Mise en Scene

Costumes:

Danny (murderer):
Romantic scenes: In the romantic parts of the film, where hes falling in love he wears jeans, white trainers, and light colour tops. These are every day clothes for a 25 year, which is trying to get across that he is 'normal'.
Gory scenes: This is in contrast to the gory scenes, where hes hardly seen but what is shown, hes all in black to show his dark twisted side.

Siouxsie (Main woman):
Through out the trailer siouxsie is wearing bright colourful dresses, and skirts. This is to show she's vulnerable and feminine. She dresses to match her personality, bright and cheerful. This image of the vulnerable female makes the audience feel more sorry for her when they realise whats going on.

Victims:
The victims which are shown only come up seconds at a time and its usually there bare skin which is shown. However there are glimpse of there clothes and they wear short shirts and low tops. This shows the murderer goes for the good looking females who come across as helpless, which is ironic because it's the same sort of girl he's fell for.

Props:
A knife will be used in the gory shots as the women will be getting stabbed and slashed. A real knife will be used. It will be just an ordinary sharp kitchen knife.

Fake blood will be used to splatter across the victims. I brought the fake blood already made from asda.

Lighting:

All the lighting in the trailer will either be natural light if shot outside or artificial light in the indoor scenes. No extra lights will be added, making it look natural. The gory shots will be shot in the same lighting, with the same brightness, but i will make those shots darker on the mac so it looks like it was shot in dimmer light. This will give it an eary but realistic effective as when the murderer tortured and murdered the girls it would be somewhere quite out the way and in the dark.

Location:

The shots that in inside will all be done in my own house. Some of the outside shots are shot on the park opposite my house, an the rest of the outside shots are taken on the street outside my house. Every location i used is right at hand to make my filming as easy as possible, and this will make sure no issues come up about being able to film somewhere, or problems with being able to get somewhere.

Music

For my trailer and the way I'm going to shoot it, i decided that i wanted a slow and romantic song to go to it. I decided this because the trailer is going to be portrayed as a romantic to begin with. As for the fast gory clips that will flash up through out it, i want a screeching like sound to come up with it to unsettle the audience. I believe this will be the most effective because it will catch the audience by surprise and unsettle them.

I am not aloud to use any already existing music for copy right reasons. To get around this my sister's boyfriend Chris Myers is going to help me. He went to university to study music therefore he knows how to play and apply it to films. After i have completed my movie, i will give it to Chris along with samples of what sort i music i want on it along with sound effects for the screeching noise. Once he's done his half we will watch it together and i will say what changes need to be made if necessary.

Changed version of Trailer

My first idea of how i was going to shoot my trailer was i was going to show the murderer following the first young lady and killing her. Then following a second women and killer her. When he follows the next, he ends up meeting her and falling in love but with still having urges of killing her. However i came to the conclusion this is more like a film opening or a short story not a trailer so i decided to change things around a bit.
The way i decided to shoot my film trailer instead was to show the murderer meeting the women he falls in love with her and to show the audience them getting to know each other. This gives the impression from the beginning it's more of a romantic movie not a gory one, which will shock the audience more when the violence does happens. In between showing the man fall in love with the women i am going to show the man killing a number of other women as well. This will confuse the audience and leave them with lots of questions, wondering whats going on, which will leave them wanting to watch the film.
However with doing the trailer this way i had problems with coming up with ideas on how to end the trailer. Therefore i decided that in the gory shots i wouldn't show the man who was doing the murders. So instead the audience watching would be thinking "whys it showing you gory clips in a romantic?" then i could end the trailer by showing the mans face, to show that its the same man that's seems to caring and falling in love, who is also a women hater and a murderer.

For this trailer to be affective and shocking, I'm going to make the gory clips flash up really fast as not to give to much off.

While researching other film trailer that do this i found this French movie trailer i really liked:



I like the trailer for this film because i like how it changes from one shot to the next. It makes the audience uneasy, and causes a lot of tension. Therefore i would like to use this effect in my movie on the violent parts to unsettle the audience.

