Brainstorming

Ideas

By Sarah Divilly

Who are you working with?

• I am going to work with Amy and Weronkia. The reasons why I am going to do my media coursework with them because they are my friends, they are in my media class as well as they did GCSE media so they are experienced in filming and editing.

• We might have problems working together, because we could get distracted as well as lose focus on the main task. However we will overcome these problems, by giving equal tasks to each other as well as managing our time.

Ideas of our opening sequence

Horror – Through our research we discovered a great slides show

(http://www.slideshare.net/marine18/horror-genre-conventions) From this we

learnt about the conventions of a horror film would be a dark, isolated,

gloomy settings which would have an impact on the audience.

Our ideas

Characters

Plot

Settings

Sound

Techniques

• Urban environments

• Dark, gloomy, lonely settings

• Locations:- graveyard, train

station, abandoned house and church.

• High and low angles- To connote fear

• POV (Point Of View) shot this allows you to look through the eyes of the character

• Behind shoulder shot

Little girl dies because she drowns, mum blames herself of the accident- grieves eventually drives the mum insane and she kills herself.

A 13 year old girl called Hope. • Brown Hair, hazel

eyes • Floral white dress, no

shoes

• Diegetic and non-diegetic sound

• Dramatic, tension building sound.

Production NamesFounded in 1913 by William Fox, the studio had begun producing

the famous Movietone Newsreels (the precursor of today's network

newscasts) even before they moved to their current location.

Fox had opened their studios in Century City in 1928, on land

which used to be the personal ranch of Western movie star

Tom Mix. Seven years later, Fox merged with Twentieth Century

Pictures (which had been founded in 1933 by Daryll Zanuck, after

he left Warner Brothers), and the company became 20th Century

Fox in 1935.

On this day, May 8th, in 1912, Paramount Pictures was founded as the

Famous Players Film Company. The Famous Players Film Company

initially focused on creating full-length films with the leading theatrical

names of the time in hopes of gaining middle class appeal. Famous

Players Films were first released through the Paramount Pictures

Corporation start-up company. Famous Films eventually took on the

Paramount name in 1914 and became the first successful nation-wide

film distribution company.

Production Names

Production

Names

Ideas

In Time

Productions • This project is

done over a long

period of time

and IN TIME will

be completed.

• Secondly, the

mother’s grieving

will past IN TIME.

Worldwide• As grieve

happens to every

once in their lives

• Our moving

opening, can

affect people

WorldWide and

have a long

lasting impact on

them.

ASW productions• We would call it SAW productions as this is

our initials (Sarah, Amy and Weronika)

• Relating this to our opening , the Mother

SAW her daughter drown and couldn’t do

anything about it.

SlogansFrom the website ‘http://www.taglineguru.com/moviesurvey.html’ I accessed,

taglines/ slogans from all different films genres of films and are marked by this

criteria:

Suitability: How well does the tagline capture the central theme, appeal, or essence

of the film?

Creativity: Is the tagline clever, playful, humorous, ironic, etc. – expressing its

message in a fun and creative way?

Originality: Is the tagline surprising, disarming, or uncommon – revealing a unique

or unusual attitude or point of view?

Memorability: Does the tagline demonstrate an ability to influence popular culture

and language?

No mercy. No shame. No sequel- Scary Movie (2000)

The tagline reads "No mercy. No shame. No sequel.", the last reference being an ironic nod towards the tendency of popular horror movies becoming cash cow franchises. The film was originally titled "Last Summer I Screamed Because Halloween Fell on Friday the 13th". Scary Movie was followed by four more sequels Scary Movie 2 (2001), Scary Movie 3 (2003), Scary Movie 4 (2006) and Scary Movie 5(2013).[1] Its title serves as a homage to the production title of Scream, which was also released through Dimension Films.

