IB film

I am going to view during the summer, The Exorcist to refresh my mind because I have seen it 3 years ago and the same with 28 weeks later,this will help me besides of refreshing my mind to identify any moment that I did not took notice when watching it the first time.
As my job for the movie I will choose to be cinematographer because its the task which I am more familiarize with and I enjoy the most.
For the member of my film I would like Lucas Brucco to edit it, for the script maybe Max Cooper.

Rationale for independent study

My documentary will be about how horror films reflect their society’s fears.

As my case studie I have chosen from the USA “The Exorcist” (1973) as it is a classic film and as a recent and more new film I have chosen the Japanese movie "Ringu" (1998).

Short Film Camera

CHARACTER: Jason Delgado, Banker
PROP: black tie
LINE OF DIALOGUE: It’ll never work

CAST
Jason Delgado: Lucas Ricardi
Tommy: Max Cooper
Wife: Giuliana Bruni


CAMERA SHOT LIST

Location SCENE FRAMING SHOTS Cam/Light Action. dialogue
Bank 1 Establishing shot Day people work
Bank 1 Long shot/Jason Track shot Day Jason talks
Bank 1 Close up/Tommy High angle Day Tommy talks
Bank 1 Close up/ clock E/L Day clock ticking
Bank 1 M/S Jason Track shot Day Jason talks
Bank 1 S-R-S Eye level Day Jason-Tommy
Bank 1 Track shot M/A Day Tommy leaves
Bar 2 side of shot M/A Low Tommy drinks
House 3 wide shot Day Car engine
Room 4 pan shot M/A Low Tommy enters
Room 4 S-R-S M/A Low Tom-Wife-Tom
Room 4 Med-shot Track shot Low Wife leaves
Room 4 Close Up Eye Level Low “…only way”
Room 5 Black - Dark -
Room 6 O/S Eye level Low does the tie
Room 6 POV Track shot Low grabs gun, leaves.

Short Film

Synopsis:

Begins in an office, bankers working. Jason is the boss, a strict one. He revises everyone’s work done at the end of the day. He finds that Tommy hasn’t done anything, so he starts to discuss with him. In the end, mocking him, he fires him. Tommy goes to a bar, starts drinking, and in the next scene he goes back to his flat (poor area) and tells his wife that he has been fired, and the wife starts crying, while showing Tommy that there has been a card sent to them saying that they owe money or their house will be mortgaged. They fight between them because the wife knows that they will not be able to pay; Tommy says it will all work; wife says: no, it’ll never work. Never. The wife leaves the flat. Tommy does his tie, in front of the mirror. Grabs the gun. Leaves.

Script:
Int: bank. Day.
Bankers working
Jason:
All righty, I want each of you to give me your work right now. Specially you, Tommy, you looser.
Tommy:
Yes sir. No worries.

Clock ticking. Jason revising what everyone has done. Reaches Tommy…

Jason:
You’re pathetic, man. (Spits on Tommys work). You can’t do this little task? Then no more working for you, pumpkin.
Tommy:
But boss, please. I really need this…
Jason: (interrupting)
Come on, get you’re stuff and get out. Shouting: Look at this looser leaving; everyone say bye, bye to him!

Int: Bar. Dark lighting.
Tommy sitting at a bar, waiting for his drink.
Tommy walking to his house
Int: Tommy’s house. Poor building and environment.
Tommy:
Hi honey…
Wife:
DID YOU SEE THIS?!? (Showing him a card from the government). We need to pay a fortune just to keep our flat!
Tommy:
Honey, I need to te…
Wife: (interrupting)
It’s too much money! We won’t live!
Tommy:
I said shut up and listen to me!!! I’ve been fired…OK?
Wife: (crying)
Jesus Tom…
Tommy:
Don’t worry, babe. I’ll make it w…
Wife: (interrupting)
No Tommy, no. It’ll never work. Never.

Wife leaves the flat. Making a loud noise while leaving.
Tommy goes to his bedroom, looks at himself in the mirror, slaps his face.

Tommy:
It’s the only way…

Light disappears (dissolves). Reappears again (as if it was the next day) and there is Tommy doing his tie up in the bathroom. He grabs the gun and leaves.

Genre Horror

Horror











Horror Films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, because dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films effectively center on the dark side of life, the forbidden, and strange and alarming events. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our revulsions, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death and dismemberment, loss of identity, or fear of sexuality. Horror films are also known as chillers, scary movies, spook fests, and the macabre.

