AS Media Coursework - Film

It has taken me a while to make this first post on my blog showing my progress with the planning of my Media Project. So I shall just some up what I have been doing towards this project over the past few weeks.

I have decided on doing an Action/Horror film opening. The opening shall be another chase scene but not like the seen from the prelim (The Pizza). This scene will involve two chracters and I have already got two of my friends to play these parts. The two chracters will be a victim (possibly with a name) and the Grim Reaper.

My two favourite film genres are action and horror which is why I have chosen to go in this direction. But one of my more general influences is the sort of music that I listen to, taking for instance one of my favourite artists, Children of Bodom, a lot of their songs are based on the lake bodom murders that occured in the 1960s. If you are unfamiliar with these murders then follow this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Bodom_murders . I do not want to recreate these murders. But the event itself has helped me choose characters for this film opening.

I have also looked at many diffrent action and horror films.
Action
The Chronicals of Riddick
V for Vendetta
Avatar
The Dark Knight
Bourne Trilogy
Hell Boy 1 & 2

Horror
Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurection, Alien vs Predator.
The Ring 1 & 2 in both Japanese and English
Jason X
Silence of the Lambs (Thriller / Horror)
The Grudge
The Blair Witch Project

THE RING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQm3BV6s0r8
This is one of my favourite scenes in the ring, it features some excellent special effects that have stuck in my mind for years, when I first watched this film at the age of 13 I had trouble sleeping for nights on end. I may use some of the techniques is this scene for my final project such as, Sadako moving slowly compared to Ryuji Takayama, who is moving quickly and in his panic stumbles over various objects.

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeShmrlFT5M
This is the final scene from the blair witch project, it was such an original way to shoot a horror movie using nothing but hand held 'amatuer' camera shots. The wat they build tension is really clever; Instead of using music they use the screams of the girls voice as they enter the house, after a few minutes in the house the screams become more and more extreme, and the breathing of 'Mike' becomes a lot heavier. As they venture further into the house it begins to look more and more creepy with the strange symbols on the walls, and handprints everywhere. When the girl heads down into the basement this is really the climax of this tension as we see Mike standing in the corner of the room for a few seconds.