Wednesday, 25 April 2012

BBFC Research

This is the film poster for Silent hill. BBFC rated this movie a 15 they say "it contains bloody horror and strang language" I agree on this because this movie is very violent especilly on the scene when one of the creatures rips all of this womans skin off. That scene is very bloody.





This is the film poster for Paranormal Activity 3 BBFC rated this film a 15. BBFC say "The use of strong language (for example, 'fuck') must be infrequent'. This film contains about ten uses of strong language and is therefore more appropriately placed at 15" This film also Contains threat, infrequent sex references & violence. I agree with this because you cant see the threat and this film is very violent especially the scene when the threat is dragging the baby by its feet.



This is the film poster for The Thing. BBFC rated this film a 18. BBFC says "The shape-shifting nature of the alien in the film is depicted through shots of bleeding heads, an alien head exploding out of a stomach" &"The film includes scenes of strong violence and gory horror" This film also contains Strong language and should deffenitly be rated an 18.
By looking at these films i agree that our film should was rated correctly and should stay a 15 since the majority of phycological horrors these days are 15 and also there is no strong language.

Advertisement Campaign

The places and websites my poster and trailer will appear are on Most viewed websites such as Youtube. On youtube people will see the trailer and they would tell other people about it therefor the word would spread around. My poster will also appear on facebook and Twitter since being a social networking people will see it and would want to go see it. The Trailer would come out a couple of weeks before the film actually releases since being an indepentend film company we havnt got enough money to let the trailer play for a long period of time. The film that will procced ofter our trailer is played would be big hollywood blockbusters such as Cabin In The Woods also being a horror and Prometheus again another horror.

Audience and ratings


Silent hill -  silent hill has been given a 15 rating by the BBFC this is probably because of the horror shown and pain inflicted by burning alive, but the BBFC say "Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury" According to IMDB the average user rating of this film is 6.5 from 90,519 users.


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The shining- The shining has a 15 rating from the BBFC this is due to the fact that there is no real gore apart from the two dead girls and blood running from the lift, there is also a scene where a mans suicide is described the BBFC say "Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied" According to IMDB the average user rating for this film is  8.5 from 261,750 users.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b726feAhdU












Dark water - Dark water  has been given a 15 rating this is because of the dark nature off the film and also the ending to the film has some confusion to wether or not the lead actress commits suicide the BBFC say "Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied" The average user rating from IMDB is 5.6 from 26,971 users

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t24DuU9TXRM



















The eye -  The eye was given a 15 rateing by the BBFC this is probably due to the fact that the film shows sceens of suicide and dwells on the infliction of pain and injury, there are also gorey sections that are not allowed by 12 or 12A certificetes. The eye go a  5.2  rateing from 24,482 users on IMDB.




 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOxzXVGaEY8


















The rite - The rite was given a 15 rating by the BBFC i belive this to be because of disturbing and gorey imagery that isnt shown in the trailor but i belive is shown in the film. the BBFC say "Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised" the  film shows a strong threat. On IMDB the rite got 5.9 from 37,801 users.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhHnP-9iekg

Monday, 23 April 2012

Movie Poster for Static

This is the poster i made for our film 'Static' To make this poster i used Photoshop i made the poster all black to give it the effect it was at night and also i think having the static in the middle of the poster gives it a scary effect. I also thought if i added a scary frase in the poster 'You're Next' the audience would be more intrested into watch it. When people see the colour black the first thing people would think of is darkness and the unknown therfore this would atrract the audience even more to want to go this film.

Evaluation Q1

This is the logo of our film opening logo. This title develops horror conventions since its in red and black with a scary effect and with blood on the backgroud defiantly sowing that the films going to be a horror. You can compare this image with the image beneath (Twisted Pictures) by showing that they both give the effect of the film being a horror.










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This Picture inspires me because its simple but then it gets a scary affect with the barbed wire and changes it completely. This picture is developing horror conventions since it has a barbed wire going through the letters which gives it a scary effect. 




This is the Title of our film. This title is developing horror conventions since the whole image is quite dark and confusing since the audience wouldn't know what it would be about all they would see is a dark tv screen with scary shades and the word "Static" in a scary sketchy way this this shows that who ever would see this would definitely think this is a horror film. This can be compared to the image below (SILENT HILL) since they both come under the horror genre and there both have a scary affect which will attract the audience to go and see the film.




This is the title form the film "Silent Hill" This picture inspired me because the the words of this picture are all different and the font is quite scary what tops it off it that the background makes it look like its a old rusty which gives a hint of the location of the film and what it would be about. This is developing horror conventions since its visually scary and every single piece of the picture makes it look like a horror and would definitely attract the audience to go and see this horror.








This is a picture of our film we made. This picture is developing horror conventions since it has a dead person on frame this obviously tells you that the genre of this film is a horror . This can be compared with the image below(silent hill) by both of these images having a dead body in frame and both telling the audience that this is a horror film.











This is a picture is from the film "silent hill" This picture inspired me because it shows a dead body hanged up onto a fence in a pitch black room with many flesh wounds and i knew it would attract allot of audiences . This is visually scary just by looking at it. This picture is developing horror conventions since there is a dead body on the screen which gives the viewers a shocking affect.






This is a image of our film "static" showing the established characters. As we can see here there are 2 girls which are young and also being female there vulnerable This image comes under developing horror conversions since the 2 girls are vulnerable. This can be compared to the picture below (silent hill) because both pictures use two vulnerable girls.











This is a picture from the film"silent hill" this picture shows 2 girls looking scared once again vulnerable and gives he effect that someone is there trying t kill them also what they are wearing and the props used  look like they are defending themselfs from something scary. This comes under developing horror conventions since they both female and they look vulnerable.






This is a picture from our film 'Static' this picture establishes mise-en-scene.this picture also challenges the convention of my sub genere since it leads to the girls getting killed at the end and by looking at this picture you can see that the girls are drinking so the audience would asume that there going out for a party. 




This is a picture of the film 'silent hill' in this picture you can see the prop used at the start of the film. This picture establishes mise-en-scene.
This picture develops the conventions of horror because the sign used is old and spooky and as soon as you would see it you would know that the film is a horror














  1. These 4 pictures are key images of the film we recorded called 'Staic' the top 2 images challenge the conventions of horror while the bottom 2 develops it.the top 2 challenge it becuse it leads to the killing and there getting ready to go out to a party and you yet wont expect the film being a horror. The bottom to develop conventions of horror by showing people dead these are the victims of the killer inside the tv anyone who will see this will know that this film i a horror.




These are the key imges from the film 'silent hill' these 4 pictures are developing horror conventions since you see people getting killed and weird creatures. By looking at these pictures you can clearly tell that this is a horror film.

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

A clip designed to reach my target audience


Our target audience are males aged 18- 29, even though the film is a 15 our IMDB reaserch said that the audience that watched phycolgical horrors where males aged 18- 29. So we made the opening look attractive to this audience we did this firstly by useing teenage girls because men are pulled in with haveing women actors. Secondly we added in the drinking alcohol because a large amount of men aged 18- 29 are at univesity living the "student life" which involves lots of drinking, we belived showing them this would give it a sence of normality.

Filmed evaluation of STATIC