Initial ideas

Five friends help each other to set up tents and build a fire why discussing the oncoming night. Boy reads newspaper article about killer on the loose, he doesn’t tell his friends and then one friend is killed why collecting fire wood. They find a blood trail and one of the freinds tells the rest of the group what what he has read in the newspaper article. As night falls the group becomes lost as they go deeper into the woods and their phones lose signal.

Two friends go to the shops and buy some treats for the campout they are about to have, when one of the friends reads a newspaper article about a killer on the loose he decides to tell his mate all about it. They then buy there things and make there way back to his friends house where they tell the news to there other friends, they ignore the warning and decide to go on the campout anyway, unaware of the unfortunate night they are about to face.

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Campout

A group of five teenagers go out for a campout in some secluded woods unaware of a serial killer on the loose who escaped from a local mental home. One by one the unfortunate teenagers find themselves fighting for there lives.

After ignoring advice from a very suspicious man, late found hanging from a tree. The teens decide to defend themselves and set out to try and stop the killer. But they fail. The killer continues to hunt the teens until only one is left who manages to escape.

Conventions in a horror film

Film title: scream

Secluded location - first victim on her own – 2:42

Killer wears a mask – first time killer is seen – 9:53

Excessive gore – woman stabbed and hung in tree – 12:17

Fake scare – girl is scarred from noise coming from window and investigates to find out it is her boyfriend – 12:48

Victim locks self in with killer – victim on the phone to killer checks front door then runs back inside and locks her self in the house with the killer – 50:55

Secluded location – house party in the middle of no were – 58:52

Fake scare – cat jumps out and scare girl – 1:00:25

Power is cut – girl in garage and lights go out – 1:02:44

Excessive gore – girl is trapped in garage door and gets strangled – 1:04:43

Excessive gore – girl’s boyfriend is repeatedly stabbed in bedroom – 1:17:25

Excessive gore – reporter’s throat gets cut and blood goes everywhere – 1:20:15

Car won’t start – killer is out side the car and it won’t start leaving victim helpless – 1:24:16

Killer won’t stay dead – repeatedly stabbed with a knife and an umbrella the killer won’t die until he has been shot twice – 1:37:35

Pre-Production

An Idea

Obtaining the rights to use the source

Author gets money to guarantee contract

A professional screen writer is needed

A director, casting director, cinematographer, assistant producers, editor and musical director

All these people bring there own personal crews

Casting director chooses actors appropriately and arranges auditions

Chose location to shoot

Food and housing for actors

Transport for the crew

Streets/shops shut down for filming

Post-production

Footage edited

Musical score created- copy right or original

Special effects added

Dialogue recorded

Sound effects added

Film promoted

Film released

The History of Horror Films

The History of Horror Films

Early horror films were made in the late 1800’s and largely based on classic literature of the gothic/horror genre, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. So the Horror genre is almost as old as film itself. The first horror film was made by a man called Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the most notable being The House of the Devil which wasn’t at first supposed to be a horror it was in fact made to be a comedy. The House of the Devil was made in France and was released on Christmas Eve In 1896 which ran for only 2 minutes. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first film version of Frankenstein. It wasn’t till the late 1930’s when American film studios created the first modern horror genre. Some of the films that were made during the 1930’s were Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy. In the 1950’s horror changed from gothic, to a new type of horror featuring; alien invasion and deadly mutation to people, insects, and plants. A Famous actor called Boris Karloff started to build a carrier around this genre. In the late 1970s horror went downhill as disaster movies like The Towering Inferno and jaws became more popular. But in 1978 John Carpenter’s Halloween became a good popular success and the teens-threatened-by-superhuman-evil theme carried on in the 1980s was Friday the 13^th and Nightmare on Elm Street was first made. In the early 2000s a mixture of horror films were made like Final destination, The Ring and the Descent.

Bride of Frankenstein - 1935

Bride of Frankenstein 1935

Director – jams whale

Stars

Boris Karloff – the monster

Colin Clive - Baron Henry von Frankenstein

Valerie Hobson –Elizabeth von Frankenstein

Ernest Thesiger – Dr. Pretorius

Summary

Dr. Frankenstein and his mother both show up alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiments business, but a mad scientist named Dr. Pretorius kidnaps his wife. Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help create a new creature for his wife back.