Monday 18 October 2010

The 5 S's - Stock Characters

We discuss as a group how many people we would like use in our trailer. We decided to keep the characters quite minimal we felt the use of props & locations would speak for themselves.
The only form of characters we are using with speech is a reporter. This reporter is used to inform the audience this killing has been happening over a period of time & the people in the area are aware of the situation. We are going to use props to insinuate that a murder has happened or is about to. We are going to use a 'random' victim to just emphasise the amount of killings. Our main victim we are focusing on will be a girl, we want her to be shown as vulnerable because when we are challenging our stereotype the killer is going to be shown as very strong & the contrast between victim & killer will be emphasised.

Victims tend to be very vulnerable in horror films. The killer will be very different from our usual killers we see in films. Our killer is going to be femine she will wear a long cloak with red heels, red lipstick & long hair. She will be wearing a femine mask to keep the mystery alive. Masks tend to be used in films to do the exact same thing and I feel it keeps the story more alive when you dont know who it is. For example in the film "When a stranger calls" the man was not wearing a mask but his face was never revealed to the camera. Every other aspect of him was apart from his face & to me as the audience I felt this kept the suspense and intrigued me more.

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