Unit 19 Learning Aim C: Research

 

Ruben Chandler                                                     05/11/2021

 Short Film

INTRODUCTION 

This Movie is a horror, Mystery genre movie it involves a man fearing for his life as an entity follows him to his house 

RESEARCH

Friday the 13th is a horror, slasher film involving a serial killer, Jason Voorhees  with a demented backstory, He thrives off of killing teenagers and haunting them in their camps the franchise as a whole revolves around  the masochist Jason whos only point of living is to ensure the death of Camp crystal lake, killing everyone there

Genre: 

• Horror 

• Mystery

Subgenres 

• Psychological

• Psychosis 

• Phobia

• Chase

• Supernatural  

Inspiration:

Movie: Insidious (character: Man with the fire on his face, sixtass, or the red demon)

 

Movie: Last night in Soho (inspirations from character shots e.g Mirror scene and crack scene)

Game: Apex Legends Revenant trailer (Evil mirror scene)

Clip: Apex Legends: Season 4 - Official Revenant Cinematic Trailer

times : 1:09-1:43 and 1:50-2:40

Tropes

• Unexplained entity 

• Claustrophobic 

• Being followed

Setting 

• Takes place in house, enclosed building

• Preferably night time

Equipment

• Camera

• Mask

• Baggy clothes for killer

• Longboard

• Camera stabilizer 

• Tripod 

• Boom arm 

• Boom mic 

Roles

• Actor 1

• Actor 2

• Extras 

• Stuntmen

Basic roles

• Director

• Assistant director 

• Sound crew

• Cameraman

• Grip

• Market 

• Boom operator

Actor 1: main character - being chased (??/Seb)

Actor 2: antagonist/entity - chases actor 1 (Ruben)

Extras: bumps into actor 1 (Seb/???)

Stuntmen: mirror for actor 1 (look alike to actor 1)

Basic Script:

Guy (actor 1) is walking on the street when he hears ghastly footsteps nearby and gets chased by an entity. [Stage direction] - {Sounds from Phone play to add an eerie effect.}

He turns the corner to his house and the camera picks up a black entity (slight picture). {stage direction] - {increased eerie sounds}

He then goes into his house and feels the entity within the house. He tries to clear his mind, he goes to the bathroom and looks into the mirror and sees the entity in the mirror then it cuts to the end with the mirror cracking and the room being pitch black

Some creepy sounds to be used for the scenes

Bleach:

Creeping shadows

Choked

Raw breath of danger

Mcu:

Winter soldier suite

Fullmetal alchemist :

Entracte

Lurking

What the audience can expect:

This movie is a horror movie involving the trope of entities and evil spirits. The audience can expect a scary film in which the soundtrack will be used to convey the horror or current emotion in the scene, The horror movie doesn't require much dialogue as the silence addresses the ambiguity and fear towards the entity as it lurks closer and closer

Short film analysis

Film to analyze: Friday the 13th

Narrative: a boy jumps into  a river and dies then his mum brings him back from the dead vengeful and begins to go on a killing rampage in camp where he died

Character: Jason Vorhees

Mise en scene: 

Cinematography: 

Editing: 

Sound: