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Possible Locations to film

This house is owned by my nan, the house is situated in Carshalton. I believe that this location would be almost perfect for our horror film, as it is isolated and matches our feedback from our target audience. However the only downside is that it is hard to get to without a car.

The second Possible house is Sam's. His house is quite close to our school so it also adds to the practicality of choosing this location to film, as we will be able to get there quickly in turn giving us longer to film. Thus allowing us to fully focus on getting our shots completed to a good quality.

Font - Black Asylum

As a whole group we made the decision that black asylum would be best suited as our font. Due to the dark imperfect text, which adds a hint of mystery and horror. This text will be used for showing the titles, such as the Title of the film, the actors, the director, producer... ext

Fonts For horror

Survey

To gain a deeper understanding into what our target audience likes in terms of horror films, and what they would like to see to screen. We sent out a survey asking various relevant questions.

Fist off we ask the gender and age of the participant.

These results show us that most are under 25 and the  gender is split.

We go on to ask about where the participant best likes horror films  to be situated.

  

The results show that there is a even divide between ; Church, haunted house and forest. Thus we could have a choice of one from them.

 Next question is about probs.

This shows us that weapons are the most popular choice closely followed by music boxes.

Then we asked about characters.

According to these results most think of clowns when the horror genre is brought up.

 Another question is asking Slasher or Supernatural

 These results show us that most prefer a supernatural horror over a slasher.

25 Word Pitch

Distribution Company

The company that we have chosen to distribute our film that we will be producing is Lionsgate. After much discussion we chose Lionsgate as we believe it best suits our target audience. Our target audience being young adults aged 18-25 of either gender. Lionsgates interest in horrors is evident, from their vast array of previous horror films they have distributed.

Such as; 

• Saw I-V
• Alone in the dark
• Beast within
• Creep

For example, the Saw series is about a murder staying in the shadows who sets up death games, for people who he sees as doing wrong things usually affecting the murders life.

Initial Ideas

The sub-genre we have chosen is Slasher.

Therefore the type of characters we expect to see in these films would be a group of people or a isolated community. So based on these expectations and due to your research indicating that people like to see a group of characters in slasher films the most. We decided that we would have a group of teenagers being stalked and hunted by a killer.

The murderer themselves are usually masked our their identities are hidden until later on in the film to create suspense, due to the fact that the murderer could be anybody or anywhere. The most common murderers have a mask on or just look really shady and stick to the shadows.

History of titles

In the past title sequences were very much, watch them to know who made it and so on. However, more recently title sequences have began to change and become a part of the film, thus becoming visually appealing.

 

Here is a video that I found that shows how the typography and the animation of titles has changed over the years.