Costume

Estate Agent

As the estate agent is trying to impress the couple to encourage them to buy the house, he will therefore be 'dressed to impress'.  He will be dressed in:

A blue shirt with white collars and cuffs, often seen on young inexperienced businessmen.

Grey pinstripe trousers. They are smart but not as formal as a black pair of trousers.

A predominately red tie but with little pattern, bright but not to garish.

Brown brogues. not overly formal but not too casual either. The estate agent is still young and will therefore care about his image.













Husband


The husband will be casually dressed throughout as he does not have a formal job.
When they are shown around the house he may wear just a T-shirt and jeans with casual trainers.

Once they have moved in he will mostly wear plain pyjama trousers and a t-shirt, possibly with a dressing gown and slippers to take away the divide between day and night and to show his abnormal behaviour, as most people get dressed during the day.

 Wife


The wife will be dressed very formally throughout as she is a high powered business woman. she will therefore be dressed in a formal business suit for almost the entirety of the trailer.

                                                              Doctor 

The doctor will be dressed in very smart clothes as he is in a formal profession.  He will probably wear a smart suit and a beige work coat with smart work shoes and a tie.

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Studio Research

because of the nature of horror films the audience is fairly limited. it would therefore be beneficial for  us to extend our audience internationally. As we want to avoid using a mainstream Hollywood production company. To extend our audience internationally, in particular to the United States (where the biggest market for the horror genre is), we would therefore need to use two production companies. One would be a  British independent production company and the other would be an 'indiewood' production company.

UK production company: Hammer Film Productions:
Hammer Film Productions are a UK based company that are well known for making low key, not overdramatic, horror films. recently the have produced "The Woman in Black" a film about a man in an isolated position who falls victim to the serial and the supernatural, a film similar in style and tone to our own. The company has recently made a come back after a long pause between films.  A UK based company will also allow us to tap into the mainland european market.

http://www.imdb.com/company/co0103101/

US production company: Ghost House Pictures
Ghost house pictures is a US based company that specialises in Horror movies. although the horrors that they make are more high key they will allow us to release our film in the US with a greater chance of success as this is where the greatest market for horror films is. the company is known for films including The Grudge series, Drag Me to Hell and 30 Days of Night amongst many others.

http://www.imdb.com/company/co0116611/

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Music

This music is brooding and sinister which would fit with the tone of our film. It is also fairly slow paced which keeps tension. As the fear created in our film would be more based around tension than action this would be appropriate fast paced music, however, would be inappropriate. We particularly like the effect of the loud string sounds at the beginning and we will try to find music that replicates this.

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Character Plans

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Location

The use of this window could prove to be very effective. There are curtians behind which something/someone could appear from the garden, but upon inspection in the room, it is clear that no such intruder was present.

So we see a young couple led round a delightful looking house in suburbia

It soon becomes clear that things arent as they seemed at first...

Images appear momentarily that arent there on second glances

when it's dark outside, lights shine in through the curtains to create eerie feelings

apparitions appear throughout the house-

 sillouhettes in doors- created simply with someone standing behind the glass panel and the light behind them showing an outline of their form.

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Trailer Plan: Writer's Block

Our trailer will comprise of three acts:

Act 1:

• Slow pace.
• The first thing the audience sees is the ident- production company.
• An initially happy couple are shown around a house.
• The estate agent asks them what they do for a living wife says she's a lawyer and the husband a writer.
• When asked about previous owners the estate agent skirts round the question.
• The couple sign the papers and buy the house.
• They move in and everything is ok for a while and they are a happy young couple in a new house.

Act 2:

• Medium pace.
• While the wife goes out to work the husband sits down to begin writing.
• We see that he is struggling to write.
• Strange things begin to happen to him.
• The wife becomes aware that something isn't right.
• A doctor comes to talk to the husband and says he'll be back.

Act 3:

• Very fast pace.
• In this part of the trailer it becomes apparent that things are getting worse.
• The wife becomes very anxious as the husband appears to be more insane.
• The husband seems to be obsessed with the history of the house.
• The wife tries the doctor again and gets the answering machine
• The strange events become more frequent and more intense as shown in a montage where said strange events and behaviour from the husband are cross cut with images of the anxious wife.
• there is a sudden cut from the montage to the title of the film 'Writers Block' with the cast underneath.

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Audience Research (Prezi)

Audience Research on Prezi

audience would be aimed at the 14-24 age category

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