Some famous directors of horror movies are George Romero, an American film director, screenwriter, editor and occasional actor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. The most famous movies he produced were Day of the dead, Dawn of the dead and Night of the living dead. Another famous director is Tobe Hooper, which produced the famous movie The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Poltergeist. Stanley Kubrick is a very famous director known for his classic horror movies, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. This director had work on many other genres rather than horror, like comedy, war, crime, and thriller. Finally Alfred Hitchcock, which directed The Birds and Psycho. This man is a more of a thriller director than a horror one. He knew how to create suspense and shocks in his black and white style movies better than most.

By the other hand, some of the best horror genre actors according to the movie critics are Sigourney Weaver famous by acting on Alien in 1979 and also Aliens and Alien resurrection on 1986 and 1997. Jamie Lee Curtis is another important actress for her movies, Halloween (1978),The Fog(1980) and Prom Night (1980). Peter Cushing is also known for acting on Dracula (1958) and The Curse of Frankenstein (1957).

Basically, some of the techniques that horror films use to frighten the audience are using zoom in on a characters face and put the evil some distance behind them out of focus at first and have them menacingly prowl up on their victim . Have the evil crawl across the ceiling right above the victim use camera angle so the audience sees the monster but they do not. And also shooting as if looking through the evil character eyes. This is basically made to frighten the audience and to show the perspective of the evil character.

For my case study I have chosen The Texas Chain Saw Masacre because it is a perfect example of movie which shows all the main features of a horror film. It doesn’t show many grouse shots and it transmits the audience a lot of fear. Another feature about this movie is that the spectator gets nervous when the victim is running away to escape from the psycho and wants to talk to the victim telling him like for example get down or don’t do that and this makes the audience to be more concentrate towards the movie. Lastly, the feature that frightens more the audience in the horror moment, is the soundtrack as it varies along the movie roles, specially when the victim is going to be attacked, normally the soundtrack heard starts before the action of persecution between the psycho and the victim and starts very low and when the psycho appears and the victim runs the soundtrack is heard much lauder and with a faster rhythm.

Screenwriter

The screenwriter is the person in charge of writing the script for the film. They are important because if not the movies would not have a good srcipt between characters, the dialogues were boaring without them. Richard Walter is a good example as he is one of the best screenwriter of the world.

Interview

Lucas Brucco interview by Alexis Kovacic:

Actor/actress you
admired/worshipped?
Jack Nicholson, as he can play the role of whatever he wants, for example in The Shinning he plays the role of a crazy man who wants to kill his family this movie has a genre of Horror. But then he can also play the role of a funny man like in Anger Management which has a genre of comedy.
Director you became aware of?
Steven Spielberg. I became aware of him because I’ve enjoyed most of his films, for example Munich (2006), Indiana Jones (2008), and I will definitely watch Transformers 2 because he is going to be the director.
Film you cried in?
Armageddon
Film you saw in the cinema?
Fast and Furious (2009)
Film you switched off or walked out of?
Earth (2009)
Childhood films?
Toy Story
Recent films?
Fast and Furious (2009)
All time films?
Rocky Balboa
Actors and actress?
Adam Sandler, Jessica Alba
Michael Bay or Steven Spielberg? Steven Spielberg

De Niro or Pacino? De Niro

Subtitles or dubbed? Subtitles

Hollywood or Bollywood? Hollywood
Bourne of Bond? Bourne

Batman or Slumdog Millionaire? Slumdog Millionaire

Alexis

We are going to film on Friday 22, we are going to use a digital camera a computer Apple macbook pro 2006. Lucas Brucco is going to be in charge of editing.

Sir our group members are Alexis, Iñaki and Lucas.

1) We chose the topic ¨Sports addiction¨ because we think its an unknown social issue.

2) This helps to generate consiousness in the audience about their body limitations.

3) The equipment will use for our proyect: Camera(to be confirmed), Microphone(to be confirmed), Mac (IMovie and IDvd).

4) Primary and secondary sources: Doctor(to be confirmed) and ex bodybuilder(Jorge).

5) Lucas: Editing, filming and reaserching.Iñaki: Organising, filming and reaserching.Alexis: Presenter, filming and reaserching.

6) ¨Bigger, Faster, Stronger¨. (A documentary about bodeybuilding and the use of steroids by Chris Bell)(Plot: In America, we define ourselves in the superlative: we are the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world. Is it any wonder that so many of our heroes are on performance enhancing drugs? Director Christopher Bell explores America's win-at-all-cost culture by examining how his two brothers became members of the steroid-subculture in an effort to realize their American dream.)

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