Thursday 28 January 2016


These are the results of our questionnaire researching which movie title best appeals to our audience. As we can see the majority chose Inhabitant as the  most appealing title where as the other film title ideas got less than 50% of votes and one of our film title idea "Chained" didn't even get any! which means we definitely wont consider using that as our film title.  

Monday 25 January 2016

 20th CENTURY FO

20th century Fox is a major American film studio and Distributor. Located in the Century city area of Los Angles, just west of Beverly Hills. 20th Century Fox has distributed famous film series, including the first two Star wars trilogies, Ice age, Diary of a wimpy kid, Maze runner, Xmen, Die hard ,Home alone, Planet of apes, Night in the museum, Taken, Fantastic four, Alien, Predator,Rio  and Alvin and the chipmunks. The studio is also credited for distributing James Camerons Avatar and Titanic, the highest and second highest grossing films respectively at the box-office not adjusted for inflation. Television series produced by Fox include The Simpsons,Family guy ,Bobs burgers,Bones, Buffy the vampire slayer, American Dad ,How I met your mother Glee, Modern family, EmpireMalcolm in the middle, New girl and many more. Among the most famous actresses to come out of this studio were Shirley Temple, who was 20th Century Fox's first film star, Alice FayeBetty GrableGene TierneyMarilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.

Tuesday 19 January 2016

Step Brothers Opening Scene

 https://youtu.be/Sczh_KjjFNU  In this opening scene of Step brothers the  Film institution and associations credits are seen in white writing in a pencil drawn looking font.These come before the scene starts however there is a sound bridge in the background of the shot of the credits as you can hear rustling of packets and crisps falling on a glass plate and then  the credits in the black out disappear and we are introduced to the first scene a close up shot of a mans sprinkling cheese over Doritos on a plate. An up beat background Music then starts playing along side the scenes of Both of the brothers doing activities in each of their homes and while the movie is playing  The credits are seen on the side of the screen in bold whit font, With the stars names and more. I really like how their credits are represented in this opening scene this could be a useful way of showing the credits on our film.

Monday 18 January 2016



This is the film title we intend our film to have "Inhabitant" this word suggests something or some one who lives in a place. This links in with the story plot of our film as there is supernatural being living with in the same household as the couple in this film.This title is effective in making our target audience curious as to who or what is living and where. The font of it will be bold in either black or white so that it catches the readers eye and as these two colors have very different connotations.  This is a practice of different fonts which connote the genre of horror .
inhabitant
ɪnˈhabɪt(ə)nt/
noun
noun: inhabitant; plural noun: inhabitants
  1. a person or animal that lives in or occupies a place.
    synonyms:residentoccupantoccupier, dweller, settlerMore
    • US
      a person who fulfils the residential or legal requirements for being a member of a state or parish.

30 Minutes of Horror - music instrumental (no copyright 2014)

This is the kind of music that we are intending to use in our film as it fits in with the atmosphere we are trying to create  in the first scene in the attic which is of fear, tension and suspense. This music is non copy right which allows us to use it, in the beginning of this music the instruments like the piano and violin are played very slowly, it creates an eerie and grim tone  the sudden bangs from a drum that are heard every so often are also very effective when leading up to a climax indicating that something is going to happen in that scene.

Friday 15 January 2016

 The font used in the recent Paranormal activity films is in bold red and the letters are also fuzzy connoting video tape recordings. The BOLD color red is very commonly used in horror film titles as it connotes conventional horror things such as Danger,blood,anger, it is a very intense color and the black back ground makes it stand out more.The use of the color black in the background also connotes danger,mystery,evil,fear and death. So this title immediately suggests that what genre the film is therefore appealing to specific target audience.

Monday 11 January 2016

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 Draft of our opening for our film INHABITANT.

Last Minute makeup for film



In order to accomplish the look of a young malnourished girl who has been deprived of water and sunlight, we went for a roughed up dirty look, which was done by using dark eye shadow around the eyes and nose, along with red and purple colors to portray bruising. We also used a range of lipsticks to show dry and fresh blood around the mouth area, this indicates the vicious eating behavior the girl has, and also suggests she eats some sort of meat...possibly human.

