What is a Horror

The reason why iput this powerpoint on my blog was to show you some basic and "simple", typical Horror Movies Ideas. All movies should have a dark and low light theme. Things like a high level of contrast in the frame (Seven) or rare showing the killer in detail (Jaws) are quiete important and will be used trough the whole Films.

Horror Movie ideas

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Camera Movements

Steadicam:


It is the alternative for tracks. It is not fixed on tracks.

What is a Horror-Film?

Horror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers, it is TRYING to scare you. It deals with the Fears and Terrors of the audience for an example fear of the other in the darkness fear of the body being ripped / mutilated; our own personal line is being crossed. Emergence of terror at any level is enjoyed from a safe distance by the viewer. Horror-Films work because the hidden (Implicit) or obvious (Explicit) message included within the narrative. Things like rejection or punishment are subjects which deviate from “correct” thinking. If we see Horror-Films from a simplistic point of view the basic message is the nice shy girl = “good”, the “slutty” girl = bad. It deals with thought fears like fears of strangers and hitchhikers which are breaking our personal line. Modern Horror is about defeating with the psychology rather than the supernatural. Horror shows the world very negatively. Are there so many paedophiles in the world? Does every mental patient try to kill us? Probably not. But Horror is the Genre that brings the most money. The audience is fine with the continual reinvention and remaking of every successful Horror product. We wonder why there should be an Indiana Jones but accept the producing Saw 6 or remaking of for an example Nightmare on Elmstreet.

PRELIM TASK EDITING

We first began to write out the different takes we judged as the best and put it in the Logbin. Because we did more takes for one shot we had the opportunity of choosing the best clip. We shot more than one take because it I think it is better for an actor because he gets used to it and as a result acts better! Our choices were influenced by the quality of acting and by the camera movement and use of space. Then we were organizing our shots reffering back the storyboard. We used a sound between a few cuts to make them more seem less, to do that we also used match on action which means that a movements connects cut and frames with each other. We did one shot that was not in the script. The reason for that was because we wanted to give it a strong ending. We gave the dialogue a sense through this shot. The main issue was that our microphone was broken so we had to do a voice over for the vocals and the sound effects. We showed Saskia more than Ben so the audience is on her side. We shot a few close ups of her to increase her insecurity. We set the lighting so it cast a big shadow on the wall which made been more scary and bigger.

Prelim Task

For our prelim task we had the honor to shoot the scene in N04.
We tried to create a thrilling atmosphere in the room. Therefore we had just one table with a lamp on it and kept the scene quite dark. I chose the camera- position angle and focus. I would like to do more scenes handheld because the frame seems more dynamic but that was not possible. If you shoot everything on a tripod it happens very easily that your scene seems boring. But If you shoot a scene handheld try to be as steady as you can. There is always a bit movement in a frame that is shot handheld but this makes it interesting.
The lighting in our scene was already given when we started to shoot. My group did not want to change the light settings but I still think if we would have changed the intensity of the light the scene would have seemed more dark and thrilling. I just wanted to have one "main light" (the lamp on the table) and just fill up the shadows with a soft light. I chose to shoot the boy who forces the girl to consume drugs in a low angle to let him seem more dominant and put the girl in a kind of weak or scared position.
We always followed the rule of third because in my opinion it makes a picture more interesting and you can literary play with the attention of the audience.

A little but very useful advice for a Close Up is: do not show the whole head of the person in the frame. Just film 1 inch or less above the eyebrows. The reason why you do it is as always it makes your frame interesting. You do not see the whole head because you imagination just add the upper half of the head to the frame. See picture of Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds.

Our scene consists of a: Close Up, Long Shot, Mid Shot, 2 over the shoulder shot and one extra shot.

Prelim Post Production

Firs we uploaded the video to the Final Cut Server, from which we accessed an Edit Proxy (digital copy) of the raw footage which we then opened in Final Cut Pro to begin the editing / post production process.

Then we selected the shots we wanted to use and logged them. Logging is the process where the editor chooses the best takes and transferes them into the "Log-Bin". Then we cutted the material we tried to make the cuts not obvious, that is called Continuity Editing.

