Roles, Props and Costumes

Roles
Director: Barween
Editor: Maria
Camerawoman: Aalyiah
Antagonist Actress: Cynthia
Ava Van Camp: Sandra

Props
Shovel
Crucifix

Costumes
Antagonist/Cynthia: All black outfit with a baseball cap and heavy-duty black boots, preferably Dr. Martens or Caterpillar
Ava Van Camp/Sandra: Dark colours, sneakers, small amount of make-up, minimal amount of jewellery to avoid reflection, and also to demonstrate that she is not wealthy.

Storyboard: Main Task

Establishing shot: the church and close by graveyard. Sets the scene- GOTHIC: bare trees, bleak sky, gravestones, church etc. Ominous atmosphere. Diegetic organ music play.  

Point of view from the attacker: long shot. Individual sitting in a pew. Diegetic footsteps- then stop. Non diegetic organ music continues. 

Mid shot from the front: attacker hidden through the shadow. Individual is a young, isolated woman, crying.  Organ music accelerates. 

ECU of the woman's face, tears are visible on her face- clear emotion. Music continues. Heavy breathing in the background.

Man approaches and knocks her out (not seen). Long shot of a person dragging the girl out of the church and across the graveyard, carrying a shovel. Diegetic music peaks, becomes more tense.

Man buries the girl, unknowingly, next to her mothers grave. Close up of the grave. Fade out and credits role with the music.

Planning: Gothic Font

These wine bottles label uses Gothic font and imagery to appeal to a wide audience of wine- enjoyers.

In Roman times, soldiers of the 4th legion who graduated with honours in achieving victories for the Empire were rewarded with a plot of land in Villar de Anerdo, which then became known as Campus Veteranus. This, in turn, gave us the name Campo Viejo.

More than 100 years ago, Don Melchor de Concha y Toro. Toro reserved for himself an exclusive batch of his best wines. To keep strangers away from his private reserve, he spread the rumor that the Devil lived in that place, hence the name: Casillero del Diablo, The Devil's Cellar.







The sticker/logo, depicting the Devil's head, on the bottle emphasizes the Gothic theme.

Jane Eyre

Pitch for Main Task

Our original film pitch read like this: With her parents on holiday, 19 year old uni student Ava Van Camp decides to live life to the full. But who will protect her when an uninvited guest turns up?

However, it did not relate to our sub genre of horror, namely Gothic horror. Thus, we changed it.
The church bell strikes 11. It is night. Elizabeth is sitting alone in a pew. A shadow looms over her. She had better hold her breath.
 In this pitch, it was unclear who Elizabeth was so we altered it.
The church bell strikes 11. It is night. Nineteen year old Elizabeth sits alone in a pew. A shadow looms over her. She had better hold her breath.
 We decided to change the name to something more Gothic, but we decided it didn't work.  19 year old Ava VanCamp is not alone. Praying for her dead mother in a local church, she senses an eerie presence looming in the shadows. And it strikes.

Our feedback was as follows:
At the end of the second pitch, 'And it strikes' seems to be telling too much of the story. Making it indirect could have a better affect and also by using a cliffhanger to intrigue the audience.

To finish, our evaluation questions were:

1.How have you identified your target audience in your pitch?
2.Why would this film appeal to your target audience?
3.How would this fit with your chosen sub genre?
4.How is this different to other horror films?
5.Why did you change it?
6.What feedback did you receive to make you change this?

1. Our target audience will be drawn in because we mention the age of our main character and our target audience is estimated to be around this age. It will also relate to our audience because we haven't identified the character's current status. This will attract more young adults, as they can range from uni-students to assistant shopkeepers to training medical practitioners.

2. This film will appeal to our audience, because at this stage in their life they may be interested in religion and find it familiar to them and so this relates to our gothic horror genre, because our main task is set in a church.

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Blow Up (1966) Film Credits

At the beginning of the film Blow Up, the credits take place in the park where a much of the action takes place, and where the main character disappears at the end of the film. The credits are written in a large, plain  font with scenes mirrored in them, like cutouts.  The music played is unusually cheerful, as the film's general atmosphere is rather serious, due to it's plotline of a mysterious corpse a photographer notices in a picture he has taken. Interestingly, the majority of the  music used is diegetic, usually being played from a record player in the photographer's apartment or a live band (featuring Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin) in a club.

Cecil B. Demented Tattoos

Cecil B. Demented
Directed by John Waters

 

In the film Cecil B Demented, a group of terrorist film makers have the names of various underground film makers. Including William Castle, David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kenneth Anger, Sam Fuller, Spike Lee and Sam Peckinpah.


 

I thought this very original, as I had not seen anything like this before. The idea would be excellent to use as film credits. However, my group would be unable to do so as it would not correspond with our genre (gothic horror). Nonetheless, I found the idea interesting, especially as the film received negative reviews.