Shot List

Our synopsis of the film we are making;

Our film is about a young girl at the age of 10 and her father 42.

In the part of the film we are filming you (the audience) never find out the name of the little girl, so to help you understand the name of her is Isobella. Now Isobella is to be seen as living an ordinary life like any other 10 year old apart from, she is not.

Her father, who also doesn’t have a name in the first part either, Mark was once in the army as a young boy. He continued for as long as he could but stopped at the age of 32.  

Mark used to have a wife while in the army, and the three of them made one happy family.  But things all changed for them when Mark was diagnosed with severe shellshock. His wife Anna couldn’t cope and left Mark with Isobella with him. She now lives somewhere in America with her new husband and family. Mark and Isobella hadn’t heard from her since and that was over 15 years ago.

The walk out of Anna distressed Mark even more and he turned sick and twisted keeping his only daughter in a dog cage at the end of his garden, only feeding her dog food and the occasional treat such as his leftovers, and that was on a good day. This goes on for years at a time and is the only life Isobella knows.

Towards the middle of the film the next door neighbours of the big house Mark lives in arise a concern to the police of screams being heard from his back garden, nothing really comes of it and is dropped.

Out of surprise Marks wife Anna comes back into the picture and comes to visit her daughter, only to find out the terror of her daughter living the life she does.

Costumes & Props

Costume List & Props 

Costumes:

·   Army Uniform ( plus berrit)  We need an army uniform so the  Audience can grasp the fact he was once in the armed forces.

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  Normal/Scruffy Clothes to show how the father doesn’t treat the daughter right, e.g. not giving her clean clothes

Props:

·   Cage

We need a cage as it will show the audience that the ‘girl’ lives no ordinary life.

We need a mirror as it will be showing the reflection of Sam’s face.

We need a blanket and a pillow to show that the daughter sleeps in the cage.

·   We need a radio to show the normalize of everyday life and what he does in his free time.

·   We need a couch to show how lazy the father is and also to make the living room look more realistic.

We need dog food to show how badly the father treats the daughter, by feeding her dog food instead of human food.

Beer can to show the audience what the father does every day

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Horror film titling analysis

Horror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and tension from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness. Many horror movies also include a central villain. An example of this is the scream series of films and also creeps.

Titling was shown before the film started only in Scream and Halloween, the tilting of Scream was shown in red, white and bold on a black background with also dietetic sound of screaming. Where as Halloween was shown in white in bold on a black background. Also both do not show credits apart from the film studio who have made the film and whose presents the film e.g. Dimension.
Titling in Creep and Misery appears after setting the scene, in Creep after the first 2 minutes where as in Misery titling appears after 8 minutes. Creep’s titling is coloured yellow/orange in contrast to the on-screen images this fluorescent colour suggests danger because of how strong the colours are where it’s very difficult to look at it directly. This has been done to connote the film, portraying to the audience that it is a horror film in which when people may die the audience may get scared and look away the same way they look away from this strong fluorescent light. Also, it is placed on a black background. However the credits of the key actors in Creep are on a black background but the names of the production and co-production where shown over the on-screen images maybe showing the importance of there role, in terms of taking part in the film. Misery titling appears in the centre of the scream, in red and bold on a background of the scenery- snow on road/cliff, where the red titling connoting danger and blood where at this stage if the audience did not know already, they will get the impression that Misery is definitely a slasher and maybe a horror. The appears to be no credit within the starting of the film Misery apart from who presents the film.