Alien Poster Analysis

Film Poster

A film poster is a poster used to advertise a film. Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and international markets. They normally contain an image with text. Today's posters often feature photographs of the main actors.

conventions of a film poster are displayed in this example:
Title-ALIEN
Tagline-This is what draws the audiences attention in towards the film. ''In space no one can hear you scream''
Credits-Cast, Crew, Producer etc.

The main role of the film poster is to reach out to the correct audience, by clearly displaying the genre of the film. Take ''ALIEN'' for instance this film is a science fiction horror film, we can state this by the Title of the film ''Alien'' which encourages the fact that this film will contain aliens throughout the film. which indicates to us that it is a science fiction film, the horror part is told through the Tagline which says ''In space no one can hear you scream'' this gives us the clear implication that this film will be a horror as the only reason you really scream is because you are scared in this instance the characters are screaming from the alien that could kill them on a spaceship i would predict as in the Tagline it included ''space'' this is why i said in a spaceship as that is the only way to be able to live unless they have inhabited a plaint.
The main feature of this poster is the alien egg rupturing with the stereotypical alien colour of green seeping out whilst glowing, the black back ground tells us that it is a dark film that might involve mystery, the back ground could mean that the alien lurks around in the shadows as we know the most scariest things come out of the unknown, from the shadows, from our own fear. Also with the background being black it is also empty so there is no where to run which means there is no safety for the character on the ship if the alien in in side the ship.
At the bottom of the poster shows the actors who will be staring in the film which could bring in more audience if they like that actor who is involved in the film then they are going to see how well he/she is acting in this film. With the poster it shows no characters so know body knows anything about the characters in the film which would make the audience watch it as they nothing about it. 

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

 

It was around 1920 when Hitchcock joined the film industry. He started off drawing the sets he was a very skilled artist. It was there that he met Alma Reville, though they never really spoke to each other. It was only after the director for Always Tell Your Wife (1923) fell ill and Hitchcock was named director to complete the film hat he and Reville began to collaborate.

 

Hitchcock had his first real crack at directing a film, start to finish, in 1923 when he was hired to direct the film Number 13 (1922) , though the production wasn't completed due to the studio's closure. Hitchcock didn't give up then. He directed a film called The Pleasure Garden (1925), a British/German production, which was very popular. Hitchcock made his first trademark film, The Lodger (1927) .

His success followed when he made a number of films in Britain such as The Lady Vanishes (1938) and Jamaica Inn (1939), some of which also gained him fame in the USA. In 1940, the Hitchcock family moved to Hollywood, where David O. Selznick, an American producer at the time, hired him to direct an adaptation of 'Daphne du Maurier' (av) 's Rebecca (1940) .

 

It was after Saboteur (1942) was completed, as his fame as a director grew, that films companies began to refer to his films like Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972) .

 

 On March 7, 1979, Hitchcock was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award. In late 1979, Hitchcock was knighted, making him Sir Alfred Hitchcock.

The Brief For The Horror Opening Title Sequence

Horror Opening Title Sequence

 

The brief we was giving said that we had to create our own opening title sequence of a horror film.

The Opening sequence had to be 2 minutes long, Has to have the credits that in clued the people who created and produced the video, There needed to be music in the video and we had to put our very own production company logo and name at the begging of the video to make it look more professional.

 

From the skills we learnt doing the preliminary task we had to show what we had learnt from the camera angles, shooting schedule, editing and much more that I had learnt when doing the preliminary task.

 

The thing I have learnt from the preliminary task that I want to push if I was the director for this project is the camera angles/shots and the more advanced, better shot will make the audience amazed by the angles, as I like to be different and push boundary's.

Synopsis of my Horror Film

Synopsis of my Horror Film

I am the Creator of this story.

