Friends in a circle, holding hands surrounding candles lit, chanting curse read from the possessed book on the table.
ANISHA, QASIM, ROSINA AND SAPNA (TENSELY) “Battle not with evil spirits lest ye become a evil spirit; and if you gaze into the eyes of the evil spirit, the evil will come into you.”
Hear ruffling sounds.
Silence.
Close up of the possessed book.
THE CURSE – BANG – ARIESES (static screen)
INT. QASIM’S HOUSE – DAYTIME
Ghost does a spider walk on the stairs, making weird noises.
Static screen appears.
EXT. IN THE PARK – DAYTIME
QASIM is walking in the park. He then hears a weird sound therefore he turns around to see who is there. GHOST appears but when QASIM looks back the ghost is no longer there. GHOST is highlighted – static effect.
INT. ANISHA’S HOUSE – NIGHT
GHOST appears and zooms quickly in the camera. STATIC SCENE.
INT. ANISHA’S HOUSE – NIGHT
ANISHA is under a table, she hovers her hand up to the table and then feels the GHOSTS feet. ANISHA screams.
INT. ANISHA’S HOUSE – NIGHT
GHOST’S hands hovers over the door. Static effect.
INT. QASIM’S HOUSE – NIGHT
QASIM closes the door and turns around in horror. Static effect.
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ANISHA turns around tensely. Static effect.
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SAPNA looks up the stairs scared.
(Quietly) “Who’s there? What do you want from me?”
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ROSINA in the bath looking up scared
(Loudly) “What the hell do you want!”
GHOST appears and then goes. Static effect.
INT. SAPNA’S HOUSE – NIGHT
SAPNA sleeping quietly, windows are wide open. The GHOST touches her face, hovers her hand to her eyes and one of SAPNA’S eyes open. Static effect.
EXT. HARBOURNE WALKWAY
GHOST is acting weirdly
EXT. PARK – DAYTIME
SONIA in the park explaining to QASIM, SAPNA, ROSINA and ANISHA (tensely) “You need to find part two of the possessed book or otherwise…”
BANG sound.
INT. QASIM’S HOUSE- DAYTIME
QASIM is in the hallway, GHOST is behind hime but he does not realize. QASIM turns around (Shouts) “Who’s there?”
INT. ANISHA’S HOUSE – NIGHT
NO MATTER WHAT YOU HEAR
ROSINA is trying to escape from the GHOST however GHOST touches her hand. ROSINA screams. The GHOST pulls her to the floor; GHOST is on top of her trying to make ROSINA look into her eyes.
NO MATTER WHAT YOU SEE
INT. ANISHA’S HOUSE - NIGHT
GHOST appears in a keyhole, ANISHA screams.
IT WON’T
INT. ANISHA’S HOUSE - NIGHT
GHOST appears, and her arm is coming out of the door.
STOP UNTIL
INT. QASIM’S HOUSE - NIGHT
QASIM is shrieking in terror trying to escape, the GHOST is right behind him.
THE POSSESSED
INT. ANISHA’S HOUSE – NIGHT
Rosina is against a wall, the GHOST’S mouth is wide open leaning onto ROSINA.
IN CINEMAS 12/12/12
INT. QASIM’S HOUSE – NIGHT
SAPNA is in the bathroom washing her face. She then bends down and gets back up. She sees the reflection of the GHOST in the mirror. (Shouting/loudly) Screams.
A group of close four friends come across an old book called ‘The Possessed’ and they start to read it.
The possessed book is an ancient book that goes back to the Egyptian period. The book belongs to a superior family where the evil spirits possessed their ancient. One of the ancients survived from a tragic event that burned his family alive. He recorded all the possessive behavior his family were experiencing. This book was traveled down by his family and was treasured but never talked about.
If someone finds the book and reads it they will be cursed, and they will experience a rollercoaster of torturous events that will scare them and could be fatal. Until someone finds part 2 of the book ‘The Possessed pt 2’ they will be cursed for seven days and they will die at the end.
