Horror Film Opening Plot

Five boys have just finished their A levels and want to go out partying and have a lads weekend together, they are going to be meeting a load of their other mates up there because they missed the train before. The group are heading up to London and planning to go to as many clubs as they can. The boys train leaves at 10:25pm, but this train gets delayed, is this a sign? When the train arrives, it arrives with the lights off, the lights come on after about 5 seconds of the train being stationary, and then the doors don't open for a short amount of time, which also is another sign but the boys choose to ignore these signs, which is the wrong decision...

Paramount

 Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount is consistently ranked as one of the top-grossing movie studios.

They have made many films like, all the Jackass films, Shutter Island, School of Rock, Watchmen, Cloverfield, Transformers, and hundreds more.  

Establishing

Long shot

Two shot

POV

Over the shoulder

Close up

Extreme close up,

Match on action shot, 180 rule, Shot reverse shot.

• Match on action (or cutting on action) is an editing technique for continuity editing in when one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot.
• The action carrying through creates a “visual bridge” which draws the viewer’s attention away from slight cutting or continuity issues.
• The 180° rule is a filming guideline that participants in a scene should have the same left-right relationship to each other, with filming only taking place within the 180° angle in which this is maintained in a conversation.
• Shot reverse shot is a continuity editing technique used in conversations or simply characters looking at each other or objects.

Suspense.

Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxeity about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. Suspense may operate in any situation where there is a lead-up to a big event or dramatic moment, with tension being a primary emotion felt as part of the situation.

You usually have suspence in in thriller movies and horror movies, and it creates a certain atmosphere, when everyone is quiet and all of a sudden something will jump out, or explode, anything that will make the audience jump. You also associate suspense with adrenaline.

Conventions of a Horror/Thriller movie.

Usually horror films are set in small communities or isolated places, you can use urban areas, dark streets and small alleyways, also you could have it in a large city or town, it would help if the city is run down and has no inhabitants. other good key locations for a horror film; lakes, asylums, shopping centre, farm land, underground train routes, graveyard, isolated houses etc. 

Different camera shots are very important in horror films, POV shot is very effective on camera and can put you in the shoes of the character that you are following. they can be used to draw attention to the fact that the person is in danger or about to get killed, being killed in a POV shot is where it works at its fullest. Close ups are also very important in horror and thrillers, because they can show emotions that the character is showing in great detail. 

Most of characters stay the same in these types of movies, you have one character which is the main character, sometimes there will be two, they stay alive until the end and survive against all the odds that are against them. Then the villain that is either leading them into traps or trying to kill the main character most of the time they don't succeed.

The stupid/immoral teenagers that always get killed.

Creepy children.

Police Officers that can either be good or bad.

And many more: Ghosts, Zombies, Demons, Psychopath, Stalker, Weirdo, Werewolf, cheerleader and the list goes on.

Prelim

For my preliminary task I will be doing it by myself because the person I was planning to do it with, has changed courses. I think it will be harder but easy at the same time doing it by myself, it will allow me to make my own decisions and not have to have any set backs by asking people I'm working with what i want to do, but then I will have to do all of the work by myself which might be overwhelming. The editing will probably be the part which I wish i had some help with because it might be a lengthy process.