Wednesday, 5 April 2017

Final horror film trailer idea and how our research into existing horror text and media theory affected our proposed idea.

Final horror film idea:
Out final chosen idea for a horror films and what we are going to make a trailer for is a paranormal
horror film called 'The Reedham Reaping'. This is idea three of the individual group ideas. The name of our horror film come form the location that the trail will be filmed in which is 'Reedham'

The 'The Reedham Reaping' is all about a couple that finally buys their dream house together in a small village. The one way they where able to do this was because of how cheap the house was. The house was said to be haunted by a little girl who was stabbed to death by her own dad in 1796. The couple move in and strange things start to happen. Doors start to bang and things start to go missing. As things start to get worse the spirit of the little girl start to try and harm the new owners of the house. She locks all the doors and slashers the car tires so the new owner can't escape. But will she kill the owner or will they escape?

Charters will include:
Sara(age 25)- Sara is one of the main protagonist she is Roberts girlfriend. Sara is a smart and strong individual women who notices straight away that there is something wrong with this house. She has long brown hair and bright blue eyes. She as always dreamed of moving into her own home in the country.

Robert (age 26)- Robert is Sara's boy friend and is another main protagonist. He is strong and smart with a good job. He believes in nothing supernatural until he finally see's the little girl. Robert and Sara met when they where 17 and have been together since. Robert is tall and skinny with dark brown hair

Martha (age 10)- Martha birthday was the 21st of June 1796 the same day that he died. Her dad was very controlling and one night he lost control and killed her. She is the evil in the film as she is trying to hurt the new owners of her old house. She always wears the same white blood stained dress the same dress that is was killed in.

The narrative theory and other theorist that have had an affect on our final idea:
We have chosen to follow Todorov theory and follow his three act structure. Even tho we will not show this in the horror film trailer so we don't give too much away in the trailer. The equilibrium will be them moving into there new house together finally they are escaping for the city. The initial equilibrium in the film is when the spirit starts to be know in the house. This then starts a series of events  that leads to the new equilibrium. The new equilibrium is them fighting back to the evil and getting out of the house alive.

The film will have strong character types this will also be shown in the horror film trailer. We will follow Vladimir Propp 8 character types. Form the villain, hero,  princess. We will also follow Claude Levi-Strauss how looked into binary opposition. We will show a clear good vs evil/known to unknown.

We have not included the 'male glaze' we did this as we did not want to degrade women in our horror film or trailer. We want our character Sara to be strong charter that doesn't just look to man for help. Looking into the male gaze we belive in the modern day we did not need to include to. We want people to be attracted to the theme and story line of our film and not the women. 

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