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One of the girls is related to the family therefore she took out the book out of interest from her mother’s treasure box. Later that evening the group of friends sit in a circle together with candles in the middle and they begin to recite some words that they don’t understand the meaning of, but they carry on reading. The words that they recite are the following:
‘How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself?’
‘Battle not with evil spirits lest ye become a evil spirit; and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.’
After they read this, they instantly get scared and nothing happens immediately so they think it is all fake. However the next day a series of unexpected events happen……….
When one of the girls goes upstairs to the her room her phone falls under the table, she goes under the table to get it when suddenly the lights switch off. She hear’s a bang on the table and when she puts her hand on the table she feels a cold soft surface and when she looks she sees a white ghost with long black hair. She screams and runs off.
(End scene) The girl is in her bathroom washing her face she bends down and when she gets back up she sees the reflection of the white ghost in the mirror and she screams.
These haunting and torturous events continue. Will the friends find ‘the Possessed pt 2’, or will it be a fatal ending?
This is our production logo and we named it 'SQK Motion Pictures'. 'SQK' stands for Showcase Qasim and Komal motion pictures. We decided to name it this because the word 'showcase' suggests that our trailer and production work is something we want everyone to see, and then we put our names because the trailer, magazine and poster is made by us.
We chose to have a picture of a Jaguar because they are scary, firece and dangerous animals. The Jaguar links in with the genre of our trailer because out trailer is horror/thriller and we want it to scare people. And so when people look at out production logo and see the picture of the Jaguar they will know our trailer is horror/thriller.
A group of friends decide to stay together and have a sleep over as one of the friends parent's have gone on holiday for a week. As a cold night comes to an end, the 4 friends end their game of monopoly. They all gather upstairs in the bathroom and brush their teeth. 3 of the friends go to their rooms, but the other one makes sure that all of the doors and windows are locked and that the downstairs alarm is on. As she has just checked that the outside back door is locked, as she turns her back to go up the stairs, the door suddenly opens. The girl closes the door and returns upstairs like nothing has happened.
It is 2am during the night and all of the friends are sleeping, but then the downstairs alarm goes off. They all wake up and get bats to see who and what is downstairs. They arrive downstairs and find nothing, so they put the alarm back on. The alarm is now on and as they walk up the stairs one of them gets dragged down. After one of them gets dragged, they all decide to sleep in the same bed.
Morning has arrived and all has been calm since 2am, today the group of friends decide to go town and so some shopping, as they return home in the evening at 6:00 the furniture and ornaments in the house seem to be messed around and put elsewhere. They all go around to the check the house , but then as they are on the landing a sudden scary looking girl appears at the bottom of the stairs staring directly at the 4 group of friends. Slowly, she walks up the stair's the group of friends scream and gather round each other. The ghost is on the landing staring at them and then opens her mouth to show the fans in her teeth. The group of friends rush into one of the bedroom's and hide.
Banging and crashing noises are heard from outside the room and the door is being scraped by the ghost's nails and she hits the door with a hammer........
Story line 2:
Name of film: The Possessed
Genre: Horror/thriller
Rating: 15
Cast: Four friends and one ghost
Story line:
Four friends read a book called 'The Possessed' and recite some words that they do not understand. They come across a myth, and they are cursed. To break the curse they have to find part two of the book so they could read the words from there so they will be free from the curse. They have seven days to live and find part two of the book or they will die, and it is going to be seven days of hell for them.
Story line 3:
Name of film: The Mansion
Genre: Horror/thriller
Rating: 15
Cast: Four friends and one ghost
Story line:
There are four people that decide to stay over in the night at a haunted mansion. The haunted mansion has five levels, and on each level they see a ghost. During the night they are unable to escape from the mansion and they are fighting for their lives.
Will they all die by the next morning, or will they survive?
Paranormal Activity 3 is best described to come under the genre of horror. This is because it has thrilling scenes which involves ghosts, possession, tense and reality which makes it scarier for the viewer.
