Horror film step outline

Horror Film Step Outline

Below I have created a step outline while watching 'The ring' as part of our research into the horror movie genre. Within this I have looked at the types of cuts used , the duration, the miss-en-scene and the editing used.

 Below my team member Georgia Pearce completed the same activity and watched 'The Purge'.

Film Pitch, Padlet and Amendments

Film Pitch:

Title Of Horror FIlm	The Haunting
Genre/Subgenre	Horror – Subgenre Psychological/Paranormal
Log Line	‘The Haunting’ follows a teenage girls’ traumatic walk through the forest as she sees distorted hallucinations that increasingly play with her mind, reminding her of the day her best friend tragically died.
Synopsis	·      Kayleigh wakes up and starts to get ready to take her dog on a walk. She appears to be disturbed by a traumatic event yet to be discovered.      ·      As she takes a walk through the woods, her past begins to be revealed, the truth of her friends death Clara becomes clear.      ·      Shots of Kayleigh hallucinating Clara walking next to her and running through the woods      ·      Hallucination of Clara screaming, Kayleigh increasingly becoming worried      ·      Runs towards the hut where Clara was killed, still hallucinating      ·      Stands in the hut to see nothing there, looking panicked      ·      Clara appears behind her, looking sinisterly towards Kayleigh.
Resources Needed      ·      Camera      ·      Tripod      ·      Dog	Locations ·      House ·      Forest ·      Hut	Characters      ·      Kayleigh      ·      Clara
Justification For Your Ideas	Our ideas follow the conventions of a horror narrative. Psychological elements are conveyed through hallucinations and Paranormal elements are conveyed through the haunting from Clara, Kayleigh’s dead friend. Many people said I our survey they wanted quick cuts, and so we will include this to appeal to our target audience. There is the idea of a ghost/spirit haunting someone and a location of a forest is also very stereotypical of horror.

Embedded below is the link to our Padlet, we have used this to gain feedback about our ideas for the horror movie opening.From these suggestions we will amend and change any problems that arise.

Padlet :http://padlet.com/wall/ep7lbsf7ch

Created with Padlet

While editing our horror movie we had to ensure that our editing was realistic, things like continuity we ensured that was precise and matched up so that our final outcome didn't appear to be overly artificial, this helped with making the horror movie a real life situation. Any transitions that we used during editing our clip we made sure that they were not to obvious to the eye by using straight quick cuts that matched up perfectly to disguise them or if they were obvious it was because a complete change in the scene was taking place.