Website building

I have chosen Wix to make my first prototype with which has proven successful. I have embedded a video of 'the strangers' to give an idea of what it will look like when I have put our own trailer on the website. I have used the same font throughout to give the film a branding and have chosen the colour scheme black white and red being the conventional horror colours.

this is the finished prototype.

http://www.wix.com/chloehenrykaddie/patient13

Villain Costume Ideas

We wanted the villain in our trailer to look particularly menacing and so we researched several different horror films and observed the costumes and mannerisms of the villains.  It became obvious very early on that we would need to cast our villain as someone of not only a tall build, but a slightly bulky one too so as to increase the characters presence on-screen. Here are some short analyses of villains from horror/slasher films we looked at:  

Halloween (2007) – Michael Myers wears a dark coloured and very tatty body suit with boots and an expressionless mask which is particularly unnerving. His weapon is a knife.

Friday the 13^th (2009) – Jason Voorhees wears similarly tatty clothes to Michael – a baggy and battered jacket adding extra mass to his appearance and a dark torn jumper underneath. He dons a hockey mask to hide his face. His weapon is a machete.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) – Interestingly enough, Leatherface’s costume is not a particularly menacing or suspicious one. He wears a shabby black suit and tie with a white shirt, with a disturbing mask made out of human flesh which gives him a brutally insane edge. Without need to say it, his weapon is a chainsaw.

My Bloody Valentine (2009) – Harry Warden wears a dirty, dark coloured mining suit with boots and gloves so that not a single part of humanity is evident. He wears a mining hat with a light on and a menacing gas mask with it. His weapon is a pickaxe.

After analysing each of these characters we decided to take different aspects of them to create our villain for our trailer. We gave him a white t-shirt in order to symbolise that he was once an ordinary, sane person and to offset the audience's expectations and give them some slight hope that at some point in the film he may display sanity. We gave him a dilapidated grey jacket and a semi-opaque plastic mask with a strangely unpleasant face on it which we do not make very visible in the trailer. Our weapon of choice was an axe, as we thought that it was particularly menacing and suited the mood of our trailer.

Typography for our title

We have decided to have our title in the style of a typewriter font, because that is the font that was used to record documents at the asylum. The old style creates a sense of realism and also makes the viewer think of data, which takes away any human feeling to it and therefore makes the viewer feel uneasy.

Storyboard

We have drawn out a storyboard after visiting our location to guide us with our camera shots when we next visit to film, we took into consideration our genre research and questionnaire results, as well as our own ideas to create an original plot, for example we have gone against conventions of horror by having only male victims:

West Park Asylum Shots

After seeing impressive photos of West Park Asylum on http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/tags.php?tag=epsom, an urban exploration website, we decided to visit the location to see if it is an ideal filming location for our teaser trailer. We think so, it is clearly derelict and fits our horror genre for an eerie abandoned location, as you can see from the photos we took: