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Final Poster for Social Killer (No Longer Final)

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Scenrios for Social Killer

Death chainmail has been round since mail has been sent to mailboxes, unresolved murderers happening around the world everyday with no evidence or cause... Technology advanced, people were able to communicate over the World Wide Web in 1950’s and ever since our technology advanced allowing us to socialise, nearly every household owns a computer, but ever since technology has advanced so has death chainmail, from letters it moved to emails and then onto IM’s, but now onto socialising websites and thousands disappear with no cause or evidence and is put into a top classified folder. However a child of the dad in the M16 gets their hands on the folder and turns into child’s play.

School Student speaking from America

‘September 11, 2011 a bad day for Americans as terrorist attack the twin towers leading in many deaths and injury’s, but ever since that day death chainmail has appear out of nowhere causing mystery deaths World Wide by Internet, some say it’s just a hoax, others say it’s to scare others for the fun of it, but only I know it’s the people who died in 9/11 creating these death chainmail’s I have researched the IP address and it is coming from that exact location but there are no networks there, how is this possible, why are they doing this, I will find out myself and end this mass murdering chainmail.’

 Character speaking

It was only a joke, someone I knew from another school sent me it everyone in school read the message after I sent it to five people, and them five sent it to twenty five until everyone had read this message, there are 568 students, 565 have forwarded this message to other schools, leaving three students to face their most feared, death. But can they escape death?

Most popular to our media focus group was the second idea about the 9/11 incidient and then death chain mails happening, so I would guess our group would go with that idea being the most popular choice, the scenario may be changed throughout our project to our liking and to make it more interesting for our audience.

What monster does our trailer feature - More to add onto this post

Speaking about our scenarios to the focus group the second idea about the 9/11 incident relating to death chain mails seemed to be at their best interest for a background story, so deciding on going with that idea hopefully unless changes our made the most related monster would be spirits would be the greatest monster to go with, so the deaths of 9/11 would of unleashed spirits in that area where they died and so somehow sending off death chain mails in order to kill others but no one knows for what purpose.

Spirits are a presence you feel, there are many types of them but ours will be dangerous and haunting spirits possibly even a ghoul which is a spirit but craves for human flesh and is classified with the undead a ghoul which does relate to our scenario, or a spirit intending to cause harm is a cacodemon with is assumed to be a demon in modern terms but is still a spirit, but at the moment it's a just a spirit that kills maybe we could even possibly come up with a new spirit?

Now abandoning the 9/11 idea because it isn't a selling movie, were still sticking to spirits but now we have had to come a new scenario, it will still be the same plot as our 9/11 idea but changing the event to something made up so we can make this event and location spooky to our liking and have some sort of story to this place, still including all the IP Address and death chain mails somehow coming from there.

Sub Genres of Horror

Since horror was created many different branches to horror expanded, like The Birds made nature out of control sub genre, and so since horror was made many others have joined the sub-genres of horror.

Torture Horror (Last House on the Left)
Sci-fi/Monsters (Aliens, Predator)
Vampire Horror (Interview with a Vampire, Dracula)
Slasher Horror (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
Comedy Horror (Scary Movie, Shawn Of The Dead)
Supernatural Horror (The Ring, The Exorcist)
Cannibal/Zombie Horror (28 Days Later)
Werewolf Horror (American Werewolf in London)
Drama Horror (Psycho, Se7en)
Anthology Films (I Am Legend, Dawn Of The Dead)

There are many more of sub-genres related to horror there will properly always be new ones added onto the list in future and some are more favorites then others, sub-genres are there to describe what type of horror the horror film is.

The Ring Poster Analysed

The Ring poster analysed, straight away you look at this poster and there isn't much to tell from imagery expect for a black background representation darkness trying to give the impression of a horror genre, and the white ring including the words 'Before you die, you see' already telling us the technique used to kill people is when they see the ring but the mystery still remains, how does it kill? what kills people? Questions that the audience must find out in watching the movie itself, and also the comma between the sentence is that to emphasise on the scary effect or to take a breath before reading 'you see' it's kind of like taking your last breath when being frightened, the way it's laid out to me gives the impression that you will die if you see the ring firstly the audience reads top to bottom reading the 'Before you die you see' and then looking at the image of the ring and then nothing visually expect for information I don't know if they done that on purpose but seems like a great idea to put across the seeing the ring will kill you, the ring is quite blurry and has white lines going across it (I'm trying to look at it like I have never seen this movie) it does seem to add that bit more scary effect it seems like a ghostly white ring to me, notice the writing of the ring there's no capitals for the first word or second and it looks handwritten is that a clue to the mystery? The age of the person or a uneducated person or even both? And again the font looks ghostly something will a non-human presence it seems, this poster raises a load of questions that much be answered viewing the film that's the way the ring attracts their audience by making it a mystery to the audience.

