Our Pitch

1.   We have an idea for the perfect horror.
  Genre – Horror.
  Location – Woods
  Audience – 15 +, who like such films as ‘The Blair Witch Project’
                                                                  ‘Urban Legend’
                                                                  ‘Boogeyman’
 

2.   Plot :
Two boys and a girl are camping in the woods, over the camp fire the boys decide to scare the girl by telling children’s stories such as: The Candy Man story, The Boogeyman story and The Bloody Mary story. The girl says she doesn’t think it’s such a good idea however the boys think she’s just being weak. After a few tricks from the boys, the story becomes a reality.

3.   When doing research of films and trailers, the most popular genre of film were
                    - Horror
                    - Romance
                    - Drama

With the experience me and Stephaniehad doing our AS project, we found that we really like creating a film that falls under the category of horror, as it is one of our expertise and we have interest in the genre itself.
We also did further research into more horrors and we found that there is a gap in the section of the genre that holds the forklores, urban legends and myth based type of films.

We developed these ideas by looking up more forklores and myths to widen our variety and to give us a more of an insight to what we are basing our film on.
We’ve also looked at a film called ‘Hachet’ that was also set in the woods just like ‘The Blair Witch Project’, this helped give off a ‘creepy’ atmosphere. By using the woods as our location it gives the audience a sense of uncertainty, this is because our characters will be out of the comfort zone and by being in the woods anything that happens will be out of their control.

We think this idea WILL work, as it is a film what will fall in the gap within in the genre.  It’s new, it’s a change of pace and it is what all teenagers and adults can relate to because at one point or another everyone has ‘dared’ or has been ‘dared’ to try out these myths.

Me and Stephanie did this rough design idea to give a feel of what our poster is going to be like.

 The only part that we have in colour is the RED tent; this is because it is significant to the film because it show the audience that the main characters are away camping. We also put it in red because it has connotations of horror, death and mainly BLOOD. This is important because it signifies to the audience that the film is in fact a horror so they will know before hand and not think they are going to a romance film.

We chose to have in the background a forest, this is because it is where the location it, so it’s pretty much important to include that in cause it’s not going to be set anywhere else. We have placed it in black and white because of the inspiration from ‘The Blair Witch Project’. When doing research we found that the posters that featured a black and white location turned out to be scarier than film posters in colour. Had having this affect in the back ground gives the audience a sense of danger because it shows the darkness of the woods but also it shows the characters being significantly smaller than the location they’re in.

In the further background we are going to have something peering through the trees, we aren’t sure on what that is going to be yet as we don’t want to give too much information away on the film. But main ideas that have arisen are:

  Having a silhouette of the ‘killer/supernatural being’.
  Having an image of something to do with the myth, e.g. An Axe for ‘The Hatchet’.
  Having  an image just like this example but with silhouettes of the main characters.

Or
  Having a ‘Harry Potter’ type of poster design, where they have many main characters and they all   feature on their own poster, but all have a main poster that features the main characters, tent and ‘thing’.

This is mine and Stephanie's Production Company.

We have chose the black and white background as it gives the effect of uncertainty, also after doing research we found that many production companies that produce horror films, have a lot of dark colours included. This is significant because we want to meet the codes and coventions of the media world.

We have also placed the name of the company in red bold writing over the top, red has connotations of blood and horror, this is important when we are trying to get the message across to the audience that we produce many horror films.

It was important to give it a very easy-rememberable name, so when the audience views it, they istantly remember that they are viewing a horror film.

The image in the back is very important - the woods, this is because our film is located in the middle of the woods, and through much research we have found that a lot of teenaged targeted films have the location of woods within in the film at one point or another, e.g. The Blair Witch Project, Urban Legend etc.