The Beginning

(it is about 8:30pm on 1st of December)

 The deformed faced farmer walked toward his barn whilst dragging his victim. The farmer opens the sliding door of the barn and switches on the lights which are dull and unable to light up the whole barn, he then places the victim onto a chair and ties her up. Her arms where tied behind her and her legs where tied to the chair legs there seemed to be no escape, she is in a bit of a predicament. The killer then rifles through his tools to see what he can use on this poor defenceless woman that has done no harm in any shape or form to this man, who is now placing his instruments of torture out in size order on a table whilst he was doing this he asked the young woman ''do you want to be with me?'' in his deep aggressive hoarse voice. she was confused and scared out off her life and built up the courage to ask ''what...... what do you mean?'' The farmer stopped putting his tools in size order and turned around and said ''do you want to be with me...... do you love me?''

 The young woman looks confused and asked '' what happens to me if I say no I don't want to be with you and I don't love you?''

''Then I would have to get rid of you, but if you do say yes then we can live together and spend the rest of our lives together. so what is it a yes or a no ? ''

 The farmer waited a few seconds and said '' I take that as a no then'' and he turns back around and continues to put his tools in size order.

The young girl looks around the life less old barn which only had mechanical parts everywhere it was like he was trying to make something out of things he finds laying around on roads or in junk yards, she was getting more frightened by the second as she didn't know when the farmer was going to turn around to kill her. The farmer turned around with a knife in his hand, she panicked and was hyperventilating and shouted ''YES I LOVE YOU''

 The farmer dropped the knife and ran round to the back of the chair and untied her arms when he did this she pushed off the floor still attached to the chair to get the knife she didn't reach it, the farmer couldn't believe it she was trying to get away so he started to walk over the woman couldn't reach the knife she started to craw and reach it before the farmer got to her. The farmer grabbed her and started to pull her up when the farmer felt a shooting pain in his right leg he let go of her she fell to the ground and started to untie her self whilst the farmer fell to the floor screaming and swearing in pain, he held his leg that had been slashed by the woman, the woman was untied and ran for the door and slid it open and ran she had left the knife back in the barn she was weaponless and unable to defend for her self now if the crazed farmer would came after her.

Back in the barn the farmer is getting up with help of an axe he got off his table where he laid out his tools in size order, he used the axe as a walking stick to get him up with in great pain he was chuntering to him self saying ''you fucking bitch just you wait till I get you..... all i wanted was us to be together now you blow it...... now..... now I have to get rid of you..... why ..... why would you do such a thing you bitch''.

The woman is in a middle of a field disoriented and unable to tell what way is the way home. The farmer grabbed a torch and limped after the woman whilst lightly singing a nursery rhyme ''Oh,where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?
Oh, where have you been, Charming Billy?
I have been to seek a wife, she's the joy of my whole life
But she's a young thing and cannot leave her mother''

The woman could see the barn light when she turned around every couple of  minutes, she carried on walking in the opposite direction to the barn but when she turned around this time the barn light was turned off, she began to panic and saw a light coming to wards her it was moving up and down as if someone was walking to wards her so she yelled for help but it wasn't the help she was looking for unless she wanted help to her death, as the figure with the light came closer to words her she realised who it was by the limp that this person has as she slashed his leg it was the farmer coming to finish off the job that he had started. She started running again and the farmer began to limp faster after her with the axe dragging behind him. The woman turned around and could see the unstoppable farmer coming to wards her as he went to look where she was going to she fell over some rocks, her heart was pounding she could feel her veins pulsating all over her body as the farmer gained the lost space between them she fumbled whilst trying to get up. The farmer was now about 15 feet away the woman finally got up she was about to run when the knocked her back down she was screaming the farmer swung his axe over his head ready to swing down he said ''I got you bitch why would you do this to us we could of been something'' the axe came down split her head into two with blood oozing out of the half's. The farmer fell to the ground and breathed in and out heavy.

