Week 2 Posting (Change of Genre)

After further discussion with my group we have decided to change our genre of our film opening from horror to thriller. We decided to do this because the aspects of the thriller genre fit much better than the characteristic of a horror film. A horror film typically has some sort of monster or phenomenon that is a danger to the main character or characters. However, thriller would fit our opening better because we plan on creating a plot and film opening that is suspenseful.

This image is what a typical horror film might contain. We won't be doing this and rather have a person as the antagonist. Horror films have antagonists that aren't typical people, they have antagonists that are monsters, ghosts, altered people like in this image (A vampire). Overall, I believe that our choice to research the genre of thriller will greatly assist us in creating a film opening that is consistent with the techniques utilized in the genre.

Week 1 Posing (Planning)

Nothing in this posting is finalized yet and will just act as guidance for the film opening. Set design and plot are the first two aspects we must tackle.

The set design of a horror movie must contain aspects that convey the plot. The plot will need to invoke fear in the viewer. We will do this by creating some sort of monster of phenomenon that the viewer will be scared of.

We want to create a scene where it is building up to one like the one above. We want to develop reason why the main character should be afraid without actually putting them in serious danger. We will most likely be using lamps and other low light lighting sources in our opening because we want there to be a dark atmosphere. We also were thinking about using a fog machine to further develop the felling we hope to achieve

These general concepts will be applied to our film opening. The specifics will be developed in further blog postings.

Week 1 Posting (Research)

      My group has decided upon doing horror as our genre for our film opening. I needed to find out what tactics are used in horror films. I found that horror films are scary because of 10 main aspects: fear of death, darkness, crawling things, traditionally scary places, disfigurement, dismemberment, suspense, spooky music, lightning/thunder, and the use of things that are not typically scary and editing them such as a clown or doll.

This base amount of research will help us plan out the set design. Overall, we will be going for a

suspenseful, dimly lit opening. The plot of the film opening hasn't been determined but this research will assist in accomplishing the main goal of a scary movie which is to cleverly invoke fear kn the viewer.

“The Top Ten Things That Make Horror Movies Scary.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201410/the-top-ten-things-make-horror-movies-scary.

a.  My group comprised of three people was tasked with creating an artist and a marketing plan for them that included a music video. We were given a song from an artist and we had to create an entirely new identity for the artist.

b.  We began to research case studies of bands in the same genre. This allowed for us to be able to create a marketing plan based on successful plans in practice. We also did research on the demographic for our genre and distribution methods. This allowed us to effectively market our artist.

c.  We created a website (https://giulilupica.wixsite.com/scarboy) that showcased all of our marketing creations which allowed us to give potential fans a place to find extra information if they pursued it. We also made social media accounts which will promote the artist by drawing attention to him via advertising. We also created a music video that promoted our song and artist. Below is a screenshot of part of our music video we created.

d.  I have learned many things from this project. The first is the group dynamic, communication makes the group members all satisfied with the final product. The second thing I learned was filming tactics to improve on. The main one is the stabilization of the camera. We filmed in very windy conditions so preparing for the filming conditions can definitely be utilized int the portfolio project. Overall, this project has been very effective in preparing me for the portfolio project.