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Film Brief

Our task is to create the first two minutes of a horror film. We have researched into the genre of horror in order to gain an understanding into what we should include in our piece.

The purpose of creating the first two minutes of a horror film is to gain a strong understanding of the genre of horror.

We chose the genre of horror because it is very adaptable, and has many sub-genres. This genre also provides an opportunity to include multiple camera angles, sound effects and editing techniques.

Our film starts with a man lying in a field with a mysterious circle around him. He wakes, confused and disoriented and begins to search for signs of life. When he notices something following him in some nearby bushes, he begins to move quicker, being chased by the mysterious figure. As he begins to move faster, he trips over a body lying in the field. More bodies begin to appear, haunting his sight and causing him distress. He looks around, to find that the bodies he saw have mysteriously disappeared and before he has a chance to stand, the figure approaches him...

Our film is set in a rural village in the south of England. Residents of the village have begun to go missing, leaving only a mysterious ring burnt in the ground as clue to their disappearance. A group of students staying in a local hostel, who have heard about the myth of the ‘ring murderer’, begin to realise strange happenings where they’re staying.

When they notice a ring burnt onto their floor, the students begin to panic, knowing that if the ring murderer really does exist, they’re next on his list.

During the night, one of the students goes missing and the rest go out to save the kidnapped student from their fate, leading to a disturbing discovery and fight for their survival.

The students discover the true identity of the ring murderer as the owner of the hostel they were staying in, but before they have a chance to escape and reveal the truth, they are confronted by the ring murderer and are slaughtered. During the violent scene, the students appear to kill the ring murderer, but the film ends with the antagonist walking down the village streets with a can of petrol in his hand.

We want the film to create the feeling of tension and mystery, leaving the audience unsettled and wanting to know the identity of the antagonist. As questions are answered, more are made, leaving the audience unnerved and slightly confused at the end of the film.

Development of Ideas

After much discussion, we have come up with a plot for the first two minutes of our film. the idea came from discussion over two similar ideas that we had; we then worked them together to create one final idea.

After coming up with a basic plot for our film intro, we have then developed the initial idea by adding and removing parts. for example, the idea started with a man waking up to see a bright light in the distance. We removed the idea of the bright light, and instead decided to use moonlight as a way of proving light to the scene and creating shadows.

We have not yet come up with a name or full plot for our film and are still in the stages of discussion. Some of the names we have come up with or have been suggested to us are:-

• Horror Ball
• Bodies
• Shadows
• Rings

Niether of us feel that these name ideas work for our film idea, however.

Gantt Chart 2

Gantt Chart 2

The Shining Remake Film

To practice creating a horror film, we made a remake of the hallway scene from the cult horror film "The Shining". This helped to give us a strong idea of what camera angles, filming techniques and editing techniques we should use when it comes to creating our horror opening. While editing the film, we found the sound to be a problem due to classes running, and students making noise in the background. To combat this, we dubbed the original soundtrack from the hallway scene over our version and synced the voises to make it seem diegetic. If we were to film this again, we feel we could've used better colourcorrection in order to achieve a better film look.

Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas

In order to think of an idea for the opening of our film, we initially created this mind map showing all of our initial ideas of what the film could contain. By mind mapping all of our initial ideas, we have a clear document to put together and think of the final idea for our horror opening.

Gantt Chart

Gantt Chart