2. We researched Hammer Horrors, a British horror film brand based in London. We researched this to develop and understand what constitutes a British film. British films, especially independent ones, have a low budget so there is no CGI or digital technology. Hammer films are a good example of this, also This Is England and Shifty are low budgeted British films. Also, with British films they tend to have low budget setting and less famous actors, this shows in different British films and will be the same in ours. We would like to work with the production company UK Film Council and the distribution optimum releasing because they are both well known so would bring in viewers that have watched movies recently produced and distributed by them. They are both UK based and have worked with independent film makers like Shane Meadows. The UK Film Council ‘work to make non-mainstream films more widely available to cinema audiences and support the export of UK films abroad.’
3. We did primary research to see what films had been watched and how they had been watched from teenagers aged around 16. The most popular genres were Horror, Comedy and Action. They were watched mostly at the cinema or on DVD rather than copies or online. We then added to this with different age groups and found the same results. This shows that Horror films can appeal to all audiences. Our film is going to be aimed at 15+ years old. As the film is located at a school the main audience is going to be students and teachers. As the setting is an every day location this will appeal to real Horror fans as it represents real life. The social classes targeted would be B, C1, C2 and D, because it can appeal to any member of society, but people in class A and E might not be as interested as they prefer different things and may not want to, or be able to go to the cinema. The film will interest mainly a male audience as most horrors do. There are no particular religions that would tend to be interested in the film. Plot The film is based at a normal every day school after hours. Everyone has gone except two teachers and a caretaker, so they think. Our 2 minutes will include shooting the two teachers separating before leaving the school. The security guard hears a ‘bang’ so takes his torch to look around the school. He finds the one teacher being feasted upon by some unknown creature as the other teacher watches from the CCTV tapes.
4. Some of the things you expect to see in a horror film are; blood/gore, a mysterious creature, a vulnerable woman, restricted light, high contrast, digetic eerie sounds, non-digetic tension music.. Our horror film includes a lot of these; The teacher left in the building alone is a woman, representing vulnerability We have a mysterious inhuman little girl There will be blood during the flash light scene The flashlight will create restricted light, The contrast between light and dark of the torch and the CCTV screens Digetic and non digetic sounds Mise-en-scene Sound: Digetic (doors creaking, the ‘bang’, footsteps etc) and non digetic (suspense) Lighting: High contrast, restricted (used when caretaker is looking for girl with torch) Props: The torch, school books, CCTV camera Camera shots: CCTV low angle shots from high up to create the effect someone's watching. POV shots from the caretaker walking around school with the torch Editing: Quick movements
5. Narrative. We have Propp’s theory, in the case of our characters having ‘jobs’. The one teacher being a vulnerable woman, the other being her romance and the mysterious inhuman creature being the bad. There will also be cases of binary opposites, ‘good vs. evil’ with the teacher against the possessed girl. Our film also has the enigma of leaving the female teacher alone in the school after the two men die, leaving the audience wanting to know what's going to happen. We need to film in the dark so January after school hours around 6. We are filming in the school, CTTC. We are using the four members of the group as the actors, but wont need all characters at the same time, so can create a log of who filmed at a particular time
