Logo, Audience Profile, Codes and Conventions, Analysis of Title Sequence

This week in Leanne's class, within our film groups we were set four tasks to complete:

-Research the codes and conventions of horror, paying attention to title sequences

 

-Write an audience profile (primary and secondary) for your film's target audience

 

-Analyse one sequence from chosen genre individually and one as a group. Note any features to include in own work. 

 

-Invent a production company and design a logo for it. 

This is our logo for our production company; it is a combination of our first initials (Terry, Aiden, Louis, Lauren). As our production comapny produce films within the horror genre we decided to use simplistic and dark colours.

Codes and Conventions:

-low key lighting

-faint images

-foreshadowing of bloodshed

-isolation

-scenery – rural

-foreshadowing

-killer – glimpse of character

-sets equilibrium

-knife – foreshadowing – physical weapons

-medical imagery – experiments

-dark clothing, not suits, jeans and t-shirts, trainers

-hand held – shaky

-close ups

-tracking

-point of view shots

-low and high angle shots

-pan movement

-establishing – isolation

Features to include with title sequence:

• Handheld footage
• Generally slow paced editing (slow motion)
• Orchestral music
• Connotations of blood
• Connotations of weapons