Thursday, 31 January 2013
Friday, 25 January 2013
Main Task: Action Plan
Here is the action plan for TwinPine films up to the final piece for our main task. The week commencing 28th January we plan to finish the storyboard and shot list, completing the process of planning therefore we will be ready to commence filming the week commencing 4th February. After Half Term on the week commencing from the 18th February we as a group will converse about what draft of the edited piece we will move forward with as each group member will edit the piece their way and as a group we will choose the best to edit further as a team, adding sounds. On the week commencing 25th February we will be editing the chosen piece and polish it by adding a soundtrack.
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Main Task Research: The importance of sound in Horror films
Sound in horror movies is very important to build up tension and create an eerie threatening atmosphere that gets the audience on the edge of their seats. Sound is important at all times in a horror movie whether it is during the introduction, halfway through the film or at the ending. Sound determines the success and failure of creating a scary tense atmosphere, for example a song like this would never make it into a horror movie.
The main types of music associated with horror movies are original scores for the film (e.g Halloween opening theme song) or heavy metal music (e.g The Freddy vs Jason soundtrack). Sound used to create the appropriate atmosphere includes a slow tempo that gradually gets faster as seen in Jaws. Music like that gets the audience's adrenaline pumping through their system therefore they feel either anxious or exhilirated which is the mood that the director wants the audience to feel. The deep bass rumble that is cliche for tension building moments in horror movies always gets the audience on the edge of their seat in anticipation of something about to happen whether it be a killer or just a fake scare. Horror movies are also praised for their chilling emphasis on sound.
The genre of music most likely to be utilised in a horror movie is Metal e.g Slipknot. The reason for this is that heavy metal and rock is associated with violence and death as people's perception of metal bands and fans are that they are really dark, psychotic, strange and violent and horror is what they associate with this sort of music. Examples of metal used in horror can be seen in the adaptation of Anne Rice's novel 'Queen of the Damned (2002)' in which bands such as Disturbed and Static X are used for the soundtrack with the songs 'Down with the sickness' and 'Cold'. A heavy metal soundtrack is also used in Resident Evil (2002) with Slipknot and Marilyn Manson the two main acts behind the soundtrack with Slipknot providing a new mix of "My Plague". Horrors grew out of the original score trend and entered into using music already recorded as seen in Freddy vs Jason (2003) (A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th along with Halloween were quite famous for their original music). Here is the opening song to Freddy vs Jason.
The main types of music associated with horror movies are original scores for the film (e.g Halloween opening theme song) or heavy metal music (e.g The Freddy vs Jason soundtrack). Sound used to create the appropriate atmosphere includes a slow tempo that gradually gets faster as seen in Jaws. Music like that gets the audience's adrenaline pumping through their system therefore they feel either anxious or exhilirated which is the mood that the director wants the audience to feel. The deep bass rumble that is cliche for tension building moments in horror movies always gets the audience on the edge of their seat in anticipation of something about to happen whether it be a killer or just a fake scare. Horror movies are also praised for their chilling emphasis on sound.
The genre of music most likely to be utilised in a horror movie is Metal e.g Slipknot. The reason for this is that heavy metal and rock is associated with violence and death as people's perception of metal bands and fans are that they are really dark, psychotic, strange and violent and horror is what they associate with this sort of music. Examples of metal used in horror can be seen in the adaptation of Anne Rice's novel 'Queen of the Damned (2002)' in which bands such as Disturbed and Static X are used for the soundtrack with the songs 'Down with the sickness' and 'Cold'. A heavy metal soundtrack is also used in Resident Evil (2002) with Slipknot and Marilyn Manson the two main acts behind the soundtrack with Slipknot providing a new mix of "My Plague". Horrors grew out of the original score trend and entered into using music already recorded as seen in Freddy vs Jason (2003) (A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th along with Halloween were quite famous for their original music). Here is the opening song to Freddy vs Jason.
Main Task Planning: Location
For "Murder Studies" here are the locations in which we will be filming for the opening 2 minutes.
Media studies iMac room for classroom scene
School Corridor for the chase scene
Media studies iMac room for classroom scene
School staircase for chase scene
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Main Task planning: Screenplay
Screenplay for “Murder Studies”
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