The Horror Timeline

The Horror Timeline contains many great horror events such as Frankenstein which was written in 1818 by Mary Shelley, obviously a horror classic! And Dracula written in 1897 by Bram Stoker, two horror classics which were made in to films and made horror history, And America in the late 1910's made cinemas after the First World War profits from selling ammunition and etc and then the horror movie timeline began.

1920's - Nothing spectacular appeared for the horror genre expect for the first ever vampire film Nosferatu which was very similar to Dracula who could blame them for trying to copy the Dracula story.

1930's - Horror started.. 80 million went to the cinema on a weekly basis that was 65% of the US population, in 1931 Dracula was made, King Kong in 1933 and then the Bride of Frankenstein in 1935 horror finally appeared to show it's true colours.

1940's - Horror fell, it was only a America genre trying to expand but refused by others it wasn't horrors year or 10 years, The Wolf Man made in 1941 and a year later Cat Woman appeared to make a profit of $4m, the genre of horror needed a boost.

1950's - Again, Horror struggled to come on top but down on bottom the WW2 has ended and Horror advancing to make coloured films, Godzilla a horror classic made in 1954, I Was A Teenage Frankenstein made in 1957 I would expect Hammer studio made (sequel) and The Tingler in 1959.

1960's - Horror experimenting to create gold, Horror seems back on track and is making a hit straight away to the early 1960's, Psycho made in 1960, The Birds was made in 1963 (Nature gone out of control), Blood Feast, horror looks horrific once again.

1970's - Horror on top form as horror got horrific! In 1973 the scariest movie voted The Exorcist the true definition of the horror genre, Jaws made in 1975 (Nature out of control expanding from The Birds), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre made in 1974 and then in 1978 Halloween was created a great 10 years for Horror.

1980's - Technology has finally become advanced enough to show the Horror lovers what they want, The American Werewolf in London made in 1981, A Nightmare on Elm St created in 1984 a great horror classic and Fright Night made in 1985, the horror genre is now a popular genre for movies.

1990's - Being scared turnt in to gory bloody mess (All Final Destination's & SAW) a good example but 1990's was a different time for Horror, Jacob's Ladder made in 1990, Se7en created in 1995 and then Scream made in 1996 another horror classic in our day and age.

2000's - At the beginning of 2000 Horror was hard to sell because of 9/11 no one was interested in the horror genre at this time but wasn't long before this popular genre repopulated with interest from it's horror lovers, Final Destination created in 2000 and 5 sequels later made in 11 years time, 28 Days Later created in 2002 and The Grudge in 2004, Horror is a fantiasque (Quote from the French in 1950's) genre but for the future will it keep raising or will it run out of ideas and drop?

For me personally, It sounds that 1970's was the time to be alive to watch all it's horrors or even in the 1930's where people have never witnessed horror movies and experienced this new fright they dont have in reality, and my guess for the badest time for Horror was in the 1950's.

I think the new version of the trailer is better but the orginal will do, voted the scariest horror, enjoy.

The Cinema Book 2nd Edition - Horror

Horror now days are made everywhere and attracts a big audience to it's genre, but back in 1935 to the late 1940s horror films were banned because of reports of  harmful social effects to people especially on children (no age rating) also was not worthy of even speaking about horror in a conversation, and then in 1950's Hammer studio started creating horror films and the panics once again started. Hammer studio created films like Dracula and Frankenstein but then began to get dull after making a sequel of the same idea, but then problems rose again for horror in the 1970's & 1980's after women protested about violence being used against women in these horrors on a regular basis also these films made women weak and only saw them as sex objects so unfairly treating women.

