Planning of our Horror Film!

Plot of the film
As soon as me, Rebecca, Johnny and Adam sat down as a group, we looked at stereotypes of a horror film, and what we had seen and learnt in other horror films. We carried on this procedure and eventually came up with the idea of a cursed book. We then had to find a way of linking this in a believable and realistic way, and we came up with a young man finding it in a field, but we were never to sure on this idea. We kept on thinking and we thought of the book being delivered to them through their letterbox. After this occurred, every occupant in the family became cursed, and they all noticed this through signs, and strange occurrences around the house. We also thought that most of the Horror films that our group had seen in the past had a bad, shocking ending, so we decided to set the house into flames, and the person who did it would be the author of the book that was delivered through the door.

Title of the Film
In my opinion, this was the hardest part of the task, and if I'm honest took us the longest to do. Our group came up with many idea's, but we thought that as the main prop in the film was the book that gets delivered at the start, we would try our best to base it around that. We first had an idea of naming the film after the author of the books name, but we could never quite get it right. After loads of research and loads of ideas, a member of our group came up with the name 'Chapter 4'. We all thought this was a good idea, because we imagined that in the whole film, the main part of the book could be at chapter 4, or that could be where the films ends, so we decided to work on that idea.

Production Company
As a group, we all got together to try and think of a good production company name. We firstly cam up with names such as 'Household Vengence' or 'Prevoked removal', but then we thought we would go for something more relevant. Before we started this, we had to think of a name that linked to our genre, which was Horror. So we first though of connotations of horror, and we got two words, blood and scream. We thought the word blood would be a tad to gory, so we worked on the word scream. A thought then came to mind, which was that people watch films in Cinema's on 'the big screen', so we thought of changing the word 'screen' to 'scream'. So the final idea of the production company name was 'Big Scream Productions', and we all agreed that it fitted the genre perfectly, and was quite a catchy name.

Characters and Setting
We all agreed on the idea that a young couple had just moved into their new home, so we instantly needed a young male and female. We also thought that it would be a great way to get the film going with a News Report. We carried on this idea, and thought it would be a great way to foreshadow later events, as on the news there could be some kind of fire, which is the way our films ends. This meant that we would need two news reporters, and we decided to go with one male and one female. The final role we needed to give out was the role of the author, who was initially haunting the house.

The setting we had chose was a house, and this was an obvious choose because we needed to show the young couple moving into somewhere. This would also fit with our genre completely, as most of the horror films i have recently watched were set in a house.