In our movie, we
tried to use the existing conventions of horror movies to pull audiences in
with elements they were familiar with, but then change those elements as the
movie goes on so the audience essentially gets a richer movie that isn't
worried about scaring off potential viewers with its changes. Conducting
research into already existing movies and products helped us to realise what
typical audiences go out to see and what’s popular at the current time. Cabin in the Woods is a movie we closely looked into as
it challengers many conventions, such as having the stereotypical strong and
athletic male as a smart character. We idolise this as a good example of
conventions being challenged as it’s the first movie in years that dared to be
unique and change the gender roles in order to create a more interesting
movie.
Our movie opening follows similar patterns and structures to that of the opening of Seven. The disjointed symbolism and setting up of the antagonist is heavily present in our opening as we realised that the movie, being a supernatural horror classic, creates a very eerie and suitable atmosphere for the movie, factors we tried to replicate. What we have created here we feel is very up to date on the style and conventions of horror due to the various symbolic imagery and effects used. Initially, we aimed to have no background music and to have the entire opening filled with dialogue, filled with foreboding phrases that would set up the movie. We eventually decided against this as we wanted people not to have much of an idea as to where the movie would be going. As our target audience is a mix of both male and female and a good age range, we hope that everyone attracted to the movie feels as though they are all going into the movie without knowing too much about it, which essentially stops the audience from spoiling the movie for themselves. We feel this is very important as a movie such as The Amazing Spider-man 2, owned by Sony, showed too much of their movie prior to its initial release and so may have resulted in its “unsuccessful” time at the box office and we worked hard to make sure this was stayed well away from.
The background music was intentional to unnerve the audience so they would feel as though what they are watching is having a real psychological effect on them, as Horror movies are made to achieve. We initially wanted to create our own background music and structure it in such a way that we felt it would add to the atmosphere of the opening. But due to lack of time we decided against this, and find a safer route to take, which we feel is just effective in adding to the atmosphere. The choice to have no dialogue is inspired by the opening of Under The Skin. Here the movie opened with a series of shots to establish a character and the overall tone/premise of the movie, without any/little use of dialogue. We felt this was a very effective idea as the images themselves tell the audience what is going on and how the story will progress, which is what we feel we accomplished.
Our movie opening follows similar patterns and structures to that of the opening of Seven. The disjointed symbolism and setting up of the antagonist is heavily present in our opening as we realised that the movie, being a supernatural horror classic, creates a very eerie and suitable atmosphere for the movie, factors we tried to replicate. What we have created here we feel is very up to date on the style and conventions of horror due to the various symbolic imagery and effects used. Initially, we aimed to have no background music and to have the entire opening filled with dialogue, filled with foreboding phrases that would set up the movie. We eventually decided against this as we wanted people not to have much of an idea as to where the movie would be going. As our target audience is a mix of both male and female and a good age range, we hope that everyone attracted to the movie feels as though they are all going into the movie without knowing too much about it, which essentially stops the audience from spoiling the movie for themselves. We feel this is very important as a movie such as The Amazing Spider-man 2, owned by Sony, showed too much of their movie prior to its initial release and so may have resulted in its “unsuccessful” time at the box office and we worked hard to make sure this was stayed well away from.
The background music was intentional to unnerve the audience so they would feel as though what they are watching is having a real psychological effect on them, as Horror movies are made to achieve. We initially wanted to create our own background music and structure it in such a way that we felt it would add to the atmosphere of the opening. But due to lack of time we decided against this, and find a safer route to take, which we feel is just effective in adding to the atmosphere. The choice to have no dialogue is inspired by the opening of Under The Skin. Here the movie opened with a series of shots to establish a character and the overall tone/premise of the movie, without any/little use of dialogue. We felt this was a very effective idea as the images themselves tell the audience what is going on and how the story will progress, which is what we feel we accomplished.
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