My Horror Film Idea

Horror Idea

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What Is A Horror Film?

Personal

The audience’s own connection with the fears or terrors of the story.

Fear of things other than human, (monsters) in the darkness.

Fear of the body being disfigured or harmed.

Fear of our personal boundaries and lines being invaded and too close.

Watching terror from a safe distance.

Ideological

Has hidden or obvious messages rooted within the story.
The themes include punishment, rejection and repulsion of subjects which deviate from ‘right’ thinking.

From simplistic or basic messages, i.e. the innocent virgin girl survives at the end, rather than her naughty slutty friend, to the more nuanced or subtle fears of strangers/hitchhikers breaking our boundaries. Or the condemnation of any deviant religions.
Our perception that the power of science can defeat the darkness at the expense of older beliefs in religion and superstition.

So, In our modern understanding of fear we rationalise the supernatural and defeat it with the psychology rather than Latin chants.
Modern media creates ‘demons; by crusading against sections of society and labelling them.
Are there really so many more paedophiles today than in the past?
How many escaped mental patients have actually stalked and killed innocent people.

Industrial and financial

Perhaps the most lucrative genre in the film industry, horror draws in huge audiences justifying the continual re-invention, re-making and franchising of every successful horror product.
We wonder at whether there should be an ‘Indiana Jones 4’ or a ‘Lethal Weapon 5’. But no question is raised over the production of ‘Saw 6’ or re making ‘A nightmare on Elm street’ after 9 previous incarnations.

Introduction to stills camera.

We had an introduction lesson on still cameras. In this lesson we learnt the basics and the rules of composition about taking pictures. We were taught that we should imagine that when we are taking the picture, that it has a frame. Inside that frame is the rule of thirds, which is the frame split into nine boxes. These boxes have ‘Hot Spots’. The picture to the right is an example of the 'Rule of Thirds' with the 'Hot Spots'. The rule of the Hot Spots is that they lead your eyes to what you want them to see first and last. For example, the top left red dot is the 1st hot spot, the next top right dot is the 2nd hot spot. The bottom left one is 3rd and the bottom right one is 4th. So in this picture, the Sheep's head is most important because it is in the 1st hot spot.

After we learnt the basics and rules of picture taking, we were sent out to take our own pictures taking in what we had just learnt.

To the left is a picture I took when we were sent out. Using the Hot spots, you can tell the car is the most important thing in the picture and Katrina on the floor is the 2nd most important thing in the picture.