One day later (2nd of December)
Blue lights were flashing in the middle of the town center where the cops have sealed off a zone around a body of a young woman that had been brutally killed ''step a side please'' this voice came from one person pushing thought the crowed of people that have been standing there staring at the body that has been untouched accepted from the head that has been split in two half's. The person finally made it through the crowed it was Detective Robbets ''can we get everyone back please this is a murder scene and we would like it if you could please pay your respects somewhere else thank you''  

Summary on the rest of the film

The detective is a female and has been on the case for the start of the year there have has been 48 murders so far. she investigates and comes across the farmers barn and comes across some contraptions the farmer has made and she gets put in some by the farmer to see if she is worthy.
She is hurt badly and in the end kills the farmer and nearly dies in the process.

 The main selling point of this film

It sounds Original because not many horror films have farmers in them the horror films that do have a farmer in are normally gory and have a weird story line.
15 certificate's are normally best sellers as there are more younger people who want to watch horror movies nowa-days so more teens will watch this.



What is a Pitch

Pitch

A pitch is a presentation of an idea for a film or TV series generally made by a screenwriter or director to a producer or studio executive in the hope of attracting development finance to pay for the writing of a screenplay.

The pitch must contain the main plot of the film or TV series but in our case it has to be a horror film, so we need the plot to be able to have an opening sequence. In my pitch i have a plot, location, characters, i think about the audience as well and inspiration to tell who you are trying to sell it to what it would be like or even better than the inspiration that you used. 

Plot: The plot is most important part of every film as if you don't have a plot then you don't have a film, the plot is a sequence of events that relate to each other to create a story.

Location:  The location is a good thing to tell your investors as they could help or even like the idea of the location and the plot then your away if he/she don't like the characters then you could change it as you now have the money to fund the project.

Characters: The characters are important if they fit well with your plot and location that you have a associated them with if not then you can just change a few things to get the right characters for your project.

Audience : When talking about the audience you want to present your project to it i very important that you look at the BBFC classification for each age, do a questionnaire so you know the audience you intended it for and if you get the positive feed back that you predicted then you could show this research as well in the pitch. 

Our Pitch For Our Horror Opening Sequence

Pitch Video 1

In this video we pitch our new film idea to the class to see what they think to the idea and what they had to say about it. In this video you will only see me and jack as our third partner was un-able to make it, this was our first time pitching and making a pitch up, as you see in the second video we have made a lot of improvements to our pitch.   

Pitch Video 2 

This video i would say was the better one of the two as we had put more information on our pitch and made it sound better and more professional plus we had our third partner of our group with as he was un-able to make the first pitch video so we did another one with him, jack had control of the camera so that helped him to practice before we actually film out horror film opening sequence.   

Ideas for The Location of The Horror Opening Sequence

Location Ideas 

The location is a very important part to the film as we need a place to set the atmosphere to the audience we want the audience to have shivers and to fear this place when they see it through out the film. The atmosphere is very important at the start of a film as it sets the feeling through out the film. We would like it to be out in an open space so when the victim escapes the clutches of the killer she is lost as she is discombobulated and then is killed later on when she if fount by the killer as he knows there is no escape. 

So I started to watch some horror films, the ones that i watched they where set in different places e.g. Saw the saw series has a different location in each film. Saw 1 was set in a mock up bath room, Saw 2 was set in a house, Saw 3 was set in a warehouse same with 4 and 5 but 6,7 are set around the city that the whole place is based around but the locations of the films are enclosed with houses which is what we don't want.

The next film was The Descent this film has a great location as it is set in the woods in a cave, cave is a great place to go as the lighting wouldn't be hard to control if we only used a touch also if the victim did get out the cave then she would be lost in the wood which is a great idea but there is only on problem there is not a cave around Wisbech.

The last film i watched was The Shining, the location was a great idea with a hotel in the middle of a mounting  where if you was to go out you would freeze to death, if you stayed out to long with no protection to the freezing temperature plus where would you go you are miles away from civilization so there is no where to go but to stay in the hotel.

 I like this idea so i thought what about if  it was on a farm as some farms are in the middle of know where and when its at night then you would not be able to know where you are plus the feeling of being in a barn where the killer kills his animals is just not nice especially with that's where he had killed other victims. The location is now set and its a good thing i know a person who has a farm that we can use.