Independant Research!

Titles
I concentrated some of my research on the title of many popular films. As a group, it took us ages to come up with a suitable and an appropriate name for our film. I had a look at films like 'Paranormal Activity', and i noticed that they use quite dramatic words in their title, but then other films such as 'Mirrors' didn't. I liked the idea that 'Mirrors' had, where they base the title of the film on the main prop used, which was a mirror. In our film its a book, so i think we should go with something based on the book.

Plots
After researching 'Paranormal Activity's plot, i thought that it would suit ours perfectly if we went for something vaguely similar. The plot of the film is basically about a young couple who have just recently moved into their home, and it becomes haunted. This was the main idea for our film, which is why i thought it would be common logic to do some serious research on this film, which is why quite a lot of it is on 'Paranormal Activity'.

Actors
We noticed, that in most horror movies we research, the woman is the one that mainly gets scared and picked on the most. Examples of this could be shown in 'Scream'. Also, the women are shown as quite weak and vulnerable, so we tried our best to base our actor on them traits. The male characters in most films, not just horrors, are often lazy, and do not seem to do much, which is again what we tried to show in our young male character.

Directors
We had a look at some key directors, such as 'Steven Spielberg', and I personally looked at how he manages situations. As I was the director of our film, i sort of had to use him as a role model. This helped me a lot.

Settings
If i am honest, most of the horror films that i had witnessed were set in house, including 'Scream', 'Paranormal Activity 1, 2 and 3' etc. As i enjoyed both of these films, and found them to be really popular among the British public, i thought it would be a good idea to base ours around a house. I think this is a good setting, because it shows that anything could happen, and in most films, people have recently moved into a new home, which can always bring a sense of the unknown.

Research on Popular Horror Films!

I decided to do a bit of individual research ahead of the planning of our own film. I thought that this would help me as it would give me ideas, of which I could inform the group of. I think that every bit of research that i complete will benefit the group in every way.

Paranormal Activity
This is a very popular horror film, and the third one has just recently been released into Cinemas. The film is distributed by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, but the studio was Blumhouse Productions. The film is directed by Oren Peli. In the first film the main plot of this film is that their is a young couple, who had recently moved into a house they had just bought. However, the young woman, Katie, is not completely content on the idea, and she believes that her past is going to follow her into the house, but the film refers to it as an evil presence. As the young couple discover something is not quite right about their new home, the young man, Micah, sets up cameras around the house so that he can witness what goes on when they sleep. After this many strange things continue to happen, and creep out the young couple.
This helped me a lot, and this film edged us towards the idea of having a young couple, that have recently moved into a brand new house. Also, we are going to try to get the couple to work together in our one, against the antagonists who are trying to fear them, which is what happens in the first Paranormal Activity.

The Descent
This film was directed by Neil Marshall. The films studio was
 Celador Films and Northmen Productions, but the distributors included Pathe and Lionsgate. The main plot of this film is that there is a group of females, and early on in the film there is a car crash, where two of the character die. They get re-united with the group about a year later, and start going out thrill-seeking again. They visit a cave near by, however, it does not go to plan, as one of the members of the group discover that they are in an unknown cave, so once they got stuck, no one would have been able to find them, or rescue them. We wanted to try and make our film a bit similar to this, as they all ready had a little family, and we also want to try and introduce a shock early in our film.
I enjoyed watching this film, and it kept my interest throughout, and as I watched the film throughout fully, I was able to get more information from it.

Filming Schedule!

The Opening Scene
We will have to film the news report seperatley from the rest of the opening scene, in order for us to get it on a disc and play it at the start of the opening scene. We will film this on 6/12/11., and then we will film the actual opening scene the next day, which would be 7/12/11.

The Title Sequence
We will film this on 14/12/11, with our group.