OPENENING SEQUENCE OF MY HORROR FILM

Planning Opening Sequences

1. Decide on which sequence is going to be constructed in your group?

2. Begin to plan out the construction:

· Locations? (consider cost and distance)
· Who is required? (Cast)
· Think about narrative elements? (Story)
· Mise en Scene – (mood/ style/ genre/ elements

Then story board out shots:

What is a Horror film?

I thought this video on Youtube was quite helpful.

Horror films exploit the audiences Fears or Terrors. For example, horror films often incorporate these aspects into the narrative, as these are all common fears;

• the fear of the unknown/monsters
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• the fear of the body being ripped/ mutilated
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• people’s personal boundaries being crossed/ someone in your house,
  
  People enjoy horror films because it allows them to identify with and experience these fears from a safe distance.
  
  Ideologies discussed with in horrors
  
  
• Themes of punishment, Rejection and Repulsion at subjects that are considered ‘wrong’ within society.
  
• The condemnation of any deviant beliefs/values/religions (such as NON CHRISTIAN behaviour, for example, the virgin, non-smoker, non-drinker, ‘good’ girl surviving at the expense of her rebellious, ‘slutty’ counterparts.
  
• Our modern perception that the power of science can defeat the ‘Darkness’, in contrast to our older beliefs in religion and superstition. For example, the modern Halloween, a Dr trying to treat the murderer because he is ‘mental’, has developed from Dracula being treated by the priest with holy water and crosses.
  
• Exploitation of subtle fears, that gradually build suspense without out much explicit imagery, they are psychological and allow the imagination to create its own fears, alternatively ‘Slashers’ (Halloween, Friday 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street) are very explicit and have limited implicit messages, they are very visually obvious and not so much psychological.
• Horror films suggest that all escaped mental patients go out and stab people and all hitchhikers are really murderers, however is that really the case? But horror films create this misconception.

ANGELDUST (HORROR POWERPOINT)

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