Representation of characters

Daniel Clayton
The main male character, Danny, is represented in two different lights. The first side of him you see is a caring, loving person who's just meet a girl and is falling in love. This is how the audiences sees him through the majority of the trailer. However he also had a twisted, dark side to him although the audience don't get to know that this evil man, committing these murders is the same man being shown in the rest of the trailer till the end. Through the romantic parts of the trailer he'll be represented as a stereotypical 25 year old, with a simple but modern dress. His outfit is of the norm for the age, which is trying to put across the image of a typical young lad, with nothing obviously 'strange' about him.

Siouxsie Guest
Siouxsie is the main female in the trailer, in which Danny falls in love with. Like Danny she is represented as a normal 25 year old who dresses with fashion. However unlike Danny, she is what she comes across to be, and has no hidden agenda. Towards the end of the trailer, she goes from coming across as a string female character, to a weak character, as she's getting played and is fooling for it, with out having a clue whats really going on.

Target Audience

The main target audience my movie is going to attract is teenage females and males to adults. Its going to attract the females because of the romantic side to the story. They will enjoy following how the couple are getting to know each other and fall in love. Although the story has a more sinister side to it, this is why the males will want to watch it because they will be attracted to the violent and gory parts of the movie. By making a hybrid genre of horror and romance, it allows me to attract a much larger target audience compared to a single tracked genre film. It would be a good film for couples to watch as it is about a couple, and them falling in love but with a dark twisted side to it. It involves a dark sense of humour, with also showing the reality of some people not knowing anything about the background and history of the person they have just started dating. This makes the D.I.N.K.Y's (dual income, no kids yet) couples a prime target for my movie.
I will give my movie an 18 certificate, which of course only allows over 18's to be able to watch it because of the gory, violent scenes in the film. I'm not going to target my film to over 60's because i believe they wouldn't want to watch this sort of genre movie, so I'm put all my focus on the 18-50/60 audience.
The main social class i believe would watch a hybrid of horror and romance are the working and middle class people. This is because they are surrounded by violence and romance all the time. The working class especially are stereotypically seen in the news as people who do random acts of violence and have the highest number of teenage pregnancies. Therefore a film with gore, violence and relationships might appeal to them.

Research into Horror/Romance

To find out if people will like the idea of me mixing two opposite genres together, horror and romance, i decided to conduct a survey. I did not tell the people i asked the aim of the survey, so there was no demand characteristics. Although tell them afterwards and asked if they would not mind me using there results so there was no ethical problems.
The questions i asked:

1. What gender are you?
2. What age are you?
3. What is your favourite movie genre?
4. Do you watch a variety of genres, or do you mainly stick to your favourite genre?
5. Do you enjoy hybrid genres more or less then movies that strictly stick to a single genre?
6. Which two genres do you think go best with each other and why?
7. Which two genres do you think would go worst with each other and why?
8. Do you think these genres would go well together?:

• action & comedy
• action & romance
• romance & horror
• comedy & gangster
• romance & comedy
• crime & musical
• thriller & romance
• drama & disaster
• thriller & adventure
• sci-fi & horror
• mystery & thriller

9. Do you think two opposite genres like horror and romance or action and comedy would go well together and why?

All together i asked 20 people, of a mixture of ages and ethnicity's. My findings shown:

• All 20 people said they enjoyed hybrid films more than films that stick to one genre.
• Most people enjoyed the genres comedy, horror and romance most
• Majority of people thought that the two genres that go best with each other are romance&comedy and horror&comedy
• Majority of people thought genres that go bad with each other are sci-fi&musical thriller&comedy
• Majority of people (12) said that they thought horror and romance would go well with each other
• 14 people said they thought that two opposite genres would go well with each other.

Although the majority of people did say they they thought horror and romance would go well together, there was still a number of people who didn't. The people who said they thought they would not go well together, at the end of the survey i told them my idea of a trailer and asked if they thought it was a good idea. All 8 people said yes and when i asked why they changed there mind, most people said it was a problem the name of the genres. When i said horror they thought of super natural monster etc.

