Scirpt further adjustments

We made a few changes to the script last time I posted because when we were filming we found more appropriate words to use whilst filming.

Scene 4:

Kenny whispers, under his breath to Ash

"i can see you"

"I've got you now"

Scene 7:

T (angrily)

"what the hell is this..."

T: (showing Kenny the book- shouting)

"what the fuck is this?

T punches Kenny

Scene 10:

Ash: "T, where you taking me"

T: "we need to get away from this pycho"

Ash: "where we going to go?"
T: "lets go to the forest, for the weekend"

Ash: "Ok"

Scene 19:

T to Kenny

"please don't take me, just take the girl"

Kenny: "you've got 5 minutes to be gone"

Scene 22:

Kenny with higher authority over T, cutting out T's tattoo says:

"there's no need for that no more"

Scene 25:

Kenny engraving Ash' name in his arm

"she's mine now'

Media Essay "The Blaire Witch Project"

'The Blair Witch Project' is a very unique horror film because of it is set out as a documentary but it still create's fear towards an audience. 'The Blair Witch Project' has pioneered a new sub genre into the horror genre bringing both docementary and horror into one film. The film has the same techniques as other horror films bringing monsters or people with a serious mental disorder and brings a pschological theme by making them lost in the forest thinking how to escape the horror scene. Through this essay i will be talking about the rules of the genre, the narrative of the film such as filming with a hand held camera, film techniquessuch as point of view shots, iconography, how they distribute the film and how 'The Blair Witch Project influenced towards my trailer.

The rules of the horror genre are to try and change your emotions to fear and make you jump and startled during the jump scenes. The way 'The Blair Witch Project' relates with the horror genre is by filming it as a documentary format/style to make it more realistic. 'The Blair Witch Project' has imagination of the creatue but makes it more realistic by getting public to speak out about the monster, to make the flim creepier to the audience. This bring chills into an audience spine because the public is speaking about casually in person so it leave the viewrs second guessing thinking is this true or just a fantasy.


The way the narrative of the film works with the genre of horror is by making it realistic as possible to still bring fear to viewers and not to make it as an American blockbuster film. First of all the narrative of the film is to make it a documentary of the film is about the footage of the film found but the people that created the footage have not been found. In the open scene that shows this dialogue, the audience start to be more curious of what this film has to offer and with leaving the audience second guessing of what going to happen will make them more anxious to what's to come.

Although, 'The Blair Witch Project' film techniques are very clever and unique than other horror films because it makes the film look natural, it only uses two types of camera (handheld camera to film their own and also the filming camera for the film). You don't see this a lot in the horror genre because most horror films won't generalise who the camera man is so most films want to be professional wheras, 'The Blair Witch Project' wanted to make it amateurish to bring more realism to the film. Another technique they used is the black screen effect. This bring a scary mood to the audience because loosing sense like your eyes is quite scary and also you will need to use your other senses trying to figure out what is going on.

The iconography in the film 'The Blair Witch Project' are the scariest and could leave fears in the back of your mind. For example, in the film the woman found some teeth on the floor the day after their friend goes missing. You would see this sort of sinister ideas from a horror films to make the audience scared thinking they are real and thinking it's their friends teeth. Aonther example that made me get shivers down my back would be the evidence people gave in the town that came true through the film. This is very familar towards horror films when they leave clues to the missing puzzle of the mystery in the end of films. For example, 'Scooby Doo' use this method in every one of their episode and this relate to horror films because Scooby Doo is a cartoon version of horror films relating the same monster or actions in other horror films. So this gives the audience more of an understanding through the film not missing anything out for example, one town member talked about the house and it came true, another would be a person standing in the corner, one person stated and another said the Witch leaves rocks around the next person it kills but these are just beliefs and rumours. This I found scary because the movie makes you believe it is real but it was just actors acting but they made so realistic.

The marketing of the film is not the same as other films. For one, you don't see the creature so they won't merchandise toys or custumes for Halloween so have missed out on making childish figure. On the other hand, they have made the website about the film further so it makes people shiver when they think about the film again. The website gives you so much it's hard not to think "was that real, id that really happen". Further information like the history of the 'Witch' and the situation between the last footage and the period of turning it into the movie. The point of the website is to keep the movie alive in people mindsand also market the DVD at the same time.

