Title
The title of my film is 'When The Sun Goes Down', i chose this as i want to give off the sense of danger when ' the sun goes down'.
Other films that conform to this style of relating the Title to the Narrative are 'Alien Abduction (a film about alien abductions), V/H/S (a film about horrifying things being found on lost VHS tapes) and the last example I will use is Apollo 18 (a film about the heavily discusses so called 'Apollo 18' moon landing mission, that officials report not to have happened).
Setting/Location
The opening to my short horror story is situated in a forest. I used this is my location as I feel the forest would be a great way to show isolation and fear through the characters and setting.
For example, other films that have used this method of 'found footage' films, based in a forest or at least some parts of the movie are set in woods/forest.
The title of my film is 'When The Sun Goes Down', i chose this as i want to give off the sense of danger when ' the sun goes down'.
this title is also relevant as the main character Ed tells the spectators "see you When The Sun Goes Down', so I decided to do this to show I clear link between the narrative and the title of the film. this represents the importance of 'sun going down' and that when the sun does eventually fade out into night things will start to happen, or at least that is what the characters will be wanting to occur. and that they will find what they are looking for. Other films that conform to this style of relating the Title to the Narrative are 'Alien Abduction (a film about alien abductions), V/H/S (a film about horrifying things being found on lost VHS tapes) and the last example I will use is Apollo 18 (a film about the heavily discusses so called 'Apollo 18' moon landing mission, that officials report not to have happened).
Setting/Location
The opening to my short horror story is situated in a forest. I used this is my location as I feel the forest would be a great way to show isolation and fear through the characters and setting.
For example, other films that have used this method of 'found footage' films, based in a forest or at least some parts of the movie are set in woods/forest.
The main one I looked at for inspiration for was The Blair Witch Project, the basis of this story is relatively similar to my short opening, where young teens/adults go searching in a forest for an 'entity'.
Other films that use forest as either the majority or minority of their films are 'Alien Abduction', 'Willow Creek' and 'A Night in The Woods'.
Costumes and props
In my opening my character (Ed), wears fairly modern clean clothing as he comes from a small village in England within a modern society. This conforms to other films that start with regular/ordinary people or families who either go looking for haunting things/monsters or vice versa.
Taking into consideration that my characters and film are based within a modern society and not a post apocalyptic world or a futuristic world this allows me to use modern things and be able to use normal everyday clothes.
In comparison other films that use a similar style are 'Chronicle', 'A Cabin In The Woods' and 'Paranormal Activity'. All the characters in this film are all everyday people who wear typical clothing in this era.
Camerawork and editing
For the opening to my film I used a handheld camera technique as I wanted the film to be shot all in handheld. this was because I wanted to take on the idea of a 'found footage' film. this was because it would represent a more authentic and realistic film based on true events.
the challenges the typical film conventions of only using handheld camera's when needed for specific moment. as the usual blockbuster will use mounted camera's and so forth.
other films that conform to this film form are films such as 'Cloverfield', 'The blair witch project' and 'Slenderman'.
For the opening to my film I used a handheld camera technique as I wanted the film to be shot all in handheld. this was because I wanted to take on the idea of a 'found footage' film. this was because it would represent a more authentic and realistic film based on true events.
the challenges the typical film conventions of only using handheld camera's when needed for specific moment. as the usual blockbuster will use mounted camera's and so forth.
other films that conform to this film form are films such as 'Cloverfield', 'The blair witch project' and 'Slenderman'.
Font
I have decided to change the style of my font and firstly i feel that the original font was a bit cheesey and unrealistic. secondly i have now gone down the route of having the film 'based on true events' so i wanted to keep a more minimilistic style to my fonts to show the realistic sense i want portrayed through the opening to my film.
i looked at other films based on true strories and used their ideas as inspiration.
The first film i looked at was Fruitvale Station.
then i started to look at horror films that were based on true events. The first one i looked at was An American Haunting.
This title is a little more complex to other titles i've seen due to the font used. The font is more like hand writing, this is used to show that the events that occured were recorded in a book perhaps and they use the font to show this. Also the use a shadow of the font that is out of focus to give the title another layer.
Other film openings i looked at included Wolf Creek which was also based on true evernt s and once again tells the spectators before the films starts. the font used in more simplistic that An American Haunting because is just a plain text. But it has a bit a bit of a yellow tinge to it. and in terms of positioning the title is placed more the the right than the other titles, whereas they would be placed in the centre.
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