Showing posts with label psychological horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychological horror. Show all posts

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Target Audience

As our opening sequence is a psychological horror we did a tally chart of the age groups that like watching psychological horrors and we found out that people between the ages of 15-25 most enjoy psychological horrors/thrillers.
This chart shows how many people out of 80 between those ages enjoy watching psychological horrors rather than any other genre.
As it shows on the chart people between the ages of 15-25 enjoy watching psychological horrors the most so we decided that this will be our target audience, as it is a very popular genre between those ages.

Psychological Horror Prezi

Update

In today's lesson we finished our opening sequence! It is now uploaded on youtube with all the sound effects and credits we were trying to fix.


Costumes - Main Character

In our opening sequence we decided to dress our main character in a regular and comfortable outfit, that a teenage would wear on a daily basis, so it is not a stereotypical girly outfit nor is it a boyish outfit. The reason behind is is because we want to portray that this sequence happened on a regular day in the life of a teenager and it is nothing too tacky or overwhelming. She is wearing a simple top, jeans and a backpack. 


Sunday, 22 March 2015

"You Shouldn't Have Done That"

Our group got inspired by the creepypasta "Ben Drowned" which is a story about a boy named Ben who had a cursed copy of the game: Legend of Zelda. The quotes that we want to use in our opening sequence were "You Shouldn't Have Done That"



Click here to watch the creepypasta "Ben Drowned"

In our opening sequence the screen automatically turns back on in the static room with the words "You Shouldn't Have Done That" after she turns it off.


Representation on Locations

We decided to shoot our film in a school. By basing the storyline on a horror event in a school it adds tension as a school is meant to be a safe place of education and peace, but it works as a paradox as the main character is being followed and killed in the safe place so it creates a sense of irony in the sequence.

We got inspired by the Horror films "The Expelled" and "Summer School", which are also filmed in a school setting and are again set at night.



As the scenes that we are filming are meant to happen after the school has been shut, we filmed it around 5-6 o'clock, so the scenes look realistic and dark. 

Update (Sound) 20/03/2015

Today my media group and I arranged the sound effects and the music in the places that we needed it. We added diegetic and non- diegetic sounds to it. The diegetic sounds were the TV static that we added when the computer screen turns back on and says "YOU SHOUDN'T HAVE DONE THAT" with an appropriate creepy font. This creates a creepy and robotic effect to the sequence as if the character that wants to kill her is inside the computer and makes it obvious that he is controlling the computer. It also makes the sequence look professional.

We also decided to make the atmosphere more intense by adding the sound of a heartbeat. The sound of a heartbeat racing is often heard when a person is scared and the fact that it is dead silent in the room and we can hear it intensifies the setting and adds to the suspense, because the audience feels like they are the character as they can hear the heartbeat so clearly.

We added non-diegetic music in the background. The violins also add to the suspense and the feeling of fear that the character might be experiencing at that moment. We also removed the violins for the last part of the sequence as silence is the most important sound that can be used for a psychological horror because the audience feel like they are alone in that room and expect something bad to happen and by adding silence it feels like the moment is longer than it actually is so it adds to the anticipation. 

Prezi on Gender Representation In Psychological Horrors

Sunday, 1 February 2015

Film Title

We wanted the title to be simple but effective as the opening sequence begins. We put it on a black screen with a simple white font, as the "O" from "Locked" had a keyhole, so it looks professional. We also made it zoom into the screen as it comes on like it is coming towards this audience. This creates the effect as if the text is dangerous and intimidating just like the creepy character from the psychological horror sequence we made.


Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Psychological Horror

Psychological Horror is a subgenre of horror. Psychological Horror doesn't make the audience feel scared with jump scares or monsters or supernatural beings. It makes them feel scared by using their deepest emotions, fears and feelings of paranoia, suspicion, distrust, self-doubt. Elements of a psychological horror focus on the mental state of the audience.In Psychological Horrors there are often plot twists