Feedback from the Essay

• Needed to expand towards my point



• Be more specific in some places



• Try to make sure this essay makes sense throughout

Narrative Structure

Inciting incident: When T sees Kenny's diary and finds out that his roommate is fanatically obsessed with his girlfriend Ash.

Protagonist: Kenny in the protagonist in the beginning. However later in the story, Ash becomes our protagonist as story is told from her point of view.

Objective: Kenny gets the girl he is in love with.

First act/ Second act transition: The couple going off to the woods.

Internal Obstacle: Kenny is not as popular as T. He is shy, timid and his personality is stopping him from getting the girl of his dreams.

External Obstacle: Troy. He is confident, aggressive and popular. He is everything a girl lie Ash wants.

Climax: Kenny is chasing the couple. Troy decides he doesn't need Ash and is not willing to die because of loving her.

Dramatic Answer: No (Kenny does not get the girl)

Twist: Ash find out about Troy's betrayal. She decides to take control over the situation and becomes stronger and independent of Troy. There is a protagonist shift from Kenny to Ash.

Ash's objective: She doesn't want to be with either of them. She want a revenge.

Third act: They are in the forest, chasing around, trying to kill each other.

Third act climax: Ashley pretends she loves Kenny in order to survive. She helps him kill Troy. At the end she kills Kenny.

Dramatic answer: Yes. Ashley achieves her objective to survive and get out of the forest.

Script

Shot 2:
Friends calling out at each other, voices of conversations... words not fully clear
"you coming to the party on Saturday"
"course, its gonna be so cool"
"hey you alright?"
"where you going after this lecture"
Shot 4:
Kenny whispers, under his breath to Ash
"i can see you"
"i've got you now"

Shooting Schedule

Props:
Hooded jacket and balaclava for kenny
Kenny's camera
Kenny's diary and Ash's pictures
The car
Actors:
... as T (Troy)
... as Kenny
... as Ash (Ashley)
Locations:
The University
The car park
In Kenny's bedroom
In the car, on the way
At the forest

Character Profile

Character Profile
Name: T (Troy)
Age: 19
Occupation: University Student
Appearance: Rough looking, attractive, tall, muscular, big chains, ear piercing, always wears a hat, baggy jeans and tattoo on neck of Ashley.
Personality: Masculine, rude, aggressive, confident and vain
Likes: Football, girls, parties, smoking, drinking and loud music
Dislikes: Studying, people different to him, living with others
Typical phrase: "I'm just living my life" "you wish you were like me"
Extra info: Disorganised, upper class, football scholarship, always has a cigarette in hand and talks in slang.
Name: Ash (Ashley)
Age: 18
Occupation: University Student
Appearance: Good looking, in good shape, long hair, lots of make- up,
Personality: Caring, Outspoken, Respects other people,
Likes: Jewellery, make-up, expensive bright clothes, high heels, parties, going out with friends, being on the phone and her boyfriend Troy
Dislikes: Violence, rude, ignorant, unhygienic people
Typical phrase: "that's so cute"
Name: Kenny Jones
Age: 18
Occupation: University student
Appearance: Small, Skinny, Messed up hair, Tucked in shirt, Diabetic retinopathy (Eye disease), not attractive, check shirts with sweater vest.
Personality: Well mannered, Shy, educated, alienated.
Likes: Chess, Sci-fi/ horror films, Computer, books, indie music
Dislikes: Stuck up men, People that push others around, people that don't take their lives seriously
Extra info: Is a straight A student, talks formally, Middle class, Studies Physics and Maths as a degree.

Treatment

A normal day for T (Troy) and Ash at university, surrounded by their friends, the popular couple walk through campus. Not so popular Kenny, sits alone in the school canteen eating his lunch. Ash decides to go home and finish her assignment.

Leaving everyone behind, she makes her way to her car parked in the university. Little does she know she was being followed to her car... unbeknown to the audience it's Kenny, hooded up to be mysterious, to hide his identity to the audience.

