Evalution Task 2



In our opening titles we tried to make our clown, Trunco, quite similar to the clown, Pennywise in the film IT as we thought that he came across as a very threatening, scary character, and thats how we wanted our clown to come across as we wanted our film to be as scary as we could make it. The difference between Trunco and Pennywise is that Pennywise looks much more scary than Trunco, and that's simply because we didn't have the skills and makeup to make Joe look that scary and creepy, but we still based the look of Trunco around Pennywise and tried to make him look quite similar. 
There is also a few differences between Trunco and Pennywise. One of these differences is that in our film, Trunco kills mainly older people and goes for them whereas in the film IT Pennywise captures and kills little kids. 
Pennywise is often recognised by playing clown music or doing his clown laugh when he's around. We thought this was very effective and included this into our film, but instead of playing the music or laugh when the clown is around, we played it when the clown had done his damage to show that he has been there to cause harm to everyone and that he has left his mark there. 
We decided to do a film based around an evil clown character as clowns are usually seen as innocent and something that is associated with children as they are usually very friendly. That's why we chose to use a clown as our main character as it goes against the stereotypes and makes it alot more creepier as clowns are supposed to be nice, not going around killing people for no reason. 

Evaluation Task 1

We chose the title 'Dead Funny' for our opening titles as we thought it had a ring to it. We thought it sounded good using an oxy-moron as the words dead and funny aren't usually associated with each other. Also, we thought this would have a connection to the plot of our film as there is a lot of death involved, and the clown's signature noise after he's killed someone in the film is a freaky laugh. Laughing is usually associated with the word 'funny' so that's how we linked these words together.

The setting and location for our opening titles was filmed in Joe's house. We all agreed that this would be a good location for our opening titles as the street that Joe lives down gets very dark at night and also his kitchen had a big window with a view of the outside so it was good for the shot of the clown standing in the window. Also the lighting in Joe's house and street turned out better for our opening titles as it made it seem eerie and mysterious.

For the clowns costume, we ordered the creepiest one we could find, simply to make it that little bit more scary for the audience to watch. We decided to use only a few props for the opening titles so it was more focused on the props that we used. The props we included were;

• A red balloon- we chose to use the colour red as it represents danger and it also the colour of blood so it would have given the audience a bit of a clue to what might happen.
• Red fairy liquid- to represent blood when it was being poured onto the knife. We wasn't trying to make it look like actual blood, we just wanted to make it seem creepier and give the audience more of a clue that our opening titles was a horror.
• A sharp kitchen knife- to pour the red fairy liquid on when the woman was about to wash up and to do a close up on when the woman was putting it away after washing it up.

For our camerawork we used quite a lot of close ups just for the fact that it made the tension build up and make it more intense. We also used a few long shots to show the setting of where our opening titles was and to show that the woman was vulnerable as she was on her own. We decided that for our editing we was going to use very quick shots to show that the woman was getting more freaked out as the time went along.
 

Our Opening Titles

Raw Footage

Filming Footage

This is a short video clip of Joe explaining about the clip we was filming at the time of him filming this video.

History of Horror

I did some research into how horror has changed over time and compared out films, to how new films are these days.

Horror films in the silent era



From this video clip, you can see how much horror films have changed since the late 1800's. Horror films then, were not really as scary as these days as you can see from this video. Horror movies in the silent era were, in my opinion, not scary at all as there is no noises to freak you out or make you on edge. This video just shows how important sound is in horror movies as it takes the whole element of horror out of it.



Horror films in the 1920s

From this picture you can see that since the 1800s, the horror films started to change a lot, as instead of having unrealistic characters that make it not scary at all, they started to use scarier costumes that actually add a sense of horror to the films.










When horror films started to get scary





 

In the late 1920s horror films started to get creepier and scare people more, from this clip of dracula, you can see how much films had changed from the 1800s. The films still werent as scary as films these days but they were starting to work up to that.

The late 1900s



This trailer of 'Dead Alive' shows how much the idea of horror changed, horrors these days are much much more scarier than what they used to be, they are a lot more gorey and scary for people that watch them. From this research I have learnt how important sound is in horror films and that it takes a lot more gore to make a horror film seem more scary. This has helped me in my main task because now I know what to inlcude to make our opening titles are scary as possible.  

Our Titles

 




Too make our film title we used premeire elements, as thats what we are making our film on and its better to use as its a good editing software and is easy to use.





This is our finished film title, we decided to use fair ground type writing as it would fit into our theme of the scary clown. We liked this font the best as it stood out to us more. We used the deep red colour for the font as it represents blood, and this is what our film will be including, because of the clown that goes around killing innocent people.