SlogansSuccess didn’t go to his head, it went to his neighbour. – Envy (2004)

What’s eating you? – Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Slogan Ideas

‘The last breathe you took, was my

last memory’

‘When will your

last breathe be?’

‘Loneliness thrives off insanity’

‘ What would you

do?’ Yet again, we decided to

use another rhetorical

question, to directly ask

the audience as well as

make them think what

they would do if they was

in the mother’ s shoes.

However, this slogan relates to the film

because the mother losing her little girl,

in such a tragic death in her own home;

the mother’s life becomes so

unbearable to not wake up everyday to

her daughter drives her insane which

eventually she kills herself.

This slogan suggests that when the daughter

died that was the last memory that the mother

had of her daughter as the mother forgot

everything but her daughter's death which she

feels responsible for and grieve controls her

life.

We like the use for this rhetorical

question, as we want the

audience to feel as if we are

asking them, when they know

they are doing to die- they don’t.

This slogan, relates to the film

as the Mother did not know that

was going to be her daughter’s

last breathe.

Film Titles

Film Titles

AnticipationHigh Hopes

The desire

of Hope

Hope’s Anticipation

The Lost and Forgotten

Lost

Final DismissalChild

The Nightmare

Through group discussion, we created this brain storm. As a group we decided

that our film, should be called ‘High Hopes’ as it links back to the story as well

as that the parents have high Hopes, to find who murdered their 13 year old

daughter.

Actors My actors are going to my friends from A-

level Drama, as they can adapted to the

role easily as well as play their role to

the best of their ability, therefore

portray the characters how we want them

to be represented by the audience.

Although, they are my friends therefore

we might get distracted, while filming.

However, as they are professional A-level

students they will focus on their

character, so they will not become

distracted because, they will take their

role seriously.

Stereotypical Characters-

Female Victim Portrayed as

vulnerable,

need of

protection,

stupid as well

as annoying.

The

representation

of women

portrayed in

this light is

from the

sexiest era. When this character

is killed, it is

usually gruesome or

graphic.

This character

helps builds

suspension in

the audience

sometimes will

be killed

Her behaviour often

puts the audience on

edge and

jumps, whenever she

does.

Stereotypical Characters-

Non- Believer

Portrayed as cocky as

well as

arrogant, convincing

the other characters

that they are

overacting over

nothing.

Lead them to being

killed first, they

are often triggers

other characters

death.

To begin the

audience will

listen to this

voice as a reason

and reassured

therefore be

slightly calm.

Shortly killed after, the

audience panic and all

sense of security is lost

and the audience don’t

feel safe anymore.

Stereotypical Characters-

Hero

Majority of the

time it’s a

male, strong, masc

uline build

He tends to be the

brave character

and goes after the

murderer, often

never returns

Majority of

these

characters show

little emotion

throughout the

film stay

strong and

supportive of

the other

characters.

In modern horror films, they have

decided to challenge the

stereotypical representation of

the Hero. As in some horror

films, which challenges the

older, more traditional

conventions and makes the story

less predictable.

Stereotypical Character-

Hysterical Character

Usually female

character

Usually known

for not wanting

to leave the

building. From

witnessing a

murder of their

friend, as a

result she

usually breaks

down as well as

becomes upset.

Permission Forms

Permission Forms

Permission Forms

Stereotypical Characters-

Non- Believer

Stereotypical Characters-

Non- Believer

Character Profile- Hope Gate

Character Profile- Michelle Gate

Michelle Gate, is a 35 year old year house wife and a secret alcoholic. She has been married to Parker Gate, for 5 years however Parker had a secret 2 year affaire, with his ex work colleague, which has just only been exposed recently- that is why Michelle abuses drink. Michelle, is the youngest in her family she had an older brother who unfortunately died in a plane accident on New Years. Michelle is from London, she has lived there her whole life. She is from a middle class background , she went to a public school. She was a nurse for many years, working in ‘Kings College’, but decided to quit for a unknown reason.

Character Profile- Parker Gate