Hi. My name is Isabella Garcia and the movie I aspire to create is a horror genre film and I want to be able to create it in a way that leaves the audience in a trance to what is happening before their very own eyes. The audience is to figure out the puzzle or include their interpretations of the film.
The basic conventions of my movie will include a theme of paranoia and suspense. To pull this off, I will have a naive girl in the film opening that is the first to die off. She will be dressed in minimal casual clothing because in the horror genre females are always addressed by their sexual appeal and in most cases, an attractive female or couple will be the first to die off by the antagonist in the film opening. The style of the film will be psychological horror and insanity is the concept because the characters will be crazed by their mind. The
Most horror film openings include one or several deaths by a deluded psycho killer or a supernatural being. The first death is located in an isolated area where nobody else will hear the screams and it has low-key lighting to create a suspenseful mood. In the opening of Friday the 13th, the first deaths were a couple who went out to have intimacy in a shed away from the campfire. The antagonist stalks them until they are vulnerable and strikes head on killing the male then the female as her screams echo onto the next scene. An opening sequence creates the feeling of suspense by not showing the antagonist and having a murder set off the chain reaction. The film opening can show deaths, the antagonist, and what the movie will consist of. The opening of Scream consists of a naive female who is home alone when she gets a phone call. The female answers the phone and it’s the killer in which she goes head to head with him on a chase which eventually ends in death.
Antagonist is watching the vulnerable couple
The male is killed after he confronts the killer
The female is last to be killed and her screams echo onto the next scene
Friday the 13th (1980) film opening
The female is on the phone with the antagonist, but doesn’t know his intentions just yet
Once the antagonist is saying alerting her fear and sense, she starts to get paranoid and watch her surroundings
The female has had enough psychological torment and wails to the killer to leave her alone
Scream (1996) film opening
The settings in the horror genre includes an isolated area that prevents any sort of rescue from helping the characters. It can be shot at an old house/abandoned buildings, the woods, a camp site, cemeteries, amusement parks, dorms, towns, asylums, hotels/motels, and the list continues.
A cabin in the woods
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
An isolated campsite
Friday the 13th (1980)
zombie infested amusement park
Zombieland (2009)
The intended audience for my film is those who are intrigued by the love of horror and are interested by my film synopsis. Those individuals will be able to boast about my film and be able to critique it drawing in an audience. Their movie going habits who be seeing the film on opening or premier day and who are able to see it whenever they are free while the movie is still in theaters. I will draw in the audience by showing a suspenseful trailer that does not too much or too little, but just enough to create a scare and curiosity. There will be challenges or hashtags that would be showcased to a mass of individuals and have them be intrigued to why it is trending.
The title of films in my genre are showcased in huge and bold lettering. They are coated in the exact color scheme as the film poster and the lettering is in times new roman font, thick outline, and capital not lowercase. The information needed in the titles is the name of the film, an appealing or haunting image and for additional uses a luring quote. The title of the film correlates with the synopsis of the movie and the poster goes hand in hand with it.
Bold and capital letters along with the audience seeing the word Devil being spelled. The image shows two characters with latin spelling surrounding them and the haunting quote, “You haven’t seen true evil”
The appealing image is a couple getting intimate in a tight space. The color of the title goes with the blue color scheme.
The typical social group represented in the horror genre are the females and males. The females can either be a skeptic or sexualized because in the world of horror the sexualized females are the ones who run off with a male to be intimate and die off whereas the skeptic female is the strong lead and she goes head to head with the killer. The males mostly give off sex appeal with their physique or they can be inputted to offer comedic relief. They handle the heavy lifting duty which is beating up the killer or saving the female in a crisis. The females can be stereotyped by being a dense blonde, the virgin, defenseless victim, the final girl, or the surprise killer. The males can be the jock, a friend or the antagonist.
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
the jock, the book smart, the blonde, the fool, and the virgin
Driving Insanity 