Continuity editing is an invisible style of editing in narrative film and television. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical relationship between shots.
Basically, to ensure that the selected shots are put together in an order that makes sense to the audience – so that they can follow the story as clearly as possible.
In most films, cutting to continuity is, which increases smooth transition of time and space. However, some films incorporate cutting to continuity into a more complex classical cutting technique, one which also tries to show psychological continuity of shots. The montage technique relies on symbolic association of ideas between shots rather than association of simple physical action for its continuity.

Continuity editing can be divided into two categories: temporal continuity and spatial continuity – literally TIME and SPACE.
The important ways to preserve temporal continuity are avoiding the ellipsis(an apparent break in natural time) , using continuous Diegetic sound, and utilizing the match on action technique.
It would also be necessary to shoot the whole film in one take in order to keep from having to edit together different shots, causing the viewer's temporal disorientation.
Digetic sounds are noises that are naturally in a movie (e.g. doors, cars). Continuous diegetic sound helps to smooth temporally questionable cuts by overlapping the shots (SOUND BRIDGES, connect frames).

Match on action for example is, a shot of someone throwing a ball can be edited to show two different views, while maintaining temporal continuity by being sure that the second shot shows the arm of the subject in the same stage of its motion as it was left when cutting from the first shot.

Disolve or a fade is an smooth cut where the first frames fades out and is over layed with an other picture that fades in.

Cross-cutting is a technique which conveys an undeniable spatial discontinuity. It can be achieved by cutting back and forth between shots of spatially unrelated places.

Jump Cut
A jump cut is a cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly.
Recently the jump cut has been used in films like Snatch, from Guy Ritchie, and Run Lola Run, from Tom Tykwer.

Horror Poster

I decided to combine probably the most terrifying horror characters in the history of film (Jason from Friday the 13th and Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre) because if they "act" as a team there would be more action, more fear and definitely more murderers in a movie. In this film the victims do not have to be scared about one psychopath they have to be scared about 2 of the most sick individuals on earth. It is the comlete difference to Freddy vs. Jason because this time Jason and Leatherface are working together.

The poster is mainly in black, that is a symbol of fear which surrounds both characters and the poor girl gets swallowed by it. Leatherface is in the upper part of the picture because he is the even worse killer and Jason is carrying his victim out of the frame. The reason why the She is in the middle of both killers

is because Jason and Leatherface are focused on the girl and one of them is going to get her.

Video Camera

This is the camera we used (PD 1 70)

This is the Red One camera The first and only camera yet that enables Amateur-Filmmakers or starting private companys to shoot professional movies in High Definition. The camera as its shown costs 17.500$ this do not include basic cinematography-grade lenses which cost from 5.000 $ up to 10.000 $.
Video Cameras work basicly like a a photo camera the big difference is a normal Film camera takes 24 frames per seconds(NTSC) or 25 frames per seconds (PAL) which is the most common type in all countries. Because our eye lethargic it sees a moving picture when there are 16 frames in one second. This how a video camera works explainend in a very simplified way, but these are the basics! Throug different camera movements a mood is created. It can be a smooth, calm atmospher than a tracking shot or a smooth Pan or Tilt would be the best to reinforce this. If a director wants to establish a rushed, dangerous or excited mood the camera should be handheld. This makes the picture more shaky and lets it seem more nervous.

INTRO TO STILLS CAMERA

A still camera is the type of camera that is used to take still photographs. It captures light on to photographic film. To create a good picture you should be aware of different topics. Hotspot, Zoom, Focus, Angle and Light. These are all factors of leading the eye. Like the hotspots. They lead you to the point you should looking at in a chronological order. Focus and Zoom also create a similar effect e.g. focus is very important because can put thinks that we are interested in in focus and the other parts out of focus so that leads our gain to the dominant object in the frame. Angle shows us what status the object or person has that is in the frame. Light creates a mood and feeling (soft light-show the person or object in a beautiful or softer way; hard light-shows every thing in a harder an rough way often used in pictures that should create a dangerous or dramatic atmosphere

Different shot lead the attention of the audience to different points in the picture.

Extreme Wide shot

Very Wide Shot

Wide Shot

Mid Shot

Medium Close Up

Close-Up

Extreme Close-Up

Cut Away

Cut In

Two Shot

Over-the-Shoulder Shot

Noddy Shot

Point-Of-View shot

Weather Shot