RS - Female Killers

This is some  research I have done on the internet. In horror movies, female killers  are extremely rare but here are three of the best and most diverse  female horror villains...

Friday the 13th : Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer)

Scream 2 : Mrs. Loomis (Laurie Metcalf)

Bride Of Chucky : Tiffany

The Ring :  Samara (Daveigh Chase)

For more information click on the hyperlink below
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art11312.asp

ALL - Updated Coursework Idea and Working Title

The Boot

We had to make a couple of changes to our coursework idea such as : 

• We had to change the location because we were unable to film at  our  first  choice, therefore it is a better option to change the reason  he  is  going to this house. 
• Previously he was going to apply for a job as a Groundsman but now  he   is trying to find a new car and has found one in the newspaper so  he   goes to the house to have a look. 

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ALL - Deconstruction Round-Up

After watching our 20 film openings we have pulled a range of ideas from several different films together, we have put together The Top 5 best ideas we have picked up:

1. POV shot used from the original Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978): This is the shot when Michael is a child and goes into the house to kill his older sister. We see the knife in the foreground and the girl in the background about to be stabbed by him. We have chosen this because imagination is better than what we can record because of our budget. POV shots also make the film more immersive and draw you in more.

2. The Narrative Enigma used at the beginning of Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984). This sequence of shots is amazing for us, when Freddy is constructing his glove contraption, we don't see above his shoulders once which is the idea we implemented into our film opening. Using this technique we can conceal the mans identity, this will make the audience think he is the killer when infact he isn't.

3. The False Scare after the opening of Scream (Wes Craven, 1996) The Jock boyfriend, makes his girlfriend jump by putting his hand on her shoulder, the audience think that it is the killers hand on her shoulder but it is his instead, a useful twist.

4. The Mise en Scene in the opening of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974). This uses it to a good extent, it makes you wonder what has happened to the corpse and also what the flashing in the back ground.

5. Dutch Angles used in the opening of My Bloody Valentine (George Mihalka, 1981). The whole aspect of not knowing who the people are, mixed with the narrative enigma of not being able to see their faces makes this opening very successful. 

RS - Sample Opening: Silent Hill

Silent Hill (Christophe Gans, 2006)
Budget : $50 000 000
US Box Office : $45 000 000
UK Box Office : £4 000 000
The film is based on the highly sucessful game franchise

Starts off with a woman in her pyjamas shouting for Sharon, and makes the audience believe it is her daughter (polysemic)
Very dark scene, outside the family house
A man appears behind her on a balcony shouting for Sharon too, we expect him to be her dad
Woman runs around and finds a teddy bear on the floor and lifts it up to her face to inspect it, we guess it belongs to Sharon, she also shouts for her again and runs off
They both continue to run and look for her in the woods and surrounding area
Diagetic sound of crickets and insects in the wood
The woman runs under a bridge with diagetic sound of cars going past above her
Cut shot of the cars wheels above and then a CU of the womans face, she realises the danger above and shouts louder, running once again
Camera pans to a cliffs edge in which the woman runs towards and she looks down to a huge chasm, shouting once again to see if she has fallen
She finally notices Sharon above her to the side in some kind of trance or possessed. Her eyes are black, it looks as though the devil or some creature is inside her
Sharon sees something in the chasm and the camera moves down into it showing some weird CG effects and then moves back to Sharon who has now dropped to the floor in pain, screaming
She screams "Silent hill!"
The parents finally reach her and hold her in their arms trying to comfort her saying "we are here now" "it will be okay" "you will be fine now" before finally zooming out and "Silent Hill" is on the screen signifying the end of the opening

RS - Sample Opening: IT

Stephen Kings It (Tommy Lee Wallace, 1990)
Budget : Not Available
Box Office : Not Available

Begins with an old theater, with the writing all wonky perhaps forshadowing something
Lightning in the background signifying a storm coming for foreshadowing things to happen
Clothes on washing line blowing in the wind of the storm coming
CU of cups/pots full of water and rain pouring into them
Girl on her tricycle peddling down the road and singing "incy wincy spider" which is ironic because the clown in the film lives in a drain
Her mother is taking the washing down and brining it inside, she sees her daughter and asks her to hurry because of the storm
The girl walks towards the front door but sees her doll in the middle of the path up to the door and stops to pick it up
She looks at it, but then hears laughing from behind the washing line, she stops and looks over to see the clown looking right at her.
The clown moves in for the kill
The mother walks out the door to get more washing to find her daughter has gone missing
The tricycle is just left on the path and she lets out a big scream ending the scene

RS - Sample Opening: My Blooded Valentine

My Bloody Valentine (George Mihalka, 1981)
Budget : $2 000 000

Box Office : Not Available
Remake released in 2009


First shot is at a dutch angle and the two people in the shot are wearing helmets for narrative enigma so we don't know who they are.
The two people are both holding picaxes foreshadowing things to come
Both fully clothed and nothing is exposed
The next few shots are all using dutch angle
Non-diagetic sound is used in the soundtrack because you can't see it in the film.
Diagetic sound is also used when one of the people move the objects in the way of the path, they make a noise replicating the movement. You can also hear the people breathing in their masks
They both stop next to a wall and one of the two begins to look around and see if anyone is watching them, foreshadowing actions to happen.
The other person is undressing, revealing a red heart tatoo above her breasts, again foreshadowing blood, death and also romance.
The person takes off her helmet revealing a typical "scream queen" stereotype underneath, we expect her to be killed because of this, and the fact she is sexually active with only her bra on.
The other person gets close the woman and then slams his picaxe into the wall behind her, at first it looks as though it is going to hit her. This is just a false scare.
The woman then starts un dressing the man, reiterating the face that she is sexually active
We begin to hear a heart beat getting louder and louder as the two people rub each other and feel each other
The other persons helmet stays on, and theres an ECU of the womans tatoo and his hands shaking next to it, signifying he is going mental because of her and the tatoo
The other person then rams the woman into the picaxe that had been in the wall behind her, in anger. 

AN - Sample Opening: Halloween Remake

Halloween (Rob Zombie, 2007)
Budget : $15 000 000
US Box Office : $58 000 000
Remake of the 1978 classic

White sans serif font is used for the opening title along with a black background.
A quote then appears by Dr Loomis which says "The darkest souls are not those which choose to exist within the hell of the abyss, but those which choose to break free from the abyss and move silently among us."
A child's voice can be heard in the background along with a distorted noise and this could symbolise the death of innocence.
Close up of young Michael picking up a rat.
Shot reverse shot used for the arguement between Michael's parents.
The baby's crying symbolises the pain between the couple.
Shakey camera used for most of the shots which for our oppositional reading is unnecessary