However all the people who said they believed that horror and romantic genres would not go well together were either under the age of 16 or over the age of 40. This age group was not my targeted audience, it was 18 - 40 therefore it does not have too much of an impact anyway. It does not change things it's just goes to show i was right in thinking that those age groups might not enjoy my film as much as my target audience which tell me i chose my target audience correctly.

After my survey i thought about what people and said. The genre horror does stereotypically contain supernatural monsters and ghosts etc, in which my film does not. So i need to find out which genre would suit my movie more as not to confuse anybody, and to put anybody off watching my film.

My Movie as a Hybird

My movie is going to be a hybrid, with the genres horror and romance. These two genres don't usually collide, although occasionally they may be a love story going on between the victims. This makes the audience become more personal with the characters. It makes them happy when it's a happy ending for the pair, but then it upsets them and makes them feel sorry for the couple if one or even both end up getting killed or hurt.

But what is a rare sight in movies is when the murderer ends up falling in love with someone. This is whats going to happen in my film. Even though it's not normally done i believe the two genres will work well together, because they are the two opposites.

Normally the audience judge whether they want to watch a certain film or not by the genre, for example a boy who enjoys sci-fi's might not want to watch a romance film. However because of the two genres iv chosen and they tend to attract different audiences, iv got to portray my trailer in a way that it attracts both types of audiences. My films going to attract boys because they stereotypically enjoy watching gory, violent films. But also girls because they stereotypically enjoy watching romantic, love filled films. This in turn will broaden my target audience.

Hybrid Genres

In film, genre refers to the method of film categorisation, based on similarities in the narrative elements from which the films are constructed. There's no fixed boundaries but are often formed by sets of conventions. Many films cross through into multiple genres, by the way they borrow and combine these conventions. This leads to hybrid genres branching off from the more common genres.

Some hybrid genres:

Action & Comedy
Action, comedy films blend comic antics and action where the film stars combine witty comments with daring stunts and explosive plots. This genre became recognised when comedians like Eddie Murphy started taking more film roles in the 80's. These types of films are often buddy films, with the two main characters being mismatched partners, which is where the comedy comes out.

Some Action/Comedy films:



Bad boys / Bad boys "
Hot Fuzz
Rush Hour
Midnight Run




Comedy & Horror
The comedy, horror films are the type of films where the usually scary and tense moments are approached in the way that they become humorous. Some of the horror comedy films use the obvious and stupid cliches. Some are much more subtle, and approach the comedy part much more cleverly. Then another style is to rely on over the top violence and gore.

Some Comedy/Horror films:



Scary Movie
Shaun of the Dead
Haunted mansion
Little shop of horrors
Club dread
Young Frankenstein

Romance & Tragedy Romance movies have always tended to be and still mainly do, end with "they all lived happily ever after". However with all the films ending this way the audience got bored with being able to predict what was going to happen. Therefore film makers started producing films which didn't always have such a happy ending. These films usually had one of the main characters dying or falling in love with someone else.

Some Romance/Tragedy Films:

Cruel Intentions
True Romance
Titanic
Romeo and Juliet
the notebook






Most films now a days are hybrid genres. If a film company stuck strictly to one genre in their movie then the audience would be able to predict the ending quite precisely. Comedy and romance are the main genres that have combined with other ones to make hybrid genres. This is because comedy, humor and wit can come into any situation, and audiences enjoy being made to laugh. It's also the same for romance, it can come into any genre quite naturally. The theorist, Janet Stagier, even goes as far to argues that Hollywood films are never pure genres, as most movies blend the love oriented plot of the romance genre, with all other ones.

Clips im using.

While researching into gory romantic films, i was trying to find one in which the murderer falls in love. It was really difficult as there are not many movies in which this happen. However i did found this clip of the film 'Red Dragon' a follow on from the Hannibal Lecter films. In red dragon, Ralph Fiennes plays a murdering cannibal who against his will falls on love with a blind woman Emily Watson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfTsDQu7eH8


This clip is really good as it shows the frustration of a murderer who's getting feelings for someone, and I'm using this idea.

