Killuminati

We watched the opening scene of the film The Ring and analyzed how the main character is represented:

The main character in the opening scene is a young white pretty female with blond hair. She is wearing her school uniform and by this we can tell her age (teenager).
Her characteristics are the usual fit of a teenager, very gossipy, giggly and playful but she also gets scared very easily.

From this it's clear that young white girls are being represented as weak, vulnerable and slightly stupid.

Today in our media lesson we planned our coursework in depth. We done a brief plan of our ideas such as locations, characters etc.

Today Tajmina took the role of commenting on other peoples blogs and doing paper work such as schedules and the crew list.

Shaidul helped Nahim with the planning of our coursework such as with timing and characters.

Nahim uploaded the voting station and the synopsis video. in addition he helped out with the paper work.

This is Killuminati productions synopsis highlighting our ideas for our main coursework. There are two ideas in which we developed and we are going to choose one of them. As a group we loved to do choose idea 2 for our coursework however it will be very time consuming. We got only 2 minutes for our opening scene. The first idea we'll be very suitable with in the time limit. Although idea 2 is a better idea we chose idea 1 so it can fit in.

Our film is going to be rated 15+




We chose this because our genre is Horror/Thriller and its going to contain scenes which are going to be unsuitable for children to watch. It will also contain violent actions and blood.
Also we want the film to be aimed at people of our own age group, we feel that because Most people our age are into these types of film and they like a bit of excitement, But if the film contained some sexual scenes and very strong language then our film would've been rated 18. So it's best suited for people over 15.

This is the type of house we will have as most horror movies be set in big houses.

These are like the type of students we will have in the opening scene.

The killer in our video will be similar to the killer above in the picture. We chose this specific character because he's dress sense is really horrific. Furthermore hes role in his films reveal the genre of horror by including violent scenes and murder. This character will be perfect for our genre which is horror.

We will have a girl as the main character in our film. We chose a female character to be the victim because most horror movies have female characters as the victim. Her dress colour is white which is symbolic because since that colour symbolises purity, it shows that she is going to be an easy target.

The preliminary exercise was to film and edit a character opening a door, crossing the room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom he/she engages in a couple of lines of dialogue.

The main strengths of our production was up we were satisfied s that we were prepared and organized. In addition we were all comfortable with our roles . Editing was easy but it look a bit of time but at the end we all managed to get it finished. As a group we were satisfied with the final edit of the task. As all of us took each turns in different roles and we communicated well.

The only weakness we had was the camera work and framing. There were one scene where it didnt make sense for e.g Nishad's head is above the camera level, second scene Nishad's head is elow the camera level.

Next time we will be careful of the camera works and framing. So it will make sense and look more professional. we will think about camera movements and zooming.

The role of Directing was played by Shaidul, the role of editing was played by Nahim and the producer was Tajmina.

Director: Shaidul
Producer: Tajmina
Editor: Nahim
Camera: Nishad
Bodyguard: Shaidul
Visitor: Nishad
Godfather: Shahid

Horror;

1. Scream (1996)

2. The Grudge (2004)

3. Mirrors (2008)

4. The Exorcist (1973)

5. Saw V (2008)

Thriller;

1. The Godfather (1972)

2. 2012 (2009)

3. Pulp Fiction (1994)

4. The Dark Night (2008)

5. Rear Window (1954)

• Violence
• Victim (most likely female)
• Death
• Vengeance
• Bad Weather
• Isolated Suburb Area
• Large Empty House
• Evening/Night Time
• Paranormal Activities
• Chase/Games
• Church yard

"One Missed Call" is one of the scariest trailer we found. This trailer makes persuades the viewer to go watch the film as it looks very interesting in the trailer. This film has been rated 15+.

This final part of the opening scene shows how effectively the director ends the opening scene. In this clip the murderer kills the girl and hangs her on a tree while her father is trying to find her, her mother listens to her scream in pain over the phone. The scene ends by the parents going outside the house to find their dead daughter hanging from a tree dead.
A lot of suspense is created, as when the victims parents enter the house it's all messed up, the fire alarm is sounding whilst they are rushing around immensely trying fix things and find their daughter; this adds to the 'suspense' factor as everything is very rushed in the house & then when it shows the killer & victim, although something very wrong is happening it's slow and calm. This also indicates that the killer is very comfortable and used to what he just did.

The girl is alone in the house and she is getting ready to watch a scary movie this can be decoded by the audience as the girl will get frightened. She also keeps on getting mysterious calls the audience will also decode this as something bad is going to happen to the girl.
By watching this it is clear that most victims in horror/thriller films are women. As You can see through the study of semiotics the director used a girl alone in the house which makes the girl look vulnerable.

The Genre we have chosen for our coursework is Horror/Thriller. We have been watching a variety of different opening scenes from horror and thriller films and know what type of things we need to include when we film our coursework, these include; Dark skies, Bad weather, Preferably a female character alone and vulnerable, Suburban area and have suspense created right from the start. We chose this genre because we all enjoy watching both horror and thriller films and we agreed it would be the most enjoyable out of all the different types of genres for us to plan and film.