Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Horror/Thriller Films

We have been asked to creat the opening 2 minutes of a horror or thriller. we havent yet been put into groups but have been asked to come up with 4 main ideas (I have 5) then chose one to write a treatment on (expand on, including mise-en-scene, camera work, movement and composition)
im a Horror junkie, so when i heard that this was our project i nearly died and instantly came up with hundreds of ideas.
my four favorite were:
1) Zombie movie- group of people running and hiding

2) 1920's gangstar movie - Al \Capone esque men interrogatin man tied to chair in overhead light, gun holsters and shirts with blood spatters. man in chair blood on head.

3)  Old B&B in the middle of nowhere- was once a house where family murdered. young couple stay for a few nights and begin to see gohsts of the family that was murdered there.

4) Crazy doctor in outer suburbs of city.  fired for experimental surgary, now kidnapping and practising on tourists/gap students e.t.c

5) Vintage Dracular movie-girl wakes up in graveyar, no idea how she got there, running from Count \Dracular who wants to make her into his bride.

  My favorite was the Old B&B idea.#

To open I would have a montage of old family photos, all in victorian clothes. there would be a girl and boy of about 6-7 and another boy of about 18. a mother and father. This would last about 15 seconds. for the last 10 seconds i would show 6 or 7 photos of the family in their beds dead, this would be easy to do as all we would need to do as all we need is as a bedo sheet with fake blood on it and lay it over wach 'victim'
The  photos would either be in Sepia or black and white.
This is when i would show the credits.
The next scene would be a modern car driving into the driveway. the light would life at this poin and a your couple would get out. they would go in and a camara would track them in. a woman would see a figure in a window wearing a white dress but not put too much thought to it.
when they go in the male receptionist (a middle ages man) would show them to their room n the way he would explain that they were the only guests.
there would be a tracking shot throught the house when the receptionist shows the couple to their room. the camaa would be about 10 feet away. as the couple go into look at the room we would see the litle girl in the coidor then go into the rom. the nest shot the woman ould be in the room alone and hear childern running in the corridor above. A mans voice wold call her from in the corridor, assumingit was her husbandshe wold look outthe door- emty coidor with bhilds shoe. whe pick it up. then she heas her usbands voici-looks otside the window and ses his outside, having a cigarette on the phone.
then musicould cresendo as the camara closes in ont the door from he outside as isomeone if approahing.
the nxt scene is the loud sound of the woman rnning  abath. the husand is back ingbed with only the womans side lap on and the bathron light on.
there is a over the shoulder front shot of the man so we can see his face but also see whats behind him/ we see a figure in the bed next to him (we assume the wife) a hand comes out and switches off the light. in the Dark the husband says good night then we see someones in the bathroom from the light uner the door. 'good night daddy repies he little girl next to him, the wife is heard screaming from the bathrom, suddenly eything goes black (the end)

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