Storyboard

This is the storyboard which myself and Beth drew and coloured in. This storyboard is going to be the key thing that we follow closely during our film production as it will remind us of what shots we need to do and what mise en scene and characters need to be featured in. Without a storyboard it is easy to get lost which can result in you being behind deadlines or shooting a variety of shots which do not work cohesively together.

Narrative

The narrative of our film features a young girl named Annabelle, aged 15, who lived with her mother, father and younger brother. She loved to write, especially poems. Every day she would write in her diary; a new poem and a chapter about her day concerning her emotions and feelings especially about how she was tormented and labelled about having mental health issues as she would hear voices and see ghosts. She believed that she haunted by a ghost who she named ‘Guinevere’ (around the age of 5, but no one knows) or otherwise known as ‘The ghost that lives at 134 Queens Road’, who manipulated and antagonized her constantly because all she wanted was someone to play with her and love her, like her mother never did. This eventually made Annabelle commit suicide; from a drug overdose, due to the constant hassle of people calling her ‘crazy’ and the continuous terrorizing from Guinevere. All she wanted was to be left alone. Guinevere was finally at peace when Annabelle died, as she finally got the friend she always wanted, now that Annabelle is in a spirit form. Leaving her at 134 Queens Road. When Annabelle died, all she left was her diary, and the mystery of her death unsolved. Until now. 17 years later, a family of four moves into the house that Annabelle committed suicide in. The family consists of single mother thirty six year old ‘Sandra’, her two brothers ‘Anthony’ (11 years old) and ‘Matthew’ (5 years old) and finally are main character ‘Tara’ who is 17 years of age. Tara finds a diary in her room and it happens to be the diary of Annabelle. She tells her mother about the diary and its contents and Sandra insists that she stops reading it and throws it out. Tara disregards what her mother says and still continues to read it and gradually creepy and abnormal things start to happen for example the noise of a young teenage girl crying. Sandra asks around the neighbourhood if anybody has ever heard of anything on the history of the house, one neighbour expresses that they heard of a teenage girl committing suicide, with this information Sandra goes on to the internet to research the house and finds an article on a blog website form ex neighbours about the ghost of Annabelle that they believe exists in 134 Queens Road. Sandra goes through Tara’s room and tries to throw away the diary believing that this would put a stop to all the unusual activity, but it does not. Tara believes that something is watching and haunting her and a series of events occur that makes it apparent that the ghost of Annabelle does actually exist. This results in Tara becoming mad and she leaves her house. To this day she has been missing. Without a signal warning or sign to know where she has gone. Leaving her family to believe that she may be missing forever, and even the possibility of her being dead. Now all they can do is wait for a knock on the door, a phone call, or a spiritual sign, just something that would tell them that she is still with us.

The start of my horror trailer journey



Is Todorov's Theory Demonstrated in Drag me to Hell?

The film trailer starts with calming music to enhance the sense of the equilibrium being in balance. Christine is having a conversation with her boss at work, so they are in a normal setting and the equilibrium is still apparent. An elderly woman called Mrs Gaunush turns up Christine’s workplace asking for an extension on her mortgage payment but is refused as this is not first time. Mrs Gaunush starts to beg and holds on to Christine’s leg. Christine calls for security and Mrs Gaunush falls, this is when the agent of change occurs and after this a series of events start to happen to Christine which pushes her into finding a resolution by seeking help from Rham Jas. Even though not shown in the trailer, the second clip shows the ending. The audience are tricked into feeling that the equilibrium is back in place but it is not as Christine is dragged into hell.

Todorov's Narrative Theory

Which Producer?

Blair Witch Project Parody - A2 Media Prelim

Target Audience Research

This is me and Ellesha Martin’s target audience research which we conducted over a few days, the whole reasoning behind doing this research was to give us a better view on what individuals from our target audience enjoy and dislike about our horror . This research will go on to help us when we start our work on our horror trailer.

Audience Research Survey

Here is a short survey I created on survey monkey which I am going to ask a range of horror films lovers to complete as a part of audience research.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N7FYZXF

Web.2.0 - Audience Theory

Paul Well's Audience Research

Silent Hill Poster Analysis

Scream Poster Analysis

The Purge Poster Analysis

The Eye Poster Analysis