The context of my film sequence the lonely wood is about the journey of two friends exploring the woods after hearing of the strange happenings in the local news paper and want to investigate the mysterious events for themselves. I intend to show the audience the newspaper using a flashback.




My intended audience for this film to conform to people who are looking to be scared buy a horror film and want the film to send chills down their necks this is why a audience in the age group of 18 and over would most likely want to see a horror film. I plan for my film sequence to be of the horror genre so it will conform to the conventions of the horror genre, I will use mise en scene to convey the grim darkness of the scene, I will use dark damp patches of light to deliver the darkness of this sequence and to enstill fear into the audience. My sequence will use dark colours to further unsettle the audience and to conform to the conventions of the horror genre. I intend on having the 2 main characters being on opposite ends of intelligence to try and capture more people into the narrative of this sequence. I aim to make a sequence which draws an audience in and keeps the audience watching. I intend to use the stylistics which are common to horror films to give the audience what they want since a film cannot be its chosen genre unless it conforms to the conventions and stylistics that a typical audience expects from it. This sequence is intended to create fear and tension in the audience.

story board corrected rotation

storyboard images were upside down had to flip them.

horror genre conventions

realised this has never been posted i think.
Films in the horror genre are designed to elicit the emotions fear, disgust and horror from the audience. Horror films usually feature jump scenes which are purposely designed to make the audience jump and startled through the use of macabre and supernatural features. Macabre is used to emphasize the details and symbols of death. this causes frequent overlapping with the fantasy and sci-fi genres. The horror genre also frequently overlap with the thriller genre.

The horror genre deals with the viewers nightmares, their hidden worst fears, any revulsions and the terror of the unknown. But a sizable chunk of the horror genre focuses on the supernatural. Most films which contain a plot about serial killers, disease or virus breakout are usually defined to be in the horror genre. Its plots often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, mainly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world.
Some of the most common elements of horror films are; ghosts, torture, gore, werewolves, ancient curses, demons, vicious animals, vampires, haunted houses and zombies. When horror films use these elements they seem to have the best ability at scaring the viewer. Some elements scare other people more than others do because these elements have become convention most people tend to be scared of them.
What is defined as a horror film varies from decade to decade this is because people are harder to scare because a lot of the older horror films compared to some more modern horror films don’t seem to have as much gore in them. As time progresses horror films have to display more explicit gore, jump scenes/scares, and supernatural content. Horror films such as Psycho are now seen as thrillers instead of being a horror film like they were when they were originally released.
Horror films tend to be based on literature of the gothic/horror genre. The conventions of the horror genre are blood, death, killing, haunted houses and isolated settings, monsters, evil, weapons, darkness, storms, chase sequences, gore, violence, screams and ghosts. These create fear because they are not new ideas they are taken from peoples deepest fears, literature, and built up from some of the earliest horror films.

update

tried to put some footage onto the edit suite wouldn't work so i am going to try converting it at home into another format.
uploaded my storyboard onto the blog
posted my film influence videos again after i found out the embed code had stopped working
this week i have uploaded my storyboard.


edited my screenplay mainly to take out the camera descriptions and edits.
described in more detail on why george romeros night of the living dead (1968) influences my film sequence
 
added another film influence