Flashes appearing from the corner indicate that Kenny is taking pictures of Ash without her knowing. Having developed the pictures, Kenny takes them to his accommodation which he shares with Ash's boyfriend T. In his own room, Kenny cuts Ash's pictures and sticks them into his diary.

T is trying to look for his football in his accommodation room. He then goes to Kenny room as he finds a book lying around. He opens Kenny's Diary and finds out there are photos of his girlfriend Ash in every page of the book.

T starts to go mad and tries to fight with Kenny. He fights with Kenny on the school campus beating Kenny up but Ash stops the fight not knowing what it is about. T keeps it a secret as he doesn't wants her to know.

T goes up the headmaster demands them to switch rooms because of Kenny obsession. But the headmaster can only make that happen in two days time. So T decides to take a break with his girlfriend to go camping for the weekend.

T then takes off with Ash in the car and goes off to the forest to camp. As they get out the car and starts to camp, Kenny reappears and has followed them to the forest.

Kenny's objective is to kill Troy at his moment. Kenny gives Troy a threat with a text message, Troy is afraid but he starts to negotiate with Kenny as T is willing to give up Ash. Ash finds the phone and sees the messages about the situation Kenny. So Ash starts a massive argument with Troy and runs off from each other.

Ash is lost but doesn't care because she is mixed with emotions. Ash is now confronted by Kenny. Ash has an idea that the only way she was going to make it out alive is by killing both Kenny and Troy. So Ash has another idea that if she gets Kenny to think that she loves him then she can kill him off.

Troy is all alone doesn't know what is happening in the dark. Troy get captured and as he gains conciseness he finds out Kenny captured him. Ash comes out of the bushes leaving Troy shocked but Ash isn't going to save Troy, she is helping Kenny kill Troy and Troy is killed by Ash.

Kenny has now got the chance he has been waiting for to get with Ash. Ash then seduces Kenny to go in the Tent. While they are in the tent Kenny eyes are bleeding just about he is about to kiss Ash but Ash terrified but carries on. Ash kills (stabs) Kenny in the tent. Ash thinks she had killed Kenny and start to walk off but Kenny Crawls out in dying need with his eyes flooding with blood and then dies in the forest.

Video practice before the preliminary task

As we started to prepare for the preliminary task I chose to copy 'The Third Man'. We had to impersonate each camera angle and movement for two minute of the extract. We did every specific shot exactly when they were produced but put our own spoof and idea into it. Our own idea of a chase sequence was a chase abouta crazy boy chasing after a girl. Whereas, 'The Third Man' was a chase sequence came from the idea of a criminal being chased by the police.

Preparation like this will benefit towards my horror trailer because it will teach me how affective each camera shots were and how each shot can flow together in the trailer. It was best to analyse first before making the film trailer because if we went straight into filming we would have struggled because the trailer would have be amateur and poor. So we benefited in analysing other trailers to find out what would work best towards our trailer in each camera shot and transitions.

Chase sequences research

For our preliminary task we are producing a chase sequence trailer. In the beginning we were researching different chase sequences. Firstly, we did a textual analysis on an action chase called 'Alex Reid: Stormbreaker' from a year 12 exam. We research how affective each shot were and how it embed so well with each cuts. A lot of chase sequences have a lot of quick cutting editing with a variety shots being placed. This gave me more of an understanding on planning on how to complete a chase sequence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXERh3muJTk


Another video extract we looked at was a home movie addition of a chase sequence. This chase wasn't a Hollywood action movie but the home movie has some very good shots. These shots were very effective because they a had a lot of variety in their shot making and also had good transitions between each shot. With those attributes you have in your shots you can do a lot of good whilst editing the chase because you have so many option of views to choose from. The setting was very good because they kept their shots in the dark because this gives the audience the affect that something bad could happen. The story is that this man kills this other man that was chasing him. But in fact the guy that was chasing him was only giving back his keys.


Another extract we took some notes at was 'The Third Man chase'. 'The Third Man' was produced in 1954 just when filming started to become a huge hit. 'The Third Man' film establish many shots that people never knew was possible. Every shot they took it had an affect and a different view of the chase. Every shot were so good each of some blended in so well nicely in the chase. In my opinion it set the bar of how many views a camera can perceived if a single action and this video was ahead of its time.