Hallowed Props

Hallowed Props

The Priest: The priest will firstly be wearing a robe, and will be carrying a short Saxon sword with a sheath.

John Cena: John Cena in the film will firstly be tied up with ropes and be wearing a bloodied t-shirt.

Randy Normous: Randy Normous will have a phone which he uses the torch on the phone to find his way round.

The Set: There will be a torch which we use for lighting in the darkened room.

Hallowed Target Audience

Hallowed Target Audience

The target audience for Hallowed is supposed to appeal to the teenage and young adults and mainly male audience.

The reason why we wanted to appeal to the young male audience is because horror and gore wouldn’t necessarily appeal to an older or more feminine audience and most current horror films also focus on a younger audience.

We would also would like to attract an older audience by making the film less cliché and like the current brand of horror films like insidious and saw because those the films tend to make the characters quite thick in their actions which gets them into the situations however we want to make the characters act in a sensible and realistic why to make it really seem like there’s nothing that can be done to stop the creature.

 

Hallowed Stereotypes

Stereotypes

Mise en scene

The creature which is a demented mid-evil priest which has been haunting this hall and he will be wearing some black robes with and hood with a standard braided rope around the waist.

The character John Cena is the first victim we see in the film and he will be wear a bloodied white t-shirt with some old tatty cargo trousers and old running shoes and will be bloodied and bruised, also in the start of the scene he will be tied up with rope around his arms and torso.

The character Randy Normous who is the friend who is looking for John Cena and the character we follow for most of the opening of the film and he’ll be wearing a shirt and a hooded coat with jeans or chinos and vans.

Subverting stereotypes

We are trying to go against the standard cliché and stereotypes of normal horror films and try to make the characters make relatively sensible decisions and not to involve Ouija boards or spiritual references as most horror films do and we want to make it seem like there’s nothing that can be done to stop the demented Priest from abducting the charcters.

Audio

With the audio we need to focus a lot on the surroundings and the sound footsteps make when they’re hitting on the wooden floor and other things including the music or soundtrack that’s going to be put over the film.

Dialogue

There is going to be limited dialogue in the film to increase the tension and to focus on the actions of the characters.

Body Language

The body language of the demented priest is that he’s going to be standing up straight with his arms out to make it look like he’s constantly doing something.

Film Annotation continued

 SETTINGS: We set this film at Oxshott scout hut in, our main reason for this was because it was quite secluded, and we could rent out the area for the day and be able to hold one of ieuan's bb guns without people wanting to call the police on us thinking we are holding a real gun. The place had lots of trees around it so it allowed for some good lighting which we could use to our advantage. The setting conforms with the conventions of a action/crime film because it is secluded and is quite synonymous with a area which drug dealers would be in.

CAMERA WORK: for our camera work and editing, we had mainly relied on the tripod to help us film and keep the camera stabilized throughout our filming. also, we had tried many different shot types and experimented with mixing up shots in order to create a chain of events which could gradually work together and form a clip. also, the editing process was quite vigorous because we had to ensure that the music was fitting, as well as cutting and editing each clip, as well as shortening and lengthening the shots using various tools on adobe premier elements. Our camera shots conform with action and crime film style camera shots because they are relatively quick and sudden, and most are shot reverse shot from the fighters if there is a fight scene.

SPECIAL EFFECTS: because we filmed an action film, we had generally thought that our initial plan was to avoid so much special effects, however we did decide to add certain sound effects to enhance the fight scene, because it ensured that the ''hits'' would have an actual impact ( through the viewer's eyes ) and so that was the only special effect we really used, apart from the introduction where it fades from our logo to the start on the opening two minutes. This conforms with the conventions of action films because most action films and crime films have very little effects, for example. there is an occasional gun shot but in action/ crime films is very rare and only happens at least twice at a gun fight around the plot. also, because the fight scenes make up most of action films, this means that very little effects are needed, there may be an occasional blood splatter or saliva being thrown across the room because they got knocked out, but we decided to try to avoid all of this as we wanted to keep it simple as much as we could.

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