I have used these images as they are the ideas that would be viewed in my opening two minutes. As you can see I followed the codes and conventions with the characters by having a man as the antagonist as men are stereotypically the dominant gender. We then have the young teenage girl who is known to be vulnerable giving off the mood to the audience that something bad is about to happen.This helps create suspense. I have used the images earphones, plastic bag and whistle as these are the props that my film will be based around to create an eerie and frightening effect. Finally I have put an image of a forest in my mood board as that is the setting of where my opening two minutes will be filmed. I have chosen a forest as it links with the codes ad conventions as it creates a horror atmosphere with a creepy effect adding and building up more tension.
For our film I decided to research some soundtracks to help me decide what kind of music would be best. I was looking for an intense soundtrack that reached a climax by going from slow to fast and quiet to loud. Once the climax was reached it would then go quiet until it was completely silent. Researching soundtracks also inspires me to what type of instruments would be most suitable for our film.
The first soundtrack I researched was Saw. I found Saw had many qualities that I was looking for in my film such as it having an inviting opening piece that draws you in straight away; it creates an eerie atmosphere and makes you feel uneasy like something is about to happen. As it carries on you get beats added, this is effective as it gives a rhythm to the soundtrack and gets the audience on the edge of their seat. Suddenly it goes quiet for a split second, tension builds up for the audience just until the beat drops. The music appears to be louder and faster which for us could represent this is when something bad happens. It contains fast beats which is suitable for our film as they could be added with the fast shots to help create the mood and have more suspense. The music then goes silent again and drifts off suggesting that the bad thing is over, this is where we would stop it. I like this soundtrack as it creates not only an eerie atmosphere but a mysterious effect which as a group is what we are looking for.
The second soundtrack I researched was The Conjuring. I didn't find this soundtrack as inviting as Saw or as suitable for my film. This is because I thought it struggled to build tension for the audience as the beginning gave off more of a shadow atmosphere that led to no big build that gets the audience on the edge of their seat. It was slow throughout which is not suitable for our film as we wanted a fast piece of music to represent the chase. In the middle the piece did get louder but didn't give off the atmosphere we were looking for. This piece was more creepy and represented possession as the Saw soundtrack could connote a chase leading to a death. However, the loud music in the middle attracted me as it drifted off into silence which is what we wanted. This is helpful as it will help us to incorporate bits of each piece to give off the perfect effect to the audience and fit our piece perfectly.
Our group then researched a variety of non copy right music to get an insight into what would fit our piece. We came across a useful website that let us select what type of genre we wanted which was horror. We then got asked what type of feel we wanted and we chose: Dark, Eerie, Unnerving, Mysterious and Suspenseful. After searching many soundtracks we came across one which appeal to us the most called 'Evening of Chaos'. The description of this piece included 'A semi-beautiful and flawed piano melody, which contrasts with industrial percussion. This piece has three distinct movements'. We found that this would fit perfectly as in our film we have 3 main pieces and the music fits perfectly. It starts off with a subtle and uneasing type of music that is very welcoming but creepy and eerie at the same time. As the audience are then drawn in slashes are added and the music starts to speed up creating tension for the audience. Bangs are then added to create a beat and rhythm which is extremely effective. A note is held in the background to build suspense. The fastness of the music draws the audience in even more until it goes silent building extreme amount of tension.The upbeat music could represent our chase as it has a lot of tension and will engage the audience. The music carries on getting faster and faster until it reaches the climax where we would we stop it giving the audience that relief and satisfation.
The U stands for Universal. A U film should be suitable for audiences aged four years and over. A U film can explore a wide rang of themes, as long as it is appropriate for a young audience. This doesn't mean that all films rated U are aimed at children.It just means they are suitable for any age and can be anybody's type. The genre would be positive giving off positive vibes for the audience.
PG stands for Parental Guidance. This means a film is suitable for general viewing.PG films are mostly appropriate for a child aged around eight or older without causing any problems. A PG film will not contain any theme which is inappropriate for a child and can even explore issues such as bullying or racism, advertising it in a more discreet way.
The 12A requires an adult to accompany any child under 12 seeing a 12A film at the cinema but when you are 12 you do not need to be accompanied and can go with friends, making the film more popular with a bigger audience. Strong language such as the f*** may be passed or changed to a 15 certificate but more moderate language such as b*** are more likely to be passed for 12 and 12A
At 12A, moderate violence is allowed but it should not contain a lot of detail meaning there should be no emphasis on injuries or blood. In 12A and 12 there may be sight of drugs but the scene or film should not concentrate around this area.
18 is the highest classification rating that is placed on films. Reasons for restricting films to the 18 certificate category have included scenes of hard drug use, supernatural horror, explicit sex, sadistic violence and sexual violence. This could cause the certificate not being issued at all, banning the film in the UK. In our group we will not involve all these conventions in such detail as if we aimed to get an 18 certificate it would limit our range of audience and the most popular audience which is 15 and above making our film less popular.
For our film we wish to make our certificate rating a 15 as it helps maximise our audience and making it more popular to a wider range of audience. We gave it a 15 as it will contain strong violence with the victim getting suffocated but we are not showing extreme gore or dwelling on the pain and injury so it will be a brief close up of the girl getting suffocated. Strong language will be used throughout our film to put emphasis on the man as the antagonist as it shows his dark side. At 15 there can be strong threat and horror as long as there is no sustained focus on sexualised threat which we do not contain. We felt we didn't need to rate in an 18 as we aren't containing extremely strong sex scenes or nudity allowing it to be more acceptable for 15's and overs.