The narrative of the feature of the film is advertising two young children spending family time with their father and mother – the father is filming his children playing on the trampoline. This all seems normal therefore it is balanced – equilibrium. Out of nowhere someone comes towards the camera with big, beady eyes. This relates to previous movies (Paranormal activity 1&2), this may catch the audience eyes to conceive about the ghost or that person.
The narrative refers back to the ‘normal’ stage for the family – the family time that the father has recorded. After that, there is a shocking and thrilling extract from the movie where someone is pulled out the room with no strings attached therefore this relates to the name of the movie as this is an example of a paranormal activity.
There seems to be a lot of static scenes which sort of acts as a transition for the trailer to move on to the next extract to tell the audience the narrative of this movie.
Again, the narrative at this point refers back to family time playing in the back garden and this time hula-hooping which tells the audience everything seems to be normal.
Furthermore the trailer reveals when this movie is releasing. And it shows the two children when they are older through a voice-over about the paranormal activity and the past. The trailer views the audience a picture which has been burned with fire around the child which seems to be clear.
It again, refers back to the family in the past in the kitchen laughing – again everything seems so normal.
The trailer then shows us the actress from Paranormal Activity 1+2 who had been possessed and it killed her bf. In part 2, she took the baby and ran away. This time the narrative tells us “the secret” which will be revealed if we watch part 3.
There is an extract from the part 3 showing the two girls as children in a room with a camera. They are then saying in the mirror three times “bloody mary” which may have provoked the ghost to interfere in their life. Who knows? – This is an open assumption made for the audience to think and to feel excited about the movie and to feel as if this movie has been a long, anticipated movie.
The trailer ends with static scenes giving a tenser ending and to feel more excited for the film and ends when the movie is going to be released which is in October.
This seems to be an effective trailer because it avoids and resolution or the ending because it leaves the audience to feel anticipated for it and it does not seem as an audience to feel like I have seen all the best bits.
Overall, the narrative is achieved through shots and a voice over. For example, when there was extracts from the family – time the voice over revealed the audience the family relation, names and what a typical family would do when spending quality time like “Katie, wave to the camera”. This reveals the audience what a typical/normal family would do when filming them. This links with the visuals of the shot because the trailer is viewing the children and the family time. Also, this sets up the narrative of the film as it is part of the “reality” and “normality” of what had happened to them was something unusual which creates the suspension and the tense atmosphere.
“I don’t remember anything”. This example of a voice over reveals that the two children as adults do not remember anything unusual. This automatically creates tense for the viewer therefore this should be considered as a good voice over because under the genre of horror it needs to create a tense and confused atmosphere. As a result who-ever enjoys this trailer may go and watch the movie later in October. This links with the visual because the trailer views us the children as adults and they were trying to remember what happened in the past which would have linked with the paranormal activity they go through. This sets up the narrative of the film because it is telling the viewers that they do not remember anything paranormal in the past which links with what is happening now for them.
“Remember the rules – say bloody Mary three times”. This dialogue instantly catches the audience attention due to the reason being as a myth by saying bloody Mary three times the ghost will appear in the mirror and will haunt you for the rest of your lives. It is bases on a story that if the Bloody Mary of Legend was beckoned it would then unleash an evil spirit from the past by chanting “Bloody Mary” into a mirror in a dark room with a candle. Maybe in this voice over the narrative has told us a bit too much in maybe why the ghost may have come to trouble them, but it could also be considered a good voice over. This is because of the myth of Bloody Mary and it has the power to spark imagination and the story used as a basis for the ghost stories.
The narrative order of the shots seems to be juggled around and not in a chronological order. But as the film is released in October 2011 I cannot really make an assumption on how it differs from the order in the trailer. But, generally all trailers are not really in chronological order. This is because the narrative of the trailer does not want to tell the whole story or reveal the best bits otherwise they would not get any audience to watch the film. As a result, I assume the trailer of Paranormal Activity shows different extracts from the movie to create more suspense and a reason why they should go and watch it.
There were 16 shots used in this trailer.
