Brief Outline of the Film Plot
Our film "DISTURBANCES" is a story of
a group of teenagers investigating mysterious disappearances in a local forest.
Because of this the group are face to face with this unknown evil. Throughout
the film the group gets smaller until there is one person left. We used
various real life films as reference such as "Woman in Black",
"Don't Breathe", 'The Blair Witch Project' and 'Quarantine'
Form
We had an action scene in our opening sequence, this is a
typical feature of the horror genre and it made the sequence a lot faster
paced. There are always production logos at the beginning of the film openings
and so we included them in our one. We had our production company, which were
"Hammer" and our distributer, which was "Warner Bros". When
there is a high budget film, the logo is usually adapted to fit the genre of
the film and since Hammer productions caters to horror films specifically;
there was no issue with this.
The film
openings that we have looked at also had a soundtrack that was eerie and
suspenseful, so the music that we chose was reflecting this. It
is Rachmaninov - Isle of the dead. It has a very slow and eerie orchestral
sound.
Purpose
The purpose of a film opening
is to entice the audience into carrying on watching the film and it should
clearly establish characters and genres. This was done through
dialogue, the dialogue made narration a lot easier as it was an effective
way of getting the audience involved. We decided to use this technique as it
allowed us to give background information to the audience so that they had an
insight on the film to reduce the risk of confusion, whilst still making
it interesting as an increase in a narrative means there is an increase in the
audience’s level of engagement. All films have title scenes also, we made sure
that our titles matched with our genre, it was a great way to help create
suspense. the effect that was chosen was one that was flickering, with letters
coming onto the screen, one at a time (randomly)
Genre
Below is a presentation about genre, it will cover common conventions that typically appear in Horror/Thriller films, it also contains a case study of a thriller.
Narrative Structure
Below is a presentation
about narrative theory, it will be covering 3 separate theorists and how
our film relates to each of them
Style:
Grading
- we took inspiration from the film Se7en. it contains a lot of low-light with
high contrast and low saturation to connote a dark and mysterious atmosphere.
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| Grading from Disturbances |
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| Grading from Se7en |
Titles - we took inspiration from the film Se7en which also had the white on
black for the "contrast" effect. Below are two pictures comparing
them, side by side.
Sound - We took inspiration from The Shining which uses a similar, spooky, classical soundtrack,
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