Photo

This picture is a good example of using light lighting to make the characters shadow stand out. It makes the character look very intimidating and makes the gold club stand out. The way the character is holding the club makes him look very the threatening.

magazine Idea

Mockup Magazine cover

Possible mag pic

I saw it snowing outside and snow can be a main feature towards a horror film. So we took these pictures while we had the chance. At this stage the picture hasen't been edited at all. However I might make the background darker to make it look a lot scarier.

Empire Magazine

Idea for magazine cover

Slash Tag related to theorists

4 main film magazines

The images below are the 4 main film magazines on the market today. These magazines are Premiere, Total Film, Empire and Entertainment. All of the front covers main feature is the star they have on the front. The company's do this because this is the first thing the audience see. It's the visual syntax. They first look at the image, then he masthead, then the main headline. If somebody was a James Bond fan, they would choose Entertainment over any of the other 4 because of the picture.this is why the magazine company's spend lots of money to get the most famous person they can get on the cover. Another feature that attracts an audience is the colour of the magazine. Magazine company's work very hard to try and get the right colour for the right celebrity. Bullet grey is the perfect colour for James Bond as it matches the films personality. As you can see he shot type for each magazine is very different. Entertainment and Premier have gone for only having one character, this is because the films both follow one person (Iron Man and James Bond). The two other magazines have films that have more than one important character meaning they need more than one person on the cover. A lot of money and research goes into finding out what people look at when buying a magazine

Images of mask and knife

This is the picture of the mask that Nathan will be wearing when he goes on a mental rampage. The blood in this picture is obviously not blood but it is just an idea for a magazine cover. The image shows the mask, a phone and a knife, all of which have blood on them. This gives us a mix of the slasher side, horror side and the fact it is based around social media. This picture is taken on an iPad so the picture quality isn't as good as it could be. If we were going to use this image on a magazine front cover, we would make he blood much more realistic, have the whole knife in the picture and the phone screen will be visible and it will show our film logo so it looks good on magazine front covers. The background will also be different. We will change it to grass rather than wood and the lighting will be much darker. This will make it fit the horror genre much better.

Magazine Research

These are 3 different cinema magazine and are seen as the  most popular on the market today. The publishers want their audience to be engaged with whats on the front cover at first sight, to make this possible they use well known actors or odd pictures that look interesting. This is an idea that I will use to draw customers to watch my movie. For horrors, it is important to have something that people will recognise every time they see it, for example, Scream at the bottom right of the pictures. This is what I hope to do with my film having the white mask which is one of the main features of the film SlashTag. All the magazines are based on different types of horrors.

Example of a risk assessment for a film

unfriended trailer review

the trailer above is for the new horror film called unfriended. At the start of the trailer, a girl shoots herself because someone has posted something about her online that she was very ebarressed about. An annonamous account then haunts the people who they think poated the video. The story of unfriended is very similar to the story our film trailer we are creating, both films are a new genre of horror, social media/online horror. We can take a lot from the unfriended trailer as we are doing something very similar. this trailer can help us massively towards our end product.

Doms Character profile

This is Luke Hemming. He will be playing Dom in our film trialer. Dom is one of Scotts friends which makes him a sheep. He follows Scott around everywhere and joins in with all the bullying Scott does. This is another character Nathan will go after in the film. Dom will have a car in the trailer. This is something that we need to add to the prop list as it is used as a weapon in the film.

Possible music

This is a list of possible music for my film trailer. All the music is in the Genre R&B and has quite an aggressive tone. The music is associated with target audience. The people we want to come and watch our film will be interested in this type of music. Having this music on our trailer will grab the attention of our target market. The wolf of wall street trailer is a good example of this. There is a kanye West song on that trailer that attracts a teenage audience. As soon as the music comes on teenagers will hear it and focus on the trailer. This is the effect we are going for.

film summary

Film Summary:

-     Our film is called SlashTag, The slash section of the name is derived from the fact it’s a slasher horror and it rhymes with hash. Hash tag relates to social media, this has connection to the social media side to our films title, this is due to how our films plot revolves around the social networking aspect of our film

We called our film this because our film is about a boy called Nathan who becomes a psychopath due to intense bullyimg from his class mates, this eventually leads to him being tipped over the edge resulting in him becoming a slasher murderer. His methods of tormentation is using social networking sites to torment his victims, playing with their minds as he plots to kill them.

The film starts of with a 16-year-old boy called Nathan. Nathan is severely bullied by a 17-year-old boy called Scott and his gang of mates. Nathan hates school and finds it hard to get himself up and into school every day. One night after another day of being beaten up and scarred mentally by his classs mates he discovers social media and its power to watch, stalk and manipulate people.

This is when he realizes he can set up a fake account and torment his bullies online without them knowing who it is. Nathan starts to be very active on social media and starts to take the online harassing very far, by using extreme techniques and manipulation to get to the bullies, Nathan then starts to threaten his bullies with murder.

Nathan steals a white mask from the drama department at school, he uses this as a disguise to take the harassment of his school bullies even further. (This is the stage the audience will stop feeling sorry for Nathan and being scared of him). Nathan then goes after each bully one by one murdering one at a time, using various techniques of torture and death to kill them. Nathan violently kills each bully until he gets to Scott. The main person who has been making his life an utter misery. He makes Scott suffer more than any of the others; this is why he left him until last.

Nathan then realises what he has done and takes his own life. The worry of the consequences of what he had just done was too much for him as he couldn’t cope with the guilt, pressure and his own self after what he had done.