The pace of editing differs. From the beginning of the film the pace of editing is fair as it is using jump cuts to show the young children playing in the back garden. This helps to narrate the storyline and to quickly get to the point of which is supposed to create suspension for the viewers.
From 0:38 to 0:54 the pace of editing is fairly quick which builds up to the suspension from the beginning. Throughout this extract it shows bits and bobs from the movie which has scary bits and family time to create the adrenaline rush in which you would feel by watching this. As a result you would be feeling the need of wanting to watch the movie and see what is going to happen. After that, the editing pace slows down to the “bloody Mary” scene. This helps the audience to sustain their adrenaline rush into a fright! This seems to be a good tactic for trying to gain attention and with a little trailer it scares and frights the viewer.
There were static transitions used which gave off a good effect. This was to help to create the realism of the movie as it claims it was based on a true story therefore it helped to look like it was from a true story and the filming were actually real.
Also, there was a fade from white to black when the dad is filming presumably his daughters hula-hooping. The effect of this show in the concept of horror that they are in trouble or something bad is going to occur to his daughters. This probably was used to create pity for them as they are children and normal people and you could feel something bad is going to happen to them. As a result you are left feeling thinking what “bad” is going to happen to them and if they are going to ever survive.
The texts in the trailer are “This October” *clip* “Discover” *clip*”The Secret” *clip* “Behind the Activity” *clip* “Paranormal Activity 3”. This links with the visual in the movie because the trailer reveals some of the storyline which links with the text as the visual shows a part of something then the text goes with it. This is because the text then adds to the sequence. This sets up the narrative of the film because it is telling us the reason why this paranormal activity is occurring.
There is a soundtrack when the ghost or the person comes over to the camera in the bedroom. This helped create the genre of the film which is horror because as watching it, it gave me a scare and sort of spooked me.
Also, there is another soundtrack while the text reveals and it is some sort of dark sound. This instantly gave off the impression of tense and suspense which related to the genre as it is all about horror as it is trying to make the audience feel scared and ready to get frightened.
There is a medium shot of the young child jumping on the trampoline at the beginning of the film trailer. This is done to show the child playing normally and to imply everything seems to be normal and nothing is wrong. Also, it maybe is done to know what she is doing/saying and her interactions with other characters.
There is an extreme close up following from the family time of the ghost scaring the viewers. This is done to magnify the human eye would experience in reality. This was used to create a dramatic effect as at that very shot it frightens the viewers.
There is an establishing shot in the film used in where the mother is coming to check her baby toddler in his room. You could see a typical baby’s room with toys, crib and a baby. This is used to show the viewer one of the scary moments in the film and to show there is more to come.
The film 'Grudge 3' is a horror/thriller film and it is part of two other films 'Grudge' and 'Grudge 2'.
The main colors in the Grudge 3 poster are red, white and black. The color red could symbolise the blood, there is also blood on the ghost's hair. This could show that the ghost or spirit is going to kill people brutally and there is going to be a lot of blood. There is also a small boy tangled in the ghost's hair, this shows that it does not matter how old you are because the ghost will attack anyone that gets in their way. The ghost's color is white, this shows that she may look normal like a human but she has evil motives. The black could show that the ghost get's people easily on her side which is the dark side, and no one can return from the dark side.
The main image on the poster is of the main ghost that kills many people in the film. The image only shows half of her face, and it only shows one of her eye that is red. Her red eye could show how evil she is because she is taking away innocent lives. The boy that is tangled in her hair could show how she takes away innocent lives.
This poster also has a slogan which is 'the curse continues'. This could suggest that the ghost or the spirit that has been killing people has not stopped, it is still continuing, and this gives an insight of what the audience should expect in this film.
From looking at the poster, the target audience of the film is fifteen and above. This is because the film contains a lot of blood scenes, because on the poster a lot of blood is shown. The Grudge seems like a scary film, which may startle and scare anyone under this age.
The film 'Paranormal Activity 3' is a horror/thriller film and it is part of two other films which are 'Paranormal Activity' and 'Paranormal Activity 2'.
