In the opening two minutes we see the victim (which is
Emma) walks to the bridge. This shall make it more effective and realistic as
it shows that its a place where we filmed which shall make the audience know
that we made it ourselves and its original. We watched many horror movie
trailers and we didn’t see any of the movies use the background for their title
sequence. However, what we used for our title sequence was the pathway we used
for filming (hence the movie title ‘the pathway’), in a black and white effect,
then white writing over the top of the picture, giving it and a more eerie effect.
- Setting/location
- Costumes and props.
From this picture we can see the victims costume (which is
Emma). This is used in a wide variety of horror films, where a casual, normal
teenage girl, gets haunted by an antagonist (which in our 2 minute film – is
Jordan). This links to many horror films.
This type of costume worn by our antagonist (Jordan) makes him feel out of place to anything else in the film, we can see that he looks more mysterious and scarier. Next time we film a horror we shall consider what the antagonist wears to make it go with our opening two minutes and fits within a typical horror film. Next time, we will make the antagonist (Jordan) wear more black clothing, without any logos, this would make it scarier and more eerie and may have a good/scary effect on the audience
- Camerawork and editing.
- Title font and style.
- The font style and colour we chose for our title isn't a normal horror cliche type of style for a title. The font style we chose is simple as we have chosen a background from the setting we used. We didn't want to make our title look over the top as we didn't want the title to be the main part of our opening two minutes we want the audience to remember whats included in our opening two minutes and whats going to happen as we feel that its the important bit to make the audience want to see the rest of the film. The title of our film can be similar to some horror films whereas, others use different styles and fonts which depends on what there film is about. We find that our title font and style links with our opening two minutes the pathway.
- Story and how the opening sets it up.
The story of our film is when the antagonist (Jordan) kills a victim which is a normal teenage girl and the once he’s done with her he shall find someone who was close to her then this carries on and towards the end we find out what he does and how he does it. The opening sets it up as we can infer that there are deaths involved in our horror film as we start the opening two minutes at a graveyard and the next victim is reading her friends letter she wrote before she was killed from the antagonist (Jordan). Furthermore, we see the antagonist (Jordan) following the victim wherever she goes. He followed her from the graveyard to the bridge where the first victim (Emma) shall have died from which is hopefully where the audience can infer this. We see the antagonist (Jordan) walking up behind the victim (Emma) whilst she is looking over the bridge and once she turned around a saw the antagonist she turned around again and looked as if she had been attack by the antagonist as her face looked distort. In the opening two minutes we don't see whether the victim (Emma) dies or what happens to me which shall give more suspense and tension towards the audience what shall build up more tension within the film and towards the audience which is what horror films do as it wants to get the audience involved in with the film and they feel engaged with the characters which is when they can feel what the characters are going through especially the victim (Emma) the music we have included and used links with the tension of the opening to minutes, as we get closer to finding out what the killer looks like by face and how he kills his victims, it then tricks the audience then we don't find out which shall make the audience want to watch the horror film as they shall find out what happens. This is the point in a horror genre film.
- Genre and how the opening suggest it.
- The opening of our two minutes infers that its a horror genre as its at a graveyard and you can insinuate that there is deaths and killing included within the opening two minutes which usually takes place in a horror film. Throughout the opening two minutes more things happen within the scenes like being introduced to the antagonist which doesn't give to much away as it doesn't show the events which happen to the victims,which is what horror films tend to do as it puts the audience more in suspense and builds up tension. We have a scene on the bridge where the antagonist is watching the victim and slowly goes behind her and she turns around looking normal then transforms to looking possessed which ends with a scream which shall make the audience feel more engaged within the film and shall be wanting to see what happens after the opening two minutes of the pathway which is why our opening two minutes goes into a genre of horror.
- How the characters are introduced.
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This is where we see the main character introduced and the
girl who lost her friend from the antagonist (Jordan) which hasn’t been
included yet, but comes in later in the scene and the audience don't know how
this happened. By introducing to the audience the next victim (Emma) at the
graveyard shall make it known to the audience that she is going to be approach
by the antagonist within the opening two minutes or the rest of the film. This
is link every other typical horror movie as we see the victim (Emma) stand
alone in a graveyard, looking over her best friends grave, reading a letter her
friend left her before she died. There
is no noise around the graveyard and we add sound to make a more eerie, so the
audience can sense something’s bad going to happen or the antagonist (Jordan)
will be coming into the scene soon
- This is one of the other main characters within the opening two minutes. We are introduced to him second he is the antagonist. We are introduced to him as he is standing behind a tree and appears whilst the next victim (Emma) is at her friends grave reading a letter from her telling her to run as what she referred to as 'him' that he's coming and the next victim (Emma) needs to run. We see during the opening two minutes the antagonistic scrunching up a picture of the first victim he targeted then the next which was her friend. He does this in an angry way like they've done something wrong or hes just disturbed in making his victims life's hell. The antagonist follows the victim to the bridge where he watches her for a few seconds without her knowing then in small steps he gets closer and closer behind her as she turned around something happened whilst she was doing that and the antagonistic attack her in some way which we don't see in the opening two minutes. We see the victim looking possessed by the antagonist as he encroached her. This links with this character fitting into a typical horror genre film as not alot is given away at this point in the film as its only the opening two minutes which is what the majority of horror films tend to do which is where our introducing of the characters is fitting in with a horror genre type of film.
- Even though we don't meet the first victim we are still introduced by her as it briefly explains what it going to happen during the the film and what is going to be included. As she writes a letter telling her friend that shes sorry and was warning her friend to run and fight back and said ' its too late for me, but not too late for you' This gives us the impression that the same thing the antagonist did is going to happen to the second victim (Emma). This tends to happen in typical horror films where you don't meet a victim and they give you the information the audience needs to feel involved within the opening two minutes. Films like the ring include this. However, both of the girls are alive and one of the girls doesn't believe her friend about a tape. This links with how the next victim warning her friend which died telling her not to do something which we don't find out within the opening two minutes.
- Special effects.
- For the special effects we used slow motion. This effect slows down
the scene which shall have an effect on the audience has the scene slows
down and makes there have more tension. Has it slowly hits the floor
the audience shall be thinking and trying to insinuate whats going to
happen next. Slow motion shall make people remember that scene as its
the only bit in slow motion and has impact on the audience. Horror films
like saw use slow motion which has an effect on the film and
the audience.
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