Storyboard Final

Research For Narrative

We reasearched onto the BBC website and we found a story which matched ours and in order to make our trailer realistic and beliveable we thought we research into a real life story.

Our Narrative and Draft.

Our Production Name and Logo

This is our production name and logo which we came up with we first thought of some others like 'Eye Productions' but it didnt really work well so we then thought of 'JIGSAW' productions. We thought this was a strong production name and we then used photoshop to create this we got fonts of 'dafont.com' and we thought we would put a puzzle peice outside the 'i' so that it gives it an effect that it is a jigsaw this also matched our film trailer and its very jigsaw ( put in peices).

Some Conventions Of Horror Trialers:

•  They highlight the 'best bits' of the film
•  We are not shown the story in narrative order
•  They showcase the stars of the film
•  Conversations between characters usually consist of one line each
•  Voice - Overs are used to tell the story and give credit information
•  Music plays an important role in creating atmosphere
•  The title does not appear until the end
•  The trailer builds to a climax, where it ends

Paul Wells Research

→ Main horror audience

•  Teenagers
• Young adults

→ Effects of horror on audiences

→ Small focus groups study - 12 members

4 age groups:  →16-25   » 1975-1984

                    → 26-40  » 1960-1974

                    → 41-55  » 1945-1959

                    → 56-80  » 1920-1944

This study teaches us about the relationship to being frightened with changes with age and how it relates to a broader factor affecting emotional repsones. We also learn audiences between 1970's and 1990's are more anesthetist to explicit special effects, whereas 'monster' films of the 20s and 30s reported very strong personal responses to images and iconography of horror when cinema was new and unknown. Young audiences are aware of artificially and are becoming harder to shock, which films play into this knowingness of horror conventions and leaves us a question to answer is this part of the fun? 

In order to see which age group enjoys horror the most and which is easily frightened, I decided to conduct my own horror questionnaire.

 

Moral Panics

A moral panic essentially a 'crusade' against behavior or precieved negative developments in society. Cohen (1972): Argues that a moral panic is when the media exaggerates through the media such as newspapers to an event to refer to its social uses, morality today is not as strong as it once was.It has caused changes in the law including the 1894 video recordings act that gave the BBFC power to classify videos.

Newspapers which run moral panics: 

→DAILY MAIL

→DAILY EXPRESS

→NEWS OF THE WORLD

→THE SUN

→THE MIRROR

Norm

• Enjoyment 
• Anxious
• Jumpy
• Fear
• Nervous
• Alarm
• Alert

Extreme

• Panic Attacks
• Hysteria - Screaming / Crying
• Fainting
• Heart Attacks

Older People / Women of a Fragile Constitution

Responsibility to protect them ?  

→ Audience

→ BBFC  - 18/15