   DEMENTED VS THE UNKNOWN

We decided to change our film title from 'The demented' to the 'The Unknown', because found that their had already being a horror film called ' Demented' released in 1980,is about a woman who was gang-raped in a horse's stable,she is harassed many moons later by ghastly visions of her tormentors, while her husband philanders and every little thing frightens her out of her wits.

Due to copy write, we felt that changing changing the title of our film would be for the best.

We choose the film title 'the unknown' as it still worked with our synopsis about a craz school keeper, and as the students did not not know of his existants it worked well with calling teh film the unknown .                      

RAW IMAGES 2

                     RAW IMAES OF OUR VILLIAN

we took raw images of our villian for our magazine, in different angles to see if which angle of our villin would best suit our magazine.

Raw Photos

RAW IMAGES

here are some of therawimages that we took showing one of our victims

sfx-make up (mariama)

During one of our media lessons we had a special effects make up artist coming to tell us a bit about himself and the his works, on top off that thought us about how to use liquid latex to create realistic looking scaring or wounds such as bullet wounds, knife wounds , he also thought us how to make it seem that a needle or glass has gone through your hands. Although we had already decided that we was not going to use any latex, the hour was still a very interesting one

SFX-BLOOD PT2 (mariama)

                             WHAT FAKE BLOOD WE USED

We used liquid fake blood which is made of sugar, so that it is safe to use, as it would not  in any way harm the , actor, so we were able to place it into our actors mouth. We also used for the screwdriver scene .

We used a pepermint flavour blood
Ben Nye stage blood 2 fl oz 59ml
Realistic vivid colouring medim flowing viscosity. Peppermint flavour
Price: £4.69 (Excluding VAT at 20%)

A LABLE FOR:

Professional Video liquid Arterial Blood 60ml.

Realistic colouring, and smearing

Safe in the mouth

however we recommend you dont swallow it.
Price: £34.65

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                         OTHER TYPES OF BLOOD AND THEIR PURPOSE!!

Ben Nye Fresh Scab 1oz
Authentic brownish - blood tint for older dried blood clotting effects. Doesnt completly set, but the outer "scabs over". warning may stain some fabrics. test before use
Price: £4.69 (Excluding VAT at 20%)

Ben Nye Thick Blood 1 oz
Moist Jam like texture. Can be used to fill wounds.
Price: £4.69 (Excluding VAT at 20%)

Eye Blood 20ml
approved for use in theatre will last for 10-20 minutes.
Price: £10.78 (Excluding VAT at 20%)

Blood Capsules pk 10
Gelatine capsules which disolve in the mouth with non toxic red powdered pigment
Price: £5.61 (Excluding VAT at 20%)

SFX-BLOOD (mariama)

                       HOW WE USED FAKE BLOOD



We as a group decided we did not want to make our teaser trailer as grousome as others, we wanted to keep it quite simple, so we decided too use  a limited amount of fake blood.

 on the our victims grey t-shirt and lips as you can see in the image to your left.

And on our villians screwdriver

Ideas Behind Costumes

                          MORE ON WHY WE CHOOSE THE COSTUME

Considering our target audience we wanted to add realism to our trailer by clothing our actors in costumes that our audience could relate to. This will be successful in targeting our audience because they will feel that the actors are a representation of the society that our audience is familiar of.

The costumes used by our male and female actors should represent how their age group dress on a day to day basis in the urban area from 2008 to present. Stern Productions feels that this is essential part of the trailer that will contribute massively towards the success of the trailer.

some examples of costume used by one of our actors

JEANS                                                                                                        PLAIN GREY T-SHIRT

Costumes Used (Joel)

This bomber jacket is exceptionally popular in the urban community amongst the males in most urban areas due to its 'puffyness' which alllows boy to look quite intimdating and big. This will be effective in creating an unfamiliar villain in the horror genre but also familiar with the urban society.

The Balaclava will be recognised as an clothing item used by many small time criminals in order to conceal their identity. This will create irony because it is being used in a different way than what societ expects the Balaclava to be made.

Plain black primark t-shirts that give an close portrayal of how many young teenages dress on a daily basis.

Combat jeans are worn by many young teenage girls and boys so this will be a good reflection of both genders in society.

Our villian character (mariama)

                         Demented

CHARACTER PROFILE:

Demented is anonymous man, who guards the college at night whilst going on a  frantic,uncontrollable, enjoyable killing spree , punishing students such as bullies, as he himself was tormented by bullies as a child , he gets a thrill out of watching society's young wrong doers die . Demented moves quietly but quickly, strongly built, lurks in the shadows.

COSTUME: Demented dressers as one of the students, blacked out in a puffy jacket, and a ski mask, we got the idea of covering his face with something from the character profile of Hannibal.We thought the ski mask would give him an edge.

