Wednesday, 16 February 2011
filming is finished
Finally we have finished our filming and have started to upload it. Soon we will continue editing including adding in voices overs etc.
Friday, 11 February 2011
Filming
The last filming dates will be 15th Febuary at 1:05-2:10pm with Tara and Sorcha and at 5-6:30pm with Beth and Radz.
Here is the guideline to the weather;
Here is the guideline to the weather;
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Task 7: Sub-genres in horror
Extreme:
It's, well, extreme. It goes straight to the blood-and-guts and aims for the gross-out without hesitation. In guidelines you might find terms like "splat," "splatter," or "splatterpunk" and "gore," "grue," and "gross." (Most GLs tell you to AVOID these things.) Splatterpunk, by the way, was just a label made up to describe the "young Turks" bringing a more visceral, gritty edge to horror 10-15 years ago.
Noir:
Usually set in an urban underworld of crime and moral ambiguity. Dark, cynical, paranoid themes of corruption, alienation, lust, obsession, violence, revenge and the difficulty of finding redemption in a far from perfect world. An oppressive atmosphere of menace, pessimism, anxiety, suspicion, and dingy realism. You'll also find the term in combinations like neo-noir, future noir or noir sf, tech-noir.
Psychological Horror:
Based on the disturbed human psyche. Obviously psychos on rampages fall into this category, but it is just as often more subtle. Since the reader's perception is sometimes altered by exposure to an insane viewpoint, psychological horror can also deal with ambiguous reality and seem to be supernatural.
Supernatural:
The rules of the normal world don't apply; ghosts, demons, vampires, werewolves, the occult etc. Within this sub genre is an ever-growing list of sub-sub-genres -- most of which deal with vampires.
Surreal:
Not really sub-generic, it can be used just to mean unreal; strange or bizarre. Or it can be used to tie a style to the surrealist movement in art and literature that attempted to express the subconscious and move beyond accepted conventions of reality by representing the irrational imagery of dreams and bizarre juxtapositions.
Suspense (or Dark Suspense) and Thriller:
No supernatural elements, but a constant sense of threat coming from an outside menace. Add a strong investigative angle and becomes mystery more than horror. Add action and adventure to suspense and you come up with "thriller" -- except you can have "supernatural thrillers."
www.fictionfactor.com/articles/hsubgenres.html
It's, well, extreme. It goes straight to the blood-and-guts and aims for the gross-out without hesitation. In guidelines you might find terms like "splat," "splatter," or "splatterpunk" and "gore," "grue," and "gross." (Most GLs tell you to AVOID these things.) Splatterpunk, by the way, was just a label made up to describe the "young Turks" bringing a more visceral, gritty edge to horror 10-15 years ago.
Noir:
Usually set in an urban underworld of crime and moral ambiguity. Dark, cynical, paranoid themes of corruption, alienation, lust, obsession, violence, revenge and the difficulty of finding redemption in a far from perfect world. An oppressive atmosphere of menace, pessimism, anxiety, suspicion, and dingy realism. You'll also find the term in combinations like neo-noir, future noir or noir sf, tech-noir.
Psychological Horror:
Based on the disturbed human psyche. Obviously psychos on rampages fall into this category, but it is just as often more subtle. Since the reader's perception is sometimes altered by exposure to an insane viewpoint, psychological horror can also deal with ambiguous reality and seem to be supernatural.
Supernatural:
The rules of the normal world don't apply; ghosts, demons, vampires, werewolves, the occult etc. Within this sub genre is an ever-growing list of sub-sub-genres -- most of which deal with vampires.
Surreal:
Not really sub-generic, it can be used just to mean unreal; strange or bizarre. Or it can be used to tie a style to the surrealist movement in art and literature that attempted to express the subconscious and move beyond accepted conventions of reality by representing the irrational imagery of dreams and bizarre juxtapositions.
Suspense (or Dark Suspense) and Thriller:
No supernatural elements, but a constant sense of threat coming from an outside menace. Add a strong investigative angle and becomes mystery more than horror. Add action and adventure to suspense and you come up with "thriller" -- except you can have "supernatural thrillers."
www.fictionfactor.com/articles/hsubgenres.html
Task 6 AUDIENCE EXPECTATIONS
What do you expect?
Holly- jumpy scenes and scary music
Beth – to get an adrenalin rush
Lizzie- jumpiness
Shereen- scary thrills
Helen- to be hiding behind the sofa
Do you find them scary?
Holly- yeah my heart races
Beth – I prefer to find them tense
Lizzie- yeah
Shereen- yes I find them jumpy
Helen- yes but still love watching them
What sort of characters would you expect in a horror?
Holly- Innocent victim and a murderer
Beth – Normal characters with something that goes wrong, e.g.: Murderer targets them.
Lizzie- creepy men
Shereen- fast zoomed shots of characters
Helen- young female victim and creepy male villains
What age group is a horror normally targeted at?
Holly- teenagers
Beth – teenagers and young adults.
Lizzie- young adults and teenagers.
Shereen- 15+
Helen- teenagers 13+
What sort of story line do you expect?
Holly- everything is fine until something happens and everyone’s scared.
Beth – I love twists, especially when you really don’t expect them.
Lizzie- Realistic and then something going wrong and not very realistic
Shereen- mysterious but sympathy for the main character
Helen- lots of unexpected twists and mystery
What atmosphere?
Holly- tension
Beth – Tense, nervous, exciting etc.
Lizzie- tense
Shereen- dark, gloomy and intense
Helen- very tense, scary and uncanny
Holly- jumpy scenes and scary music
Beth – to get an adrenalin rush
Lizzie- jumpiness
Shereen- scary thrills
Helen- to be hiding behind the sofa
Do you find them scary?
Holly- yeah my heart races
Beth – I prefer to find them tense
Lizzie- yeah
Shereen- yes I find them jumpy
Helen- yes but still love watching them
What sort of characters would you expect in a horror?
Holly- Innocent victim and a murderer
Beth – Normal characters with something that goes wrong, e.g.: Murderer targets them.
Lizzie- creepy men
Shereen- fast zoomed shots of characters
Helen- young female victim and creepy male villains
What age group is a horror normally targeted at?
Holly- teenagers
Beth – teenagers and young adults.
Lizzie- young adults and teenagers.
Shereen- 15+
Helen- teenagers 13+
What sort of story line do you expect?
Holly- everything is fine until something happens and everyone’s scared.
Beth – I love twists, especially when you really don’t expect them.
Lizzie- Realistic and then something going wrong and not very realistic
Shereen- mysterious but sympathy for the main character
Helen- lots of unexpected twists and mystery
What atmosphere?
Holly- tension
Beth – Tense, nervous, exciting etc.
Lizzie- tense
Shereen- dark, gloomy and intense
Helen- very tense, scary and uncanny
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
TASK 4: A collage of the horror genre
I have created a collage of thrillers and horror films, some that I have seen and others I plan to watch.
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