REVISED TO DO LIST!

Before I can start filnming I must:
Do an animatric for my completed storyboard;
Complete my second version of my script and post it to my blog;
Organise the props I will be needing for my film and notify the actors I will be using of filming times and locations.

Updated Script

My previous dialogue wasn't very good, so I have decided to start a new screenplaty with improved dialogue. Here is my progress so far.

Jack Fisher

Murder Creek script

INT. OPENING SEQUENCE. CHICO LA MATTA IS GATHERING HIS BELONGINGS FROM HIS OCKER AT IN THE OAK BUILDING AT WYKE COLLEGE.

Enter Valerie Lovegood.

                                                              Chico:

 HEY! Valerie, what are you up to later?

Valerie:

Nothing, why?

Chico:

                            Well I just wondered if you fancied coming out to MAKEOUT CREEK with me, I’ll pick you up at 7?

Valerie:

It’s a date.

EXT. ‘MAKEOUT CREEK’, A POPULAR HANGOUT FOR LOCAL TEENS. CHICO AND VALERIE ARE IN CHICO’S CAR. CHICO’S CAR IS THE ONLY ONE THERE, THE PLACE IS DESERTED.

CHICO

(in a creepy tone)

It’s so deserted, pretty creepy.

VALERIE

Stop it, you’re scaring me,

(sits bolt upright)

what was that?

CHICO

What? I didn’t hear anything? It’s just your mind playing tricks on you.

VALERIE

This Week

Over the course of this week I have finished my storyboard, which I will be transforming into my animatrix on Friday. I will also be posting the final draft of my script later this week.

Progress

This week I have been finalising my storyboard for my imagined film and qill have it completed, ready to do anamatrix on Monday.

This Week

This week I have been focusing on finalize my storyboard, which I aim to have finished by next week.
I have also been making ammendments to my script which I will post next week.

Third Version Of My Aims And Context.

Jack Fisher

Aims and Context

Context: For my FM3 creative project I will be filming the opening  sequence from my imagined film ‘Murder-Creek’.

Aims: This sequence will be used to establish the narrative for my film. The target audience for my film is a mainstream audience aged 16-24, this type of film will be aimed at mainly females, who will want to go to see the film with their boyfriends. The target audience will be mainly working-class as the narrative is high concept and doesn’t rely on the audience’s concentration. I will be applying the use of cinematography to create meaning in the sequence, as I learned whilst doing my FM1 creative project. I will also be focusing on the use of sound in my sequence, to create tension among the audience. The main influence of my film is the ‘teen slasher’ genre, and I will be looking for inspiration in films such as Scream.

Word count: 157

This Week

This week I have been working towards the completion of my script for my imagined film. I intend to have the script and the storyboard completed by Friday next week so that I will be able to start filming the following week. Also this week I have edited my aims and context in ordet to ensure that it is correct. I have also completed and posted the Todorov Narrative design for my imagined film.

Revised Aims and Context

Jack Fisher

Aims and Context

Context: For my FM3 creative project I will be filming the opening  sequence from my imagined film ‘Murder-Creek’.

Aims: This sequence will be used to establish the narrative for my film. The target audience for my film is a mainstream audience aged 14-25, this type of film will be aimed at mainly females, who will want to go to see the film with their boyfriends. The target audience will be mainly working-class as the narrative is high concept and doesn’t rely on the audience’s concentration. I will be applying the use of cinematography to create meaning in the sequence, as I learned whilst doing my FM1 creative project. I will also be focusing on the use of sound in my sequence, to create tension among the audience. The main influence of my film is the ‘teen slasher’ genre, and I will be looking for inspiration in films such as Scream.

Word count: 157

Narrative Structure

This is the Todorov narative structure for my imagined film 'Murder Creek', this demonstrates the structure of the story, showing the equilibrium, the disruption, the solution and the resolved equilibrium for my film.

To Do List

Before filming commences I will need to do the following:

• Complete my script;
• Complete my storyboard;
• Finalise the list of props I will need;
• Arrange filming times and locations;
• Notify my actors of the times and locations of filming

Scream - Garage Scene

This Scene from Scream shows the nature of the violence which is used in the 'Teen-Slasher' genre. This clip also demonstrates the use of sound, with the use of music whic is filled with suspense as the violence comes to a climax. This clip also shows the loose morals of teenagers portrayed in the genre, as the female in the scene is carrying a large ammount of alcohol, reinforcing the idea that in films of this genre it is usually the characters who display morals and maturity who survive the killing spree.

The Brief

For my creative project I have chosen to develop an extended sequence from my imagined feature 'Murder-Creek', my sequence will be between 3-5 minutes long. I will be looking at the issues raised in FM1 in relation to the production of meaning and the study of stylistics and theory. I will be undertaking this task as an individual.

All Nightmare On Elm Street Murders

this video contains several examples of the types of brutal murders seen in films of the teen slasher genre, which has given me inspiration for the nature of the murders in my sequence.

Halloween

Above is an image of Michael Myers from the teen slasher film Halloween, I will be using this type of shot for my film in order to give tyhe feeling of the victim being trapped, this is through the use of mise-en-scene in the use of the bannister rail, which is shown to represent bars on a prison cell or a cage. This mise-en-scene is also useful to me as I will be using a similar type of costume for my killer and he will also be using a knife for his murders. Also the cinematography in this shot is used to give the murderer the position of powe, this I will also be using in my film to put the murderer in the position of power.

