We came up with 3 ideas for our final piece, a vampire film, a zombie film and a teen slasher. We thought about the use of facilities we would have to abtain to make the films and also the budget that applied to us, to make put to use for the special effects etc. From this, we could clearly chose one of our ideas and therefore we picked a teen slasher movie.
From research about a teen slasher movie, it would help us and give us a brief idea of how to make our final piece as best as possible. We found out some of the conventions you would expect:
- Knifes
- Teenagers
- Masked killers
- Ineffectionate adults
- Point of view shots
- Isolated areas
I took some screen grabs to show the conventions.
This is a typical feature you would expect in a film like this. The location is where the girl would feel safe and secure, also what is typical is that the house is isolated and the scene is set at night. Also, the girl is home alone in such a big house, this is typical in relation to a Teen Slasher.
This is another typical convention you would see featured in a Teen Slaher film, the use of knifes. It is an important shot, it shows Casey on the phone flirting with a male caller and this tells the audience that she might be promisqus. Which means that she might be a sinner. The fact that she's toying with the knife in phallic way reinforces the female sexuality. Knifes are key weapons in Slasher Movies and fans of this genre may expect to see that knife being used later in the film.
From seeing the opening of Scream, I can see that an isolated house and also the use of knifes and a girl left home alone with a mysterious man ringing her, I now know that these are ideas that can fit into my idea.
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