Their is theories about why do people pay to watch a horror film, I believe people watch horrors to experience being frightened by a horror because they do not poesies this kind of fright in reality and so they watch these horrors for the pleasure of being scared, for example a TV show called Doctor Who he travels in a time machine and defeats these monsters giving him the pleasure of being scared by monsters (especially weeping angels who are undefeated so far)

The other theories such as Freudian, Jungian and  Anthrtopologicalgo on to take societys fears (in the picture these unconscious ideas) and etc, and takes it into a horror film to show the audience the unnatural urges placed into a film for their own pleasure.



<-- This map from the Freudian theory shows the unconscious level and what features in horrors from the unconscious level.




Horror has come a far way from being a problem because of harmful social effects and sequels made by Hammer studios, Physho came out to make the first 'horror of personality' where the main person is the victim and also the murderer, and then Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & film noir helped contribute to 'horror of Armageddon'  and then The Birds making 'normal aspects of nature that turns abnormal' and finally 'the horror of demonic' these were all sub-genres that Charles Derry categorised.

Genre?

What is Genre? Well genre is a term to determine a film’s category and we identify the genre of a film by maybe where it’s set, props or even actors, but some films can relate to two genres for example horror and thriller or romantic comedy, they add in certain thing’s that relate to these genres but different genres have meaning like horror takes you away from reality whilst thriller keeps you in reality.

But genre can also be identified outside of films like TV Programmes and magazines, for example, The Big Bang Theory is classed as Comedy giving it a genre category and a magazine can be about romance making it a romantic magazine, with a genre we will know what is expected in that genre like horror we want to see monsters or in comedy we want to laugh. Everything that is media related pretty much has a genre to it, having a genre is important because it gives a pattern and has a established audience who are interested in that certain genre and also gives what category the media product is.

For me genre is what type of film the film is and I would expect certain thing's within that film that contains a certain genre.

Horror Posters

                  Dawn of the Dead

                                                                                  As you can see there is a blurry horde of zombies walking toward us with the quote 'When there's no more room in Hell, The dead will walk the earth', the colours are quite unique in how they used them I found it quite interesting, the colours are red, orange and yellow and as you can see its sunset in the background and bloody marks on the bottom corners I think the message they've brought to us is its the end of light and darkness has arrived, darkness representing the zombies, and also the blurry vision of the zombies does that maybe represent you wont see them coming also their feet are unnoticeable I think that means you wont hear them either so as from this poster it tells the film will have jumpy scenes with unexpected frights to scare the audience.

    A Nightmare on Elm Street

A classic remade in 2010, A man standing behind a girl who appears to be sunken into the floor, the claw has been focused on to appear on the poster with light reflecting of it to bring attention to his weapon to show his killer, the title Nightmare on Elm Street and the message 'He knows where you sleep' obviously links together to show his power is to enter dreams and turn them into nightmares and because of the claw showing his a killer maybe he can kill people in their dreams, even in the most safest place is exposed to danger taking horror to a new level! Look at how both characters are positioned, the man is behind the girl showing the element of surprise so again like Dawn of the dead it has unexpected scenes looking to frighten the audience and the colour red is used a lot by the looks of it in horror posters to symbolise blood both posters have red in them to show their is deaths in the films, also very importantly the lighted door is behind the man I think this film is about confronting your nightmare in order to get past it to exit your nightmare in order to overcome it.



                                                                                                   Dracula

An old classic Dracula, featuring a stereotypical vampire with his hair gelled back and combed thick eyebrows and big pointy fangs, one main thing you can see is blood dripping down and like all the other posters I have looked at it contains red the colour of blood, this was made in 1943 this explains the amount of writing and also a innocent female who is the victim of Dracula and also explains the black and white colour scheme but they made sure the colour of blood was noticed on the poster to show the horror lovers they will get their blood that they want, theres not much to say about this poster you can obviously tell Dracula a vampire goes around sucking blood out of female victims (because they were seen as weak in 1940's) and eventually he is stopped by a traditional wooden pointy object or gets away with it, but maybe just like the other posters the element of surprise is also in this film notice the female her human instincts to go into defence mode because she has been surprised by Dracula.

All three posters share the colour red which represents the colour of blood this is a very old way of showing it is a horror just like you see in Dracula which was made in 1943 all the way to 2010 in Nightmare on Elm Street and also the element of surprise looks like a old technique used in almost all horrors to scare the audience to give them that pleasure of being scared it's one of the main things horror lovers go to view these horrors to experience that fright, and lastly every poster has a monster or murderer if it didn't it would not be called a horror!

