Health and Safety: Lighting

I have received a health and safety brief from my teacher to use the cold lights that my college can supply. We are debating in using these lights because we want to film in a theatre and the lighting would be provided. We were informed about how to dismantle the lights, and how to safely place them on a tripod and the measures of keeping people away from the wires.

Props

These are the items were planning on using, with a table showing cost and source.

Individual Prop use:

We are clothing our main and only character in a pin strip suit very similar to this one. We chose a suit as it connotates a gentleman and manners, traits that we don't want associated with our protagonist. Therefore a suit will confuse the audience and disguise his true character. We will also include a small rose within the chest pocket of the suit.

We are getting 4-5 half mannequins as props on the stage. Although not life like, when placed with clothes will be adequate.

We also need old clothes to dress the mannequins to make them seem more human.

We are using a full size mannequin which is going to be dancing with the character.

A record player like the one shown is going to used to play the music and set the classical theme.

Why we don't need a script.

In our opening sequence it does not require a script because we chose not to use dialog but instead we use the classical music to show a classy and sophisticated representation of the character. So a detailed dialog is not required as there’s no communication between characters.

Time Management

On December 1st we posted the time management sheet that we created on Outlook Web App and included every detail of our project that needs completing in a certain date to have full organisation on our project. We have included the idea process, the final research summary and research into target audience. Also finding a location, writing a script, finding props and performers, and completing a story board.

Target Audience Profile

The age group of our target audience is 25 - 50, as we researched that mature audiences would relate closer to the themes present in our title sequence (Regret, Loneliness, Heartbroken, Anger), than those below 25 would. Not only based on asking members of our demographic, but studying user data for Se7en at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/ratings allowed us to see that the majority of those viewing Psychological horrors were over 18 and were mainly male, with their viewings of 207, 562 far outnumbering 32, 110 females who posted user ratings. This was surprising and caused us to reflect on our film, and consider how to appeal further to the populated male audience. Steven Casey Murray, is 'Bellaonline's horror film editor, however and believes "Horror films cross gender-boundaries because they deal with the primal emotion, the basic instinct in all human beings - fear". We decided to aim to keep our film appealing to both genders, as alienating certain gender audiences is not necessary in horror, in comparison to age.

Our target audience are intelligent, mature and experienced. They realise the complications that love can cause, and the problems it can create. They prefer well thought out, sensual and deep meaning film rather then the 'jumpy', 'blood and guts' horror often associated with a teen audience. They realise the disturbing effect objects such as clowns and empty locations can create, and realise that subverting traditional connotations is an effective form of 'horror'. Understanding light in film, they realise the strengths of using black and white in horror, but are welcome to all aspects of colour.
Their interests are reading and watching films that are not always advertised and marketed but are more obscure, discussing the message behind films.

Mood Board: Anonymous Responses

Male : 29 Years of Age

1. The image evoke Fear and Angst. Something hidden and dark.

2.I find all of the images shown disturbing, particularly the clown to the left, as it subverts the traditional meanings of clowns as happy, and instead portrays them as deceiving and hiding and that they might be fighting internal emotional conflict.

3. I don't know.

4. Yes, black and white is often used in film as light is more subjective than colour.

Female : 43 Years of Age

1. I think the pictures are quite spooky and sad.

2. The images are sad more than disturbing, and the top left picture of an empty warehouse is almost the exact same location of my recurring nightmare.

3. Well I find the pictures quite disturbing, but I don't think children would do so really, as they probably wouldn't understand what's 'so scary' about a clown and an empty warehouse .

4. I think colour would give the same effect quite honestly.

Male : 48 Years of Age

1. Creepy pictures! Although I don't find the withered rose scary!

2. The most disturbing image to me is either the dead body at the bottom, or the x-ray of broken hands.

3. I think kids would find them quite disturbing, but I wouldn't show my child these pictures!

4. Darker pictures do seem to be more emotive than colour, but colour can sometimes be pretty powerful. I think only colour would work well with the clown, for example.

Mood Board: Facebook Response