Planning: Location

To fit in with our storyline, we wanted two locations for our film. The first at the characters workplace and the second at the characters home. We needed to find a suitable work and home location for the type of character we wanted to create which was a successful career woman. After considering our options we chose the front office of an independent school which was well presented and an affluent suburban home. Added benefits were that there was enough space in both locations for our film crew to operate comfortably.

Planning: Props

This is a brainstorm of all the props we need in our opening 2 minutes:

Planning: Actors' Hair and Make-up

This is a brainstorm of what we want to do with our actors' hair and make-up:

Planning: Costumes

This is a brainstorm of what we'd like our actors to wear whilst being filmed:

Planning: Characters

This is a brainstorm of of what we would like our idea characters to be like:

Storyboard

The History of Horror

Horror is one of the most popular forms of cinema, which has audiences all over the world today watching. It is also one of the most profitable genres for film studios. Although in the 20^th Century, this was not the case. Over the last one hundred years, horror has moved in and out of the film trend. It is only fairly recently that horror has been recognised as one of the basis’ of conventional cinema.

Gothic literature inspired many novels to be made into movies, such as; A Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights and Dracula.

The first horror films made were silent movies, which laid out codes and conventions of the horror genre, which are still being advocated today. In the 1930’s sound was then added to the movies, which made a huge impact on the films.

Early, well-known horror movies: Nosferatu (1922)

                                                Frankenstein (1931) 

                                                Night of the Living (1968)