Preperation for our horror teaser

To prepare for our horror trailer my group took part in a lesson to learn about fake blood. The lesson began by watching several horror film sequences where fake blood is used.

We learned:

• How to fake blood

• How to fake sick

• How to hide the impact of punches

• How to fake being shot

• And other ways to make it appear that people have been hurt by weapons.

The main part of this session was however to learn how t create fake blood. Grenadine is syrup that is used in cocktails. This makes a good fake blood as it is has a thick texture and is eatable so it will not be a problem if it is used in someone’s mouth. To create a fake wound a layer of latex is put on the skin to outline the shape of the cut. This dries up and more layers can be added. After this eyeliner or another black substance should be added to the centre of the cut to give it a dirty inner wound feeling. The fake blood is then applied to this.

These two pictures show a finished bullet whole and an arm gash.

Stroryboards

Before filming our horror teaser trailer, we storyboarded it. This allowed us to plan out each shot of the teaser so that we would know what shots were needed when we went to film. This allowed us to pay specific detail on the type of shots used, the type of edits used, the mise-en-scene and other aspects of cinematography.

Our group idea

Ria, a typical teenage girl from the small town of lowestoft, was spending the evening at her boyfriend's house. At about half midnight, Ria decided it was time to leave as they both had to be up early that morning. She said her goodbyes, got in her car, turned her music up and began her 25 minute journey home. She was singing away and tapping her thumbs on the the steering wheel when something in her rear-view mirror caught her eye. Her head sparply turned towards it and she had a closer inspection, nothing was there. She shook it off and carried on driving. Wary of what she saw, she turned down her music. As she drove along the deserted, dark roads, she could feel soft, warm air blowing her hair forward on the right hand side of her face. She frantically checked that all of the windows and doors were fully shut, they were. She couldn't understand where this warm air was coming from, she turned her music off. She began to hear faint sounds of someone breathing near her head. She inhaled deeply through her nose, her eyes widened and she pulled over immediately. She got out of the car straight away without even turning behind her to look in the backseat, she turned off the ignition and slammed the door. She figured if there was something or someone in her car that she would be able to see them through the window, and at least then she would be outside of the car. Her palms sweating, she looked closely through the window, she saw nothing, she opened the boot, she saw nothing. She slammed the boot shut and looked back along the road she had driven down, she put her hands on her hips as she breathed a sigh of relief. Before she knew it, she heard her engine start, she whipped around and watched her car be driven into the woods nearby. In a desperate attempt to get her precious car back and without further thought, she found herself sprinting as fast as she could after her car. The ground was bumpy and uneven and as she tried to keep up with the car she stumbled. She didn't give in, she could hear the sound of her cars engine so she knew it wasn't far away. She thought maybe the driver had freaked out, left the car and ran off, why could she still hear the car? As she got closer the car got louder and she could see the headlights peering through the branches. She finally got to her car and was horrified at what she saw and was possibly about to happen to her.

This idea was based upon the idea written by a group memeber and we have decided to develop it further. The idea developed as we worked on it as a group. The develops included that a killer has some kind of obsession with models. This turns to him abducting, torturing and killing them. The need to kills models is likely due to some repressed sexual memories, with models displaying a sex symbol. The protagonist is driving their car when they are abducted by the killer. While in the woods she finds several of her friends tied up and some dead. She tries to escape the killer who chases her through the woods with an axe. The killer has several modelling pictures of them and is seen touching them inappropriately and invading their personal space.

My horror movie idea

The films begins with Fern and Scott in the car on the way to their new house/manshion that they have just purchased. They go down several backroads with nothing around. Fern expresses her hantred for the house saying that it is too out of the way and in the midlle of nowhere. They finally arrive at the house and unpack their items. They walk into the house and Fern comments on how cold it is.

The first night there Fern wakes up in the middle of the night thinking that she heard something. She looks around the house but eventually goes back to bed. She tells Scott what she heard the next day although he thinks she is just imagining things.

Fern enters her kitchen one day and while making something to eat she looks in a mirror and thinks that she someone. She puts it to the back of her mind trying to ignore it. That night severl noices in the kitchen make Scott go downstairs to check thing out. Fern hars screaming and runs down. She finds a trail of blood leading around the house eading to his body, a message on the wall reads "time to die". Fern runs to the kitchen in panic and grabs a knfe. She then hears someone comming towards her and runs out of the house, along the small roads. She desperatly looks for a phone but in unable to find one.

Stuck in the middle of nowhere she decides to sneak back into her house and call for help.  Once inside the phone lines have been cut and she cannot open any doors. She smashes a widow but they killer grabs her by her foot. She manages to use the knife to get rid of him and run upstairs. The killer follows and she throws things at him. She locks herself in her beadroom and uses the balcony to get into a different room once he starts to break the door down with an axe.

The final showdown happens when she is trapped into a room with him and she appears to kill him. Another character who has history with the killer comes to the house and explains how the killers family were murdered in the hause when he was a child and now he kills anyone who moves there.

The final shot of the film is when it is shown that the killers body is no longer on the floor.

Mood Board

This is a mood board comprising of many of my favourite aspects of horror films. The backround is a dark forest, a conventional setting for horror. I chose to put this on my mood board as this is a setting that is easily accesable to my group for a filming location.

A haunted house is also present on the mood board. A creepy looking building is regulary used in horror. This is because the mysterious aspect that anything could happen there.

The rest of the mood board is made up of final girls and killer. These are typical of the "slasher" sub-genre.