Aims and Context of my imagined film, 'Murder-Creek'

Jack Fisher

Aims and Context

For my FM3 creative project I will be filming an extended sequence from my imagined film ‘Murder-Creek’. This sequence will be used to establish the narrative for my film. The target audience for my film is a mainstream audience aged 16-25.  I will be applying the use of cinematography to create meaning in the sequence, as I learned whilst doing my FM1 creative project. I will also be focusing on the use of sound in my sequence, to create tension among the audience. The main influence of my film is the ‘teen slasher’ genre, and I will be looking for inspiration in films such as Scream, with regards to the stylistics I will be using.

Word count: 124 words

Second week of work, synopsis of my imagined film 'Murder Creek'

Jack Fisher

Synopsis for my imagined film ‘Murder Creek’

 I will be making the opening sequence of my imagined film ‘Murder Creek’.

 My film begins with two college, Chico La Mata (Mike Davies) and Valerie Lovegood (Paige Drewery), students at the local hangout ‘make-out creek’ in the backseat of a car. These students are then brutally murdered and mutilated by a mysterious masked assailant (Geordan Gaukroger).

 The film then skips to  a month ahead, when Anna Rustler (the protagonist)  return to college after the summer break. The college is rife with rumours as to the murders of the students a month previous. As the term passes through September a number of other students are mysteriously murdered, leading to lots of speculation within the college and a full blown police investigation. The murders continue to get more and more brutal, however this is ignored when cheerleader Cindy Johnson has a party while her parents are away. This inevitably results in a hoard of drunken teenagers with loose morals being murdered in various ways, however Anna abstains from drinking in order to carry on attempting to work out who the killer is, when she has a revelation and works out that the killer is actually a college student at her college, the subject of years of bullying Cecil Donovan. But it is too late for her to save her peers who were at the party, as it resulted in a blood bath. The day is then saved when she alerts the police and they discover Donovan attempting to flee the scene of the crime. Resulting in a return to equilibrium for Anna.

First week of work, conventions of the 'Teen Slasher' genre.

Jack Fisher

Conventions of the Teen Slasher genre

 For my Film Studies creative project I have chosen to film to create a film of the horror genre. I will be filming a sequence from My imagined film ‘Murder Creek’, which will contain the conventions of a ‘teen-slasher’, which is a sub-genre of horror. 

 The teen slasher film usually contains a psychopathic killer, who stalks and preys on his victims, killing them one by one, usually in a violent and graphic manner. The killer is usually stalking one person in particular, but in the process of getting to his chosen victim, has to murder people associated with the victim, usually using a cutting instrument, such as a chainsaw or axe, to murder his victims. This is demonstrated in Scream (Wes Craven, 1996, USA) in Which the psychopathic murderer dresses in the famous Scream mask, graphically murdering one student after another with a knife, in order to get to the character who he is intending to kill, Sidney Prescott.

 In teen slasher movies the psychopathic murder usually has a connection with the victim who they intend to murder, as seen in the film Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven, 1980, U.S.A), in which the victims are attacked from beyond the grave by a former child murderer who was brutally burnt to death by the parents of the victims, giving the killer a vengeful motive for the murders.

 Recent Slasher have tended to conform to following a particular formula , which starts with a past event (such as the accidental running over of a man in I Know What You Did Last Summer, or Freddy Kruger’s loss of life in Nightmare on Elm Street) ), which is followed by  the present tense, usually at a time which is relevant to the past even, again as in I Know What You Did Last Summer, where the main character receives a letter saying I know what you did last summer, exactly a year after the accidental killing of a man. This event is followed by the killer bringing about what he or she believes to be retribution, as in Nightmare On

Elm Street

, with Freddy Kruger murdering the children of the people who had brought him to justice.

 The killer in the slasher genre is usually a male, who’s identity isn’t known to the victims and is disguised using clever lighting and cinematography.

  The victim’s in the slasher genre are typically young and attractive high school or college students, who are often found drinking and having sex at parties while the killer is at large, leaving themselves vulnerable to attack, as in Scream, where a character goes to the garage to fetch more alcohol and is trapped under the garage’s automatic door. The sole survivor of the killer’s brutal reign is usually a female friend of the victims, who is wary of their rebellious actions, choosing not to partake in acts such as underage drinking and pre marital sex, however this doesn’t apply to all teen slasher, as sometimes there is a single male character left after the killing spree.

 Teen Slasher films tend to be high concept in that they focus more on gratuitous levels of violence, leaving an actual plot and dialogue to a minimal.

 The opening sequence of a teen slasher often consists of the past event for which the killer is taking his vengeance on the teenagers, this establishes who the main group of characters will be in the narrative and the reasons for which they will be murdered. This sequence is usually followed by a scene containing the first murders of the killer, this is the type of sequence I have opted to do for my creative project.

 The above are the conventions of the ‘Teen-slasher’ genre, which I have chosen for my creative project, these are the conventions I will be aiming to use for when filming my imagined film ‘Murder Creek’.