Own Image Analysis

This is a strong image from the film Patrick (2013). I think that this is a strong image because it goes against the rise of modernism, in this image the car represents modernism, the house looks considerably bigger and more powerful than the car. This scene contains low-key lighting to set the overall mood of the opening section, this then allows the audience to predict the overall mood and outcome of the film. The use of an establishing shot allows the audience to explore the location; the location in which the clinic is in is a typical location for a horror film. The house is in an isolated location, and the house itself is old and aged, but it also hints towards the modern day with the use of building a more modern side of the house. The image is also taken from an expressionist angle, the high angle makes the car look tiny and inferior compared to the size of the house. The architecture of the house also looks very Gothic and fits in with old-style horror films. 

The History of Horror

Class Research: Favourite Type of Horror

My favourite type of horror sub-genre is psychological. This is because I do not like gore or action films as much as psychological films. 

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Stereotypical Fan

Stereotypical Fan

Psychological/Sci-Fi/Action Horror

Name: Luke Smith 
Occupation: Student

Luke Smith is an 18 year old student from a middle class background who is pyschographically a reformer. Defining his image, he wears causal dark clothing, very mature looking – facial/body hair and a deep voice. Doesn’t take life too seriously, works hard at college studying for AS Media Studies, Film Studies and Game Development. Besides college, Luke watches many horror films, plays grunge/rock music (nothing mainstream in terms of music) as well as playing video games and guitar – he also has an interest in reading comic books. He regularly socializes with his friends and spends time with his girlfriend who has the same interest – on weekends they have a couple of drinks and has a takeaway, like an ordinary teen. On the contrary, Luke doesn’t like romance films or anything Disney and he isn’t physically sportive.

In terms of his favourite films: Marvel/DC Films, mainstream horror films such as Woman in Black, Insidious, Paranormal Activity, Saw, Dale and Tucker, Zombieland, Panic Room and Fight Club are some of the films he enjoys watching.

The typical horror fan for our trailer for the film Cold Blood are old enough to watch the 18 rated films, but they’re also at the age in which the use of action and suspense will thrill and create adrenaline in them. As the film is rated 18, the overall target audience is of ages of 18 to 24. The male in the photo above represents this age demographic. Anybody over the age of 24 is still likely to enjoy the film, but is too use to the overused themes such as creepy nurseries and children, haunted houses, kidnap and such. Another reason this is the target audience is as the characters in the film represent these modern college students, giving them something to connect and relate too.

The typical fan attends college full time and has a wide range of friends to hang around with, this enables them to go out and socialize including to the cinema to watch the film. They enjoy gaming, alcohol, watching film, spending time with friends and their girlfriend, and pop culture as well as alternative.

Cold Blood

Group: Michelle Connop, Brad Lacey, Lauren Peace and Beth Quittenton

Choice of Trailer:

50% Highlights (Beginning) 50% Scene (Ending)

The beginning of the trailer catches attention of the viewers, making them react to the highlights of the film and become visually interested whereas the second half of the trailer is presented as a scene trailer, showing more of the main characters purpose and also a transformation scene ending on a jump scare. The highlights are to start the trailer off with a narrative and the scene is a slow montage which fastens up when the transformation is shown, ending on a jump scare.

Film Synopsis:

An 18 year old named Michael is a target for bullies and has been his whole life, at college he studies Science and dedicates his life to the study of reptiles and amphibians, also known as Herpetology. Michael studies Herpetology in his lessons and finds out that the creatures DNA includes Autotomy, allowing them to regrow cells and limbs. This drives him to the idea of experimenting with the DNA of the Reptiles and stealing important documents from his classroom allowing him to create a substance to give a human Lizard genetics. The idea of him changing humans into a more developed and intelligent life form leads him into kidnapping his former bullies and using them as victims of his experiments.

The results of these experiments always leave the victim tortured and killed, yet eventually Michael finds the error to his substance and fixes it, leading to the final victim which he chloroforms and kidnaps to a room in which he injects them. This victim is then feeling pain and feels as if he is burning and killing him yet as the substance kicks in, their newly developed Lizard DNA heals them, giving them features of a Lizard and transforming them into a beast. The DNA also changes the brain, making him forget what Michael has done and in fact siding with him.

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