How im going to shoot my trailer

I'm going to start my trailer with showing the audience the murderer following the first women. He follows her down a wooded alley, and takes a picture of her. She sees a flash and turns around but can't see anyone so carries on. He then grabs her into the bushes and kills her. It then goes onto shots of a big house, and inside is a girl sleeping in bed. The murderer walks in and grabs her mouth to stop her screaming then yanks her out of bed. The audience don't get to see him kill her though. He then starts stalking his next victim. He takes her photograph of her walking into her house, and prints them off and sticks them onto his board. However when he goes to wait outside her house for her the next day, she's already left and they accidentally end up bumping into each other. I go on to show different days out they spend with each other, to show them getting to know each other. One night whilst in bed together, he can't sleep, he looks at the clock and its 2:00am. He goes down the stairs and gets a knife. He then goes back to where she's sleeping, and lifts up the knife but then he can't bring himself to it. He gets frustrated and leaves. Later it shows the same clock at 4:06am, then shows clips of the mans feet in the shower with blood pouring to the bottom of the shower, and clips of him washing away the blood of his hands. This tells the audience without actually showing them that he got frustrated and went out and took his rage out on some other woman.
The trailer is shot in a linear way as not to confuse the audience and so they can get a good understanding of whats going on with out having to think about anything to much.

Institution

After choosing which idea to go along with, i decided to do some research into which institution to use to produce my movie. Firstly i decided i would use a British institution, as my movie will be shot in England, and will use English characters. I found a website, which had all British institutions, then i had to research deeper into what all the intuitions were about, what sort of films they produced etc.

The website i used: www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/distributors.html


I rounded it down to these three movie distributors:

• Anchor Bay Entertainment


• Arrow films


• Gala Films

Out of these three i decided to go for Anchor Bay Entertainment because they do a wide range of genres including horror and romance and my movie is a hybrid of both. Also because they haven't produced any really high budget films, and my movie will be on low budget, therefore this institution is suitable for my purposes.

Which idea to choose

I decided to not go with my first idea as i thought trying to get my actors to act like there on drugs might be a bit difficult. Also the idea of using drugs might put some people off which would narrowing the target audience, and i want the biggest target audience possible. If i took the use of drugs out of my film, i could make a broader target audience, however it would be too much like my film opening for my media work in 2008/2009, which i do not want to do as i want to do something different to show i have a wide range of ideas and skills.

I also decided not to do my second idea, as i fought it would be a wise move to stay away from the supernatural side of movies and to stay with the realistic, as it would be more sensible with my resources.

Therefore iv chosen to go along with my third idea. It's the most realistically doable out of all my ideas, and with my resources will be the most effective.

PITCH

Pitch

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This is my pitch i presented to the class , near the beginning of the school year to get the first feedback and ideas on how i should shoot my trailer. I got some usueful ideas and suggestions to get me started.

Third Idea

My idea is about a male serial killer, who stalks young women who then goes onto murdering them. He's psychotic and has a hatred towards women. He follows them, taking photographs of them, without them knowing, and when there own there own he kidnaps them and mutilates them in horrible ways to show his hatred of females. He then takes photographs of them once there mutilated and
pins them up on his board with the others. However with one of the victims he's stalking he accidentally bumps into them and they start talking, and they decide to go out somewhere together. He sees this as a perfect opportunity of getting her on her own. However once there together he actually starts enjoying himself, so when it comes to the crunch time, he can't bring himself to do it. Afterwards they start meeting more frequently, and he realises he's got feeling for this women, but hates the fact he has, and decides he needs to do something about it and get rid of her. Although yet again he can't bring himself to it, and so he takes his rage out on unexpected women. This women's messing with his head and the trailer leaves the audience thinking whether he goes with his urge to love or his urges to kill.


Ideas for the Title of this film...

• Love can kill
• Love hurts
• Dangerous love
• Twisted Romance