The poster of 'Paranormal Activity 3' is simple and there is not a lot going on. This is because the poster contains the films name, the website of the film, the release date, the slogan 'discover how the activity began'. The poster only contains one picture which is of a child's room and two children are sleeping, in the background there is a shadow of the ghost that has been haunting the family since the first film. This picture gives an insight of what part three of the film is going to be about. On the picture there is also the time and date of when the picture was taken, this shows the ghost only haunts them in the night, therefore the film takes place in the night.
As it is a horror/thriller poster there is not much color, and there are no bright colors in the poster as well. The main colors in the poster are black, white and red. The black could symbolise the night, this is because everything that happens to the family happens in the night because the ghost haunts the family in the night. The red could symbolise the blood and danger that is going to happen to the family. The white could symbolise the ghost that is haunting the family. All the colors that are used on the poster show and mean something, there is a deeper meaning behind them.
The target audience of the film Paranormal activity is also fifteen and above. This is because it contains scenes that are scary and may scare anyone under this age.
Total Film is a well known film magazine. Looking at the magazine, the colours are very warm, as the colours that are in the magazine are, white, red, grey and black. All of these colours make the magazine look natural and warm, because they drag in the audience to see what film they are promoting today and also what they are going to talk about. The colour of the Masthead is White and because the font is big and bold this makes the masthead stand out and instantly the reader knows that this is a film magazine. Above the masthead there is some writing in red to show where films have gone up the chart and this is what reader's would want to see that's why it is in bold red and a big font and also above the mast head.
The straplines are in white and they are quite small but, they still catch your eye because of the different type of writing that has been used and the celebrity name's are in bold white, whereas the description about them and the film they are in is in a normal white colour. At the bottom of the magazine, the main film that the magazine is focusing on is Star Trek and this is in bold white and also in a big font, with the word world exclusive just above in red. This ultimately stands out and makes the reader/audience aware of what they are going to talk about and who the image of the man is.
The image of the man, is very simple and natural as it is black and white. There is direct contact with the eyes just staring at your drawing you in to read the magazine. Also, the way that the man is pouting is very sexual and dynamic and will mainly draw in girls and young women. Also, his eyebrows are very in and look tight and slightly scary as if he mans business and they certainly draw the reader in buying the magazine and having a look inside.
Looking at the magazine, I can see that the target audience will be people that are in their middle 20's to their 50's, because the magazine presents and shows nothing to a young audience and also as the film Star Trek is quite old, it really doesn't associate with young people and that is the same for the magazine.
Gorezone is known to be the world's most upmarket horror entertainment magazine. Looking at the magazine, I can see that the colours that have been used are red, blue, black and white. The masthead of the magazine is really bold and stands out, from the bold writing, big font, dark red colour on the font and the black colour shadow. Also, the name of the masthead Gorezone, stands out by itself, because the name shows that the magazine will have a lot of really scary pictures, glory writing and photographs etc.
The model on the front cover of the magazine, has be made up to look like a really scary and horrofic character. This is due to the blood smudges that re on her face and also on her clothes, which show that something has happened to her, like she has been attacked by a ghost. Also, the model has bold brown eyes, that just stare at you and give the audience a really scary look!
Looking at the strap lines, i can see that the actors of the films names, are in a bold red colour and the font is quite big, but the actor name of the woman in the magazine, font size is much more bigger than the others, to promote who she is and what film that she is in. Also, underneath the writing of the actor's names, there is a medium light blue colour of the description of the movie, this stands out because the medium light colour is different and, because the rest of the magazine colours are red, black and white, this medium light blue doesn't really fit in and sticks out like a sore thumb.
Overall the magazine itself, looks like a horror magazine, due to its pictures, writing, font, colours, size etc.
Looking at the magazine I can see that the target audience will be mainly teenage to late 20's/early 30's. This is because the magazine, font, colours and the image itself draws attention to these types of people and associates them, especially as this magazine is promoting a horror film as mainly young people are interested in this type of movie.
