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.