My own research of Horror

After our class discussion the class settled for horror to be the genre for our movie trailer, so with horror being the genre we'll be aiming for in our trailer I thought I would do gather some ideas from a couple of horror trailers that could feature in our trailer, YouTube will be my main source I will get my ideas from.

Firstly when the trailer is played normally a trailer like this appears it's a message like this I got from Paranormal Activity 2, I think starting of with a warning message like this one would be professional to start our trailer of and would give an scary effect before it's even started to say something like 'Not appropriate for the/younger audience...' etc, so giving the audience that warning to be aware of what is to come, and also straight away giving a idea of what genre is to come in this trailer which were trying to make is a horror. My thought of a trailer I would like to appear in our one is a black background in white letters giving it more of a horror genre, and to be a quick sentence like the one used above in that format as well.

The trailer Psych 9 shows a good amount of ideas that I would like to use as much of in our horror trailer, in this trailer and also the trailer we viewed in Media class 'Cardiac Attack' filmed by another Media group, the flicking light at the begin is a brilliant idea to start of an horror trailer, rising the tension already at the beginning and getting the viewers attention immediately and also combined with a person running at the beginning it's trying hard to get our attention and for us to watch to see why she is running, another part I found quite interesting is the black and white effect when a security camera is filming and a face quickly appears to make the viewer jump this is a classic horror tactic in order to scare the audience, but with that in mind I don't want it to be a classic but also expand on the idea to make a newer idea (show postmodernism) maybe the security camera waits and waits to build tension and nothing appears but then something jumps out from the window behind the television the security camera is connected to.

The tempo matters a lot to me, shown in the Psych 9 trailer it goes quicker that doesn't for me make it scary nor build any tension at all, I would like to make some parts slow to generate a bit of a fright for our audience perhaps it could go fast to explain the story of what is happening, also sound would be another important bit to the trailer especially non-diegetic sound, the sound that doesn't appear in the scenes creates this tension and ends it to scare the audience, also diegetic sound could appear in order to make the audience frighten maybe with a radio playing like in Final Destination 3 'There's someone following you' try and be clever with how we create this horror for the audience. Another crucial element is lighting in the scenes, dark is one thing we will have to use in order to make it a horror genre but the lighting has to be exactly accurate to not ruin the dark effects.

The Audience Themselves

I would like to get a survey and get as many people who enjoy horror to answer what they think about what type of monster is the most scariest so our group would know what is generally the most feared murderer in horror movies today. Firstly I would like to ask if they enjoy horrors, and how often do they watch horror movies, and then ask them what type of monster/murderer they fear the most in a horror so No.1 can be Zombies up to No.5 and then have a section for them to write down a few most feared in horrors, me personally I found demons the scariest to watch like what Paranormal Activity has done and maybe ask a max of 50 people to whether to decide on what we could use in our trailer in order to bring out a trailer our horror audience would enjoy.

Aliens Vs Predator Requiem - Posters & Promotion

Alien Vs Predator Requiem poster, this poster pretty much says it for itself, the predator and alien are the biggest images in the poster making it the most important image to the audience and also notice their equally the same size as each other meaning they have equal power, but in the middle the humans are small showing greater power to the predator and alien and that humans are weak also look how they are on guard with guns showing that danger is after them and they fear for their life's by sticking real close to each other for safety.

The colours are quite dark meaning its scary? Both predator and alien are in the dark looking over the humans whilst the humans are in the middle meaning their in their sight the bright light behind them confirm that they are visible to both alien and predator, and obviously the alien and predator gives the description of sci-fi movie, but the guns say action so claiming this movie is a sci-fi and action.

Another Aliens Vs Predator Requiem poster, seeing this tells a different story from the first one, this one shows that alien and predator has invaded/dominated planet earth and by their size on the poster they are seen as a huge threat on planet earth, also they are both facing each other like they are about to fight so they are not allied but at war with each other. This poster tells us it's a sci-fi movie because were viewing the earth from outer space already indicating what genre this movie will be and giving us a idea that aliens have maybe been involved.

