More Preliminary research on the major task, My partner Kim and I have agreed that we are doing a subgenre of horror; found footage documentary.
While we are getting our ideas together I will research some found footage that I've watched, as well as a movie Kim told me to watch. Again I'll be organizing this information into conventions, tropes, cliches, and things I'll take away from this research.
Inspiration Text Two: Hell House LLC
Details: Hell House LLC, directed by Stephan Cognnetti. Made in 2015 staring Gore Adams, Alice Bahlke, Danny Bellini a found footage horror movie.
Conventions: Music that has an eerie tone, building suspense. The music/soundtracks of horror trailers really set the tone of the film and give the viewers watching a nervous feel. Found footage horror movies however are always of course is filmed by the cast and has shaky camera movements that are usually in 1st person view./POV shots.
Tropes: Horror movie genres always have jump scares, or at least one. Horror films also always have horrifying backgrounds or a more complex plot that we see in trailers.
Clichés: The “dumb one” always running in the opposite direction of safety or loosing all common sense when in a scary situation. In horror movies at least one of the main cast either comes possessed or dies or gets haunted in the end.
Takeaways: I’ll be doing found footage horror, so taking
aspects of my favorite found footage horror movie would be best to analyze. The
movie does a great job of being horrifying without the use of many jump scares.
The main thing about found footage is the majority of the film is from the characters point of view, making it more intimate for audiences seeing their perspective of everything that is happening. In found footage, these films are shot in a more realistic and grounded manner than a slasher or another type of supernatural movie. Found footage makes demonic activity looks almost realistic.
The picture to the right dictates one of the characters talking to the audience or the people who are watching it, breaking the forth wall and showing the movie from their explained perspective.
Another movie I'll research, which happens to be the one my director recommended is called grave encounters, a very popular found footage documentary.
Details: Grave Encounters movie, directed by Colin Minihan and made in 2011 staring Benjamin Wilkinson, Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko is also a found footage horror movie.
Conventions: Music that has an eerie tone, building suspense. The music/soundtracks of horror trailers really set the tone of the film and give the viewers watching a nervous feel. Found footage horror movies however are always of course is filmed by the cast and has shaky camera movements that are usually in 1st person view./POV shots.
Tropes: Horror movie genres always have jump scares, or at least one. Horror films also always have horrifying backgrounds or a more complex plot that we see in trailers.
Clichés: The “dumb one” always running in the opposite direction of safety or loosing all common sense when in a scary situation. In horror movies at least one of the main cast either comes possessed or dies or gets haunted in the end.
Takeaways: Similar to LLC, ill be referencing this since I’m
doing a found footage horror movie. This specific movie though has exactly the
‘format’ of plot we want to do, with the character roles and starting off as a
goofy little film before things start to get serious. Analyzing these will help
me prepare for the major task of film promotion/trailers.
I feel I have a basic understanding of the major task in the genre I want to focus in, now I'll be focusing on another genre and my minor task research!
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