1 - The title of our film is 'The Rejected'. We chose to include the word 'The' as I feel it had more of an effect, it shows the film will be about an individual being rejected, not the word in general. This isn't very typical of a horror movie, as also demonstrated in the 'Scream' image, most horror film titles are general; 'Scream', 'Nightmare on Elm Street', 'Halloween', 'Resident Evil' or 'Paranormal Activity'. All of these names also connote to the audience that something bad happens to more than one person during the film, 'scream', 'nightmare', 'evil', 'paranormal', are all "bad" words, they connote to the audience that the film is a horror before they even viewany footage, be it a trailer, teaser or even the actual film.
3 - The costumes we used were current and up-to-date in fashion, the film is set in winter, so our main actress 'Aleisha' wore a 'Fair Isle' patterned, knitted jumper and leggings, this is a fairly fashionable outfit, conveying to the audience that the film is set in the current day. Our main actor 'Toby' who played the 'bad guy' on the phone, wore all black, again showing a typical 'baddie'. Costumes are a very common way of showing the audience when the film was made, so again we used a typical 'trademark' of the horror genre.
The props we used we used are extremely typical for the horror genre; a knife, candles, black gloves (worn by Toby). However two of the props we used; the photo's and the photo album are not very typical of the horror genre.
4 - For our camera work and editing, we wanted to use shots that were not necessarily stereotypical of the horror genre, as seen in image 4, we used a low angle close up of aleishas feet, and she runs of camera, creating a low angle long shot. We thought this was effective as it is unusual. (please see 'Analysis of The Rejected' for more in-depth description of our camera work)
5 - The font and size of the writing is also typical for the genre. I chose to use a black background with white writing because this is fairly stereotypical of a horror film, as demonstrated with the image of 'Scream' above.
6 - Our storyline is very typical of the horror genre "innocent teenager, home alone, bad guy on the phone . . . " and the audience learns all of this information with in the first minute and a half of the film. Again, that in itself is a typical trait of our chosen genre, foundation information is delivered basically instantly.
7 - Our title sequence instantly tells the audience what genre the film is. From the outset the film uses low key lighting (candles), knives, surveillance images and other generally creepy items, this connotes to the audience that the genre is horror.
8 - Our characters were introduced in a stereotypical way for our genre, two teenage girls, walk into a mid shot from off screen and walk through a room, while the camera pans to follow them (as described in 'Analysis of The Rejected'). Our other main character, who is the bad guy on the phone is introduced earlier than the two girls, he is the first character that the audience see. This will connote to the audience that although they cannot see his face, they know he will be a very important character in the storyline. The audience can also tell this by the surveillance photos of Aleisha that he has. Toby is also introduced in low-key lighting, which will connote to the audience that he is a very twisted person with a dark personality.
9 - I added the special effects during the editing process, I chose certain effects because they looked really cool and have an effect on the audience, especially (see image 9) showing the red filter and flickering effect, because this is a point of view shot, it looks scary. It connotes to the audience that this person obviously has something wrong with them because their vision is distorted. This is fairly stereotypical of the horror genre, as proven by my analysis of 'See No Evil'.
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