A typical horror film usually features a group of teenagers or a family with young children that either become involved in the murderous games of a psychopathic serial killer or they are terrorized by a supernatural presence. Horror films are usually set in abandoned or isolated locations that can be known for having a bad past. For example: a warehouse; a forest or an abandoned house are stereotypical settings for a conventional horror film.
A professionally made horror short film - textual analysis
In this short film a man is finishing his day at work and getting ready to go home. He then receives an email titled 'goodbye', to which a video is attached. He clicks on the email and starts to download the attached file. He opens the attachment to find a video of an anxious woman sitting at a desk in a dark room, filming herself on what appears to be a computer webcam. In the video the woman is talking, whilst in the background of the video we can see a dark-clothed figure walking towards her from the back of the room. The video continues as the dark figure moves closer, and the shot changes to the man, as we see a white clothed woman appear behind the man...
In general I like this video because the idea is cool, although I did see many similar videos while searching for horror short films. There is, in particular, one shot that I do like which is the shot where we see the man put the cup in the coffee machine and the camera changes to a shot from behind the cup. I think that this is a cool shot because its unique and gives a different perspective of what's happening in the scene. If possible I would like to use a shot like this for my coursework because I really like it and it's different.
If I were to create a piece of coursework in this genre then I would most likely make a short film. A possible idea would be to do a continuation of my AS coursework; revealing what happens to the girl after she has been kidnapped. With this I may use the idea of flashbacks to show what the girl was previously up to the day or two before. This would mainly be scenes of her socialising with friends and having fun. These flashbacks would then be cut with shots of her in a dark and empty room. I am not too sure how this film would end without it being too long. Another idea would be to cut shots of her in a dark room with shots of people putting up missing posters/a police investigation into finding her. With this film I would leave it as a cliff hanger so we would see shots of the police walking through a dark corridor trying to find the room that the girl is in; this would be cut with shots of the door from inside the room (girl's point of view), hearing people in the corridor. As the police get closer to the door the cuts between the two shots gets quicker and the music will be more dramatic. There will be no or little dialogue in this scene so music will be used to build tension. The film would end with the police opening the door and revealing only a small part of the dark room, and then cut to black. This would mean that neither the audience or the characters would know if the girl was found or not...
Below is my AS coursework from which this idea would follow from:
If I were to create a piece of coursework in this genre then I would most likely make a short film. A possible idea would be to do a continuation of my AS coursework; revealing what happens to the girl after she has been kidnapped. With this I may use the idea of flashbacks to show what the girl was previously up to the day or two before. This would mainly be scenes of her socialising with friends and having fun. These flashbacks would then be cut with shots of her in a dark and empty room. I am not too sure how this film would end without it being too long. Another idea would be to cut shots of her in a dark room with shots of people putting up missing posters/a police investigation into finding her. With this film I would leave it as a cliff hanger so we would see shots of the police walking through a dark corridor trying to find the room that the girl is in; this would be cut with shots of the door from inside the room (girl's point of view), hearing people in the corridor. As the police get closer to the door the cuts between the two shots gets quicker and the music will be more dramatic. There will be no or little dialogue in this scene so music will be used to build tension. The film would end with the police opening the door and revealing only a small part of the dark room, and then cut to black. This would mean that neither the audience or the characters would know if the girl was found or not...
Below is my AS coursework from which this idea would follow from:
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