WEAPON: most contemporary horror villains tend to use, fearful weapons such as a chainsaw used by the Leather face in 'The Texas chainsaw massacer'. or the claws used by the character of Freddy Kruger  'In nightmare on elm street'.

We went for a simple,everyday house hold tool, a screw driver, we felt that, that would make our villain different from others, an question such us 'where did he get that weapon from he works at the school?' would not be asked.

STORYBOARD

Research on character and weapons (mariama)

                        CHARACTER PERSONALITY PROFILE

JIGSAW:We took a more closer look at the character of Jigsaw, and found that he was not pychically involved in the  murders of his victims his methods of killing his victims we different for other phyichological  horror chacters Jigsaw himself thoes not hold weapons unlike the charcter of jason in Friday the thirteen. Jigsaw methods would have been difficult to attempt to reconstruct and time consuming.

FREDDY KRUEGER: Krueger from the film 'nightmare on elm street' is an undead man,  who can attack his victims from within their own dreams. He is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured face, red and dark green striped sweater,black top hat, and his trademark metal-clawed and  brown leather glove. 

MIKE MYERS:Myers  from the film ' Halloween' is a man who is seeking revenge on the people who placed him in the mental institution after he killed his sister as a child, we will notice him from his, janitor like overalls, and has a long kitchen butcher knife, throught out the film we do not see his face as he is constantly wearing a mask.

HANNAIBAL LECTOR:Hannaibal from 'the film 'the silence of the lamb' is a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. He is described as being small and sleek, and with  strength in his arms. Hannibal's weapon is his trademark teeths which he takes bites out of people with, so is seen wearing a dog mask to prevent him from biting.

Research storyline (mariama)

                  STORYLINE RESEARCH 


We as a group went home and watched some psychological horror films, such as Halloween (2007), we paid attention to the storyline, In 'Saw 1and 2 ', 'Nightmare on elm street'we saw that most psychological horror follow a contempoary storyline of revenge. In Halloween Mike Myers aims to punish thoese who put him in the mental institutions whilst in Saw the charcter of Jigsaw aimed to punish thoese who do wrong in society.

We really liked the concept of punishing wrong doers in society but at the same time we wanted to combinded the concept of revenge. so combined both people seeking out revenge, and atempting to teach them that revenge is not the way, we felt as a group would be a good concept .Hinting as to why our storyline is about people seeking revenge for being kicked out of college and then getting punished for their wrong doings.

We also watched a comedy Horror called The Janitor (2003), which is about a janitor who faces daily disrespect and abuse from his co-workers so he sets of to kill them

Since we already had a school building, we thought of basing our storyline around the college.

Audience Research (mariama)

                                               QUESTION 1,2 AND 3

1)  What gender are you?                                                                   Male Female   Prefer not to say

  

2) How old are you? Above 30   24-29   18-23   12-17

  

3)  What is your ethnicity? White    Black   Mexican   Asian   Other (Please Specify):

  

We asked questions 1-3 because we wanted to find a target audience we could aim our teaser trailer at .the results shows us how many male and female audience answered our questionnaire how old they are and their enthnicity this was important to us,as it helps us to target our teaser trailer to a specific target audinece. Our target audience is  Black 19-23 male.

Audience Research (mariama)

QUESTION 4 AND 5 4) DO YOU GO TO THE CINEMAS? YES    NO

5)  How often do you attend the cinemas in one year? more than 20 times a year   15-20 times a year    9-14 times a year   3-8 times a year    less than 3 times year

 We asked questions 4-5 because we wanted to know how many people attended cinemas as most teaser trailers are first seen in the adverts at the cinemas.The results show that 37 out of the 40 audiences i asked attended cinemas and 29 of them attened cinemas more that 9 times a year.

Audience Research (mariama)

QUESTION 6,7,8,9 AND 10 6)  What is your favourite genre you enjoy watching? Romance    Horror   Science-fiction   Drama    Comedy Other (Please Specify):

  

7) Do you enjoy watching Horror films? Yes   No

  

8)  What is your favourite type of horror genre?  Psychological Horror Supernatural  Horror  Dark Fantasy  Horror Gothic Horror Other (Please Specify):

    

9)  Out of your list below which of these horror films have you watched? Saw ( any of the Saw series)   Final Destination (any of the destination series)   Drag me to hell   Freddy vs. Jason   All the above Other (Please Specify):      We asked questions 6-9 because we wanted to see if our target audience is interested in watching Horror and what types of horror films they have seen. the results show that 16 people choose the horror genre as there favourite genre and 28 people enjoy watching horror movies.  question 8 showed us that 13 people preferred psychological horror, that was very important as it allowed us to build our storyline based on our audience research. in question 9 we find that 29 out of the 40 audience members asked have watched the above horror films.