Promotion

I would say Aliens Vs Predator Requiem was promoted through YouTube and possibly on TV Adverts http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=PNTLTCWVJ0g - Trailer of Aliens Vs Predator Requiem. Also browsing through google I found they had card's of AVPR Trading Cards to attract younger audience http://foxshop.seenon.com/aliens-vs-predator-requiem-premium-trading-cards/detail.php?p=51546 - Trading Cards of AVPR on sale and also they went in to the gaming industry on PSP maybe they went in to other consoles but cannot find any on google http://uk.gamesport.com/psp/action/alien-vs-predator-requiem/index.html. 

They appear to done a bit of promoting their film maybe they didn't need to because of alien and predator are well known already before combining together to make this movie, perhaps not enough budget to expand the movie to their audience.

Inception - Review

Inception is a sci-fi action movie produced in 2010. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Cobb, a criminal who is on the run from police, but has this power/device to enter others minds and create a dream to find information that could be useful in reality, the only bad thing about Inception is that you have to pay full attention (knowing me I daydream through half of it) missing a bit of the movie and you will end up trying to catch up with what just happened it is truly a confusing movie but once understood it all fits into place and is a well planned genius film. But after I watched it, it caused me to have a headache trying to keep track of all the dreams within dreams and what was going on but was worth the headache.

The beginning is confusing it takes a while for you to understand the complex parts and how does this dream thing work, but once understood the movie is great. It is similar to Matrix with entering another world but Inception takes it further and Cobb is able to enter a dream within a dream, and to exit the dream they have a synchronised way to get out of a dream. Cobb has unsettled business with his wife, none other expect for the architect know of the dangers they let themselves in with entering a dream with Cobb because of a killer dead wife lurks in his head, but why does she seek to kill them in a dream until you know you cannot judge Cobb for a murderer or victim.

The plot of the movie gets even more emotional and complex with rules about dreams entering dreams and the time difference, they have a perfect plan to enter a wealthy man’s head to steal his wealth by getting the code for the safe, but once in progress with infiltrating his dream the perfect plan starts to fall apart as unsuspected memories from Cobb start to appear and life and death now matters in the dream because the synchronisation is no longer death to exit the dream and if they are to die they are forever trapped, now not safe not being able to wake up but instead be trapped the film turns interesting who would make it out dead or alive  and will their perfect plan fall to pieces?

The director must of thought hard about this film because now it is one of my favourites because of the creativity involved to make this film, there are still some parts I still do not understand and a load of people I would guess would have a lot of theories about the film, but still a fantastic movie to watch and I recommend anyone to watch this film.

I Am Legend - Review

Will Smith as Robert Neville stars in a Sci-fi movie called I Am Legend produced by Warner Bros in 2007 It is a post-apocalyptic film (End of Civilization due to a cause e.g. nuclear bomb), also starring Alice Braga, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Willow Smith & Charlie Tahan. I would categorise I Am Legend as More Human than Human on the website Mr Shields gave us http://www.onpostmodernism.com/movies/default.aspx because of the infected humans seek to eat all survivors so replacing humanity with a new devolved human race ignoring all natural human instincts and replacing those instincts with animal instincts.

 Wikipedia states I Am Legend is the 7^th highest grossing film in 2007 earning $276 million $276 and $329 million internationally for a total of $585 all together million.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film), Zoe and Marley his wife and daughter were both killed in a helicopter incident 3 years before to the present day in the film with his dog as his only company, When filmed it showed New York in the kind of environment it would be set in if all humans were to not exist there with wild animals living in the city and tall grass bursting through pathments and roads this is the prospective of what people would believe would happen if a city was disserted of human activity but also shows empty buildings with cars left on streets and some to appear to have crashed to give it more of a look if it was the end of civilization again post-apocalyptic is again involved.

 Will Smith after 3 years is showing signs of loneliness of socialising with other humans, By speaking to model dolls in a music store you can see his trying to fill that loneliness and he mental state is being tested by being alone with no socialising or human contact also with the radio messages his willing to give supplies and protection for company, he may have a dog but he cannot have a conversation with his dog. But he has to suffer being alone in till he can use his own immune blood to reverse the effects of the infection by using his science ability’s but he cannot hold off for so long and must find a cure before he is hunted by the infected that hunt in the dark.

I Am Legend was based on a novel called I Am Legend written in 1954 by Richard Matheson also zombie genre but both novel and movie have different stories.