Tuesday 5 January 2016

                        Script 


Setting: Inside House where the story takes place.
(A young couple are unpacking boxes as they settle into their new house)
scene begins with hand shot footage suggesting it is a home movie as the shot has random movement.  .
Ellie (while moving the camera around) "Wait...how does this work again how do you focus on this camera...oh wait I got it"
cuts to a medium shot of Monica(Ellie's partner) in a room kneeling in front of boxes.
Ellie"There she is! (laughs) say hi to the camera"
Monica:(while laughing) "what are you doing with that?"
Ellie"Aww look at you unpacking you look beautiful "(laughs)
Monica: (while holding up her index finger to the camera) "Day one moving into our new house!"
Ellie " we are moving in finally and just look at her shes so happy !"
Monica "You know you should really be helping me unpack" (glares at Ellie disapprovingly)
Ellie "yeah yeah" "I'l help later"
Ellie "first lest admire this beauty" Says jokingly (Laughs)while coming closer to Monica with the camera
Monica:(picks up Green box by her side and stands up with it while looking directly at the camera smirking) "Babe this box goes up in the attic can you put it up there?" (extends green box towards the camera)
Ellie:"yeah sure.. let me just zoom into your pretty face"(laughs)
Monica (while laughing pushes hand into camera lenses "Oh Stooooop"
Black out to show home video footage ending and pass of time.
camera cuts to a medium shot done by camera on a tripod to keep the camera steady, medium shot from behind Ellie standing looking up at the latch door of the Attic above her. Ellie picks up a long stick beside her with a hook at the end of it and extends it to the latch door of the attic above her.
Camera cuts to low angled shot from the side of Ellie as she opens the latch door and it swings down.
Ellie extends Stick to the attic and pulls down the metal stairs. (Sound of the layers of the metal stairs scrapping past each other is heard)
camera cuts back to a medium shot from behind Ellie as she grabs the camera beside her and puts the strap of it around her neck indicating that she is going to film the attic. Ellie cautiously climbs up the ladder. Camera shot switches to a hand filmed footage as the shot is quite shaky depending on the movements of the person filming , this suggest to the audience that Ellie is filming the attic by hand with her camera.  Cuts to a panning shot as the camera pans from left to right analyzing the dim lit attic, revealing boxes and blankets and cluttered objects.
Ellie:"so this is our new Attic then ?"
a light switch sound is heard as if some one had just switched the lights off and the light is turned off so that the camera sees pitch black darkness.
Ellie:"woah what? Hey! Monica?.. what happened?"
Ellie:"SHIT!"
Camera is shaking about as if the character is moving their hands, camera then stills and focuses on a close up shot of Ellie's hand holding her Mobile phone in front of the camera, we see her turn on the torch setting on her mobile indicating to the audience that she is going to use the torch on her Mobile phone as a source of light so that she can see. This small source of light creates tension for the audience as you can only so much with a torch you are only revealed what ever direction you shine the torch to but not all of your surroundings is shown.
Camera then pans up along with the torch that Ellie holds up,
(Non diegetic incidental background music starts to play, the music is accelerating and eerie this creates tension in the scene and adds to the acceleration  indicating to the audience that the music is leading up to a climax making us feel scared for the character as something might happen to her)
Camera slowly pans to the right according to Ellie's movement of the torch.
Ellie:"What the hell?" shinning torch to the wall in the attic where a metal chain is hanging
(Volume of the background music increases and quickens to accelerate the scene)
Camera slowly pans to right where the torch shines on a Strange looking figure dressed in white in the corner of the shot. Shot lasts 1 second in total
Ellie(gasps) (while dropping camera to the floor)
Sound: rapid panting is heard from Ellie as well as tapping sounds on the floor of the attic suggesting that Ellie is feeling the floor for the camera and her torch.
Music accelerates and volume increases suggesting it is leading up to the climax quickly causing tension and suspense.
Ellie:"shit, shit!!"
Camera is picked up and quickly pans up along with the torch in a low angled shot of The strange figure suddenly pouncing at the camera lens. to create the "pop up" effect.
Sound:background music reaches the peek of its climax as the figure pops up in the shot to cause a greater impact.
Ellie:screams
Black out
Text along side the screen reads "Inhabitant" in BOLD font.