Evaluation Question 3

Before deciding on what our horror film would involve we had to first of all think about if it would be for a mass audience or niche. After contemplating the advantages and disadvantages I came to the conclusion that a typical slasher horror film would benefit much more in a mass audience environment as it reaches out to a range of people from 15 upwards. Our film would be a mainstream film, I have researched a range of the categories including, Art house, TV movie, Hollywood and Indie. After much research I realised that our film was a mainstream and follows the same conventions as hit blockbusters like The Amityville Horror (1979), Scream (1996) and The Strangers (2008). The production companies in mainstream which would distribute our horror film could be ‘Dimension Films’ as they have produced for such films as the Scream quadrilogy and Halloween films which were both very successful and are very much along the lines of our film storyline. Another production company I researched into was ‘Rogue Pictures’, I discovered that they had produced for such horror films like ‘The Strangers’ and ‘Cherry Falls’ which were both horror films based along a similar storyline to ours and was very much successful. After looking at both of these production companies I have come to the conclusion that ‘Dimension Films’ would be a perfect fit for our film as they have supported a lot of horror films and would be perfect as promoting and getting our film recognised. Before we properly decided on choosing horror as our genre we analysed two horror films of our choice, we looked at ‘Scream’ and The ‘Shining’ from these two films I developed some ideas for our own film. In scream I really liked the idea of one person stalking innocent people and the mask giving a hint of suspense. From the shining I also really liked the effect in the hallway scene where the scene jump cuts from the two little girls alive then completely massacred; I took these ideas and manipulated them to suit our film.

The shining Jump cut scene:

I thought this scene was very chilling and created a bold scary statement and really did leave a huge impact into audience’s minds after watching it. The dramatic sound also was an inspiration for our film as instead of screeching we had static TV noises and had a dead victim in the bath.