Film Titles.

The film title we have chosen to use in our production is Blackwood Forest. This name is a relation to other slasher films that have been used in the past like Eden Lake and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. These films all have the name in their title and make the film focus around a certain area.

Our film is called Blackwood Forest. We originally wen through many names such as bloodwood forest and Black-leaf wood but we then decided to settle for Blackwood Forest since it implies shadow and darkness with the 'Blackwood'. The name links back to the film Eden Forest, using the same enigma and use of the location being the film title.

Horror Film Characters

In organising and researching for our film campaign i have found that little girls are extremly scary. The fact they go against the conventions of a horror film is perfect for giving the audience a sense of the unknown as you usually accociate children and especially girls with innocence and happiness.




This is Samara, also known as the girl from ‘The Ring’. The Ring is a film that makes use of challenging conventions to do with little girls being scary and uses this to a great effect. She is seen in the film as extremely dangerous and also shown as incredibly scary due to firstly her face is almost always obscured by her hair. This is a form of mask as it is covering her face from the audience and gives a sense on threat. She is also seen in flashbacks throughout the film as a cut little girl. This is adding more to the sense of evil and fear as enigma is created through not knowing how she turned into such a form of evil.

This is Esther from a film called Orphan. She is portrayed origionally as a lonely orphan that has her own extraordinary talents. She is thenlater revealed to be demented and extremly evil. The main thing about this character is that she is origionally portrayed as being cute, this confuses the audience and also gives them even more fear as they origionally put faith and trust in her through her being nice.


These characters are linked to the main antagonist in our film. She is portrayed as a very young girl and has a innocent smile and laugh as if to show that she does not know the things she does are fatal and just a game to her. She is losely based on these characters as they are young girls that at some point in the film to be shown to be innocent and origionally good before the events of the film.

In the film Nightmare on Elm Street there is a male character called Freddy Krueger. He is in fact a male antagonist which is the stereotype of a horror film antagonist. He is a very recognizable character in horror films as his costume with the red and green striped jumper and hat are easily recognizable. His glove is incredible recognizable as the clawed glove has almost become a symbol for horror films in the past as it is instantly recognizable in films and has even made cameos in other films such as in the 9th Friday the 13th, the clow is seen grabbing Jason back to hell. His face is also horribly disfigured and burned. This is very scary as the audience is scared by his unnatural face. He is a stereotypical type of antagonist and does not go with out film type as we will be using a young female antagonist.

The victim of our trailer is a large man, a hiker. Hikers are generally strong and burly, he is then attacked b

y a young girl. This is going drastically agains the conventions as usually the big male character is the strong stoic type and even could be the anta

gonist.

Chip dove is in a film called Jennifer's body. This film also goes against conventions so that the

males in the film are all seen as victims as the female is the main antagonist.

Film Poster Analysis

Applying the Recognizable Conventions of Trailers

Analyzing a trailer

The Expendables

We are told the name of the film near the end of the trailer and the most climatic part of the trailer, this gives the audience a lasting memory of the name of the film.

We are told who is starring in the film because this film has a huger cast of big action movies stars like Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham. This m.is given to us in huge writing bursting into the screen in white on a black background for the most impacting effect. this is going with the genre of the film being a very violent and flamboyant

action film. The reason we are told who is starring int he film is because of the very large cast of massive movies stars. This would bring all the fans from each of them to see this film and also attract action movie fans as it boasts that cast.

We see a large amount of explosions and gunfights in the film so we will be seeing a large amount of gunfights, fires and explosions. This is the ground basis for a good action film, this screengrab clearly sums up most of the action in the film.

This screen grab contains the military vehicle and the rolling soldiers, on the background of the huge explosion. This is just eye candy for the audience to draw them in and give them a taste of spectacular shots like this for the film.

The soundtrack of the film is by a wellknown band of the rock genre called Shinedown. They would bring thier respected fans to watch this film. As well having thier own fanbase, the bands music would suit the films action nature perfectly with the hard rock of their music.

Concepts

Concepts. on Prezi

The concepts of the current film our film would be a horror film. In our group work we decided to do a brainstorm or mind-map type style to put our thoughts on. This is a photograph of what we wrote. We looked at many types of horror films and compared their aspects. We concluded that there was a very fixed formula for horror films as they usually contain some sort of weapon or device used for hurting / murdering people. In Nightmare on Elm Street it is Freddy Krueger's clawed glove, which is a very scary and brutal weapon. In other films it is simple mind torture like in The Ring, Samara only uses her mind to kill people and drain their life. We also showed that the horror usually stars male antagonists such as Freddy Krueger (Nightmare on Elm Street), Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) or Michael Myers (Halloween). They are all strong, scary and very intimidating characters, This is a main part of having a male antagonist as there is usually a female protagonist so they seem to be weaker and an underdog in the fight. Other films challenge this stereotype of the male being the antagonist, such as The Ring. In The Ring, the antagonist is a girl called Samara who is portrayed through most of the film as a little girl but when she actually attacks during the film she is a very scary force. This switches the audience to the unfamiliar as they are used to male protagonists.

Title Analysis.