My groups idea for a movie "CULT"

Our group had many idea's for our horror trailer, what we wanted to do is to use the main conventions of horror, so we created a survey on survey monkey and came to the conclusion to introduce a final girl, a plot line (which we created with the data collected from our survey) and binary opposition will be used to confuse the audience about the girl from the start of the movie/trailer, the questions that we want them to ask is 'is she Innocent/cute or is she not?' The idea is to make the audience think about what is going to happen and try to make sense of it themselves.

The plot of our horror story:

A couple is driving through the woods when they come across a little girl, they get out of the car to look for her but she mystical disappears in the dark. they decide to search for her and walk into the misty woods. As they search through the forest in search of her, they realize that there is something strange about the forest, walking around in the maze of a forest the couple realize that they're lost. They end up seeing a group singing and what looks like worshiping, in the middle is the little girl that they have been looking. Unknown to them is that he little girl isn't as Innocent as they thought, and in fact is the one in control of the cult. When they go in to try and save her they get caught by the cult and forced to do what they tell them to. While they are caught the demonic little girl try's to force them to her side/ to going the cult, but the husband has a heroic moment when he acts as a decoy to help the women escape from them, but in doing this dies after being tortured by cutting a cross into his chest and resits. After a amount of running the girl escapes and finds the car and drives off, as she looks back the forest disappears.

we decided to use Bordwell and Thompson's theory of distorting time and space to make the trailer/movie more complex by distorting the time. We thought that we could accomplish this by making parts slower or faster and rewinding them and replaying the. This would give the story that uneasy feel that it needs and make the unnatural work with in the plot.

Shot list and other planning material.

Shot list

Questionnaire

Story Board

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My Idea's for a Horror Story

Teufel, an unknown name given to those who are born deformed or diffrent, it means demon in german. The world is saperated between these normal people and the demons living amoung them unaware of what they really are. A spell is placed apon the born through thier parents DNA and has been done for a long time

Audience Research

In order to find out what the Horror audience wants to see within a horror movie we were tasked to create a survey that would be sent to different audience types within different areas. As a group we don't have funds and the experience to create a huge survey that would be sent world wide. So we decided to post it on as many social network websites such as twitter and Facebook to get as many results as we could and to a wider audience group that we could, instead of just sending it to friends who might have similar interests as us and could create a biased result.

We used an online application called "SurveyMonkey" to do our audience research and used social networks to send our survey to the needed audience.

This is our survey!

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So I've posted my groups survey

Horror Mood Board

To the right you can see a mood board I made to show what scares me and what I find horrific. As can be seen, most of the pictures I have chosen are of the unknown, religion and death. These photos have given me insperation for my horror trailer. Religion is one of the mane focuses in my mood board, this is shown by the coffin and the grim reaper, not knowing if religion is true or not and blindly folloing it scares me, because it relates to the unknown and if it's not proven then it's not right or wrong. A huge factor here would be the devil for instant.

To the top left of the board I have chosen two different pictures of aliens, the reasons for this is that aliens are from another world and we/I have no idea of where they have come from, what they are capable of, or what they are capable of doing. There are many movies and stories that play with the fact that we humans have a small amount of knowlage of the unknown and less about aliens. A well known real case is the reported alien crash in Roswell. What makes it even scarier is thinking that the goverment might be hidding things like this from us.

I decided that my pictures I choose should have teeth showing as that is what makes animal, creatures, humans and objects seem carnivourus, this makes it seem scary and can be seen in most of the pictures. Carnivourse animals are seen as as hunters and killers and playing with the idea that all things with large teath would be seen in the same way makes teath a vital way in creating that killer theme.

I have a zombie, a grim reaper and a coffin, this relates to the unknown but also death. Not knowing what happens after death has a scary impact on the way people see things, A good example of using this knowlage is the use of zombies and vampires in movies. This gives us an example of what could happen if we did die. At the bottom left of the board I have a picture of a porcelain doll, I chose this because I feel as if thees dolls are constantly looking at you and because it looks somewhat life like. This can make an object seem meanasing without having to do anything to it.