Opening Scene-
For my second idea i decided to go for the typical opening scene, but with a twist. It starts out of shots of a big scary house, then inside the house is a young girl asleep in bed. Whilst sleeping, her bedroom door creaks open and a man walks inside with a knife. He walks over to the bad and lifts up his knife but as he does a pair of skinny, pale arms shoot out from underneath the bed and grab his ankles and yanks him hard under the bed where he disappears.
The story behind this opening is that the pale arms belong to a dead girl who got murdered a few years before. Because she was murdered in such a horrendous and violent attacks, she comes back from the dead to go after the one who killed her. The only problem with this is that she don't know for certain who it actually was so she goes after anyone it could be. Therefore she kills a number of Innocent people along the way, but not people who are really innocent as there all killers and rapists. 
My inspirations for this film were The Grudge and The Ring but with my own twist to make it original. It's similar in the ways that i have used a dead girl coming back to life. However the girl in The Grudge is haunting a house and the girl in The Ring is killing the people who have watched the video. The dead girl in my film will be coming back to get vengeance on her killer, but killing a number of wring people on the way, which i believe is not like any other film.
For this idea i researched into Japanese horror. This is because over the past few years J-horror (for short) has become more and more popular, which has changed the sort of films we watch today. Because of how good the Japanese are at making horror films, a lot of there movies have either been changed into American or entirely remade in America for our viewing. Some Japanese films that got made into American and done well in both counties are 'Dark water' 'The grudge' 'Pulse' 'One missed call' The ring' 'Premonition' 'Recarnation' etc. The Ring was the first Japanese film that made a big impact on the American and English screens in 1998. It aloud the western culture to experience yurei, which are Japanese ghosts which have been bound to the physical world through string emotions which don't allow them to pass on. Depending on what emotion it is that's keeping them on the world is depending on what sort of ghost that it is that is stuck on the earth and unfortunately there usually bound here by vengeance. Like most folklore creatures yurei have traditional appearances and usually stick by a certain set of rules. The yurei are usually female, and wear a white robe looking piece of clothing, which are the traditional funeral garments in Japan. They also usually have long, black, messy hair.
As I'm using the same idea of a dead girl in my film, like the films that inspired me, I'm going to use the same looking girl in mine, the traditional yurei. This image would be a good one to use as it's simple to achieve but very effective. All i would need is to put a black wig and some white face paint onto a young female. 
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Second Idea
First Idea
Once choosing to do a horror movie, i came up with my first idea. It involved a group of good friends having a good time, who have just finished there A Levels and are about to leave to go to university. They decide to have one big last night, where they will all be together for the last time, before going off there separate ways. They decide to go camping, somewhere far away as not to disturb anyone. As it will be there last time altogether, they decide to make it a good one, and drink lots of alcohol and do some drugs, although they don't normally. It starts out fine, until everyone starts tripping out and seeing things. One of the group goes missing, although the rest are not that bothered as they think he's just got too messy and he'll wonder back soon, although the audience gets to see the young lad get murdered by a masked person. Then a second person goes missing but yet still no-ones too bothered. It's only after when someone goes to have a wee in the woods and finds one of the body's and comes back screaming that everyone starts to get bothered. However when they all go to look the body is gone, and they think the boy was just tripping. However everyone starts seeing people in weird masks in the woods and more of the group get picked off, but no-one knows when there just tripping or if its actually happening. They try to get away, but not knowing whats real and whats just in there heads.
My inspiration for my idea was from the film Shrooms. It's similar in the ways it's young people in the woods who have taken drugs and don't know whats real and whats not.
The title i came up with for this idea was 'XTC' as all the characters would be on estacy.
PITCH
Choosing a genre
The first thing i had to look at when choosing to do a trailer was which genre to do. I choose to look at action, gangster, horror and romance.
Firstly i looked into action but i decided to not choose this as the genre to my film because all the action films i researched had guns, explosions and fast cars. The main locations were either in the fast cars in a chase or on top of buildings etc. Therefore because of the limited resources i have, and what i can do, iv chosen not to do an action film because i don't think it would be very effective compared to other action films.
Then i looked at gangster movies, but i also chose to go against doing a gangster film trailer. The characters could be easily replicated, as the norm character in gangster films are men in suits. However the main choice of weapon gangsters use are normally guns and a firing gun would be hard to imitate in my trailer. Also most gangster/bank robber films are shot in or around banks which would not be sensible.
Afterwards i looked into romance films. I decided everything in a romance trailer was doable with my resources. The main characters are usually a male and female who fall in love. No weapons or effects are needed, and the normal costumes and locations are what the majority of people where and go every day. However i thought that the whole genre of romance was too predictable and had been done lots of times before. Therefore i choose not to do a romance as i wanted to do a more original and exciting film trailer.
Therefore the one i was left with was horror. As with the romance, there was no guns, fast cars or explosions necessary. The typical location for a horror movie are usually big, scary houses or isolated woods and the normal weapon used are usually knives and axes etc. The stereotype characters tend to be a young female victim and a 'bad guy'. All these necessities which are usually in horror films are all doable with my resources, unlike the action and gangster films and it'll be more exciting then doing a romance.However after choosing to make a horror trailer, i didn't want it to be typical and predictable. I wanted it to have more a twist and be original, rather then a young female getting chased by the murderer.
