Thursday 8 January 2015

Moodboard


1- We have chosen to include the infamous killer Ed Gein within our mood board because we have decided to base our killer 'Father Crowthorne' on his innocent nature to the point where people contextually didn't suspect him. We feel that this change will have the ability to shock audiences more as opposed to having an outright killer.

2- Jekyll and Hyde is another ode to the idea of two sides to people in one persons body, this way we can really emphasise the idea of a monster character residing under the innocent and calming layer of a religious figure. Dr. Jekyll in the novel was a respected gentleman throughout the town, and people came to him for advice and services,  but little did they know he turned into a murderer after the transformation.


3-For the third image on our mood board, we chose to include a historical figure of Father Hans Schmidt of Germany. In 1913, Schmidt was having a sexual relationship with a housemaid, who he got pregnant. After finding out about this, Schmidt slit her throat and cut her up, disposing of her body in the East River. We chose to include him because we felt we could base our killer around Hans and his murderous intentions.


4- Norman Bates, is the sweeter side to a schizophrenic personality from Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO (1960) We have included Bates because much like the Hans Schmidt choice, we can base the sweeter side of our killer 'Father Crowthorne' around that. Hitchcock's choice of this innocent character made the 'big reveal' all the more satisfying for audiences, we hope to recreate that effect within our own horror trailer.


5- The graveyard is within our mood board for a couple of reasons, the first being that it is a typical location within the horror genre. At night it can be used as a very spooky and creepy location in which the main action of a horror movie can happen. As a group, we wanted to include a scene within a graveyard for an ironic reason as well as a sickening one for our audiences, the irony being people dying in a place where the dead are already buried. 


6- Our horror trailer is going to have a really Gothic feel to it, in the sense that we have a priest murdering "sinners"and this is why we have included one of the most influential horror writers to date. Edgar Allen Poe made it onto the mood board because his work is creepy and a good example for horror fans. We wanted to pay ode to Edgar Allen Poe by looking at his texts and possibly using some of his work to influence our creative process.


7- NUN (2005) is a movie about a ghost nun who has come back to haunt former students, we felt we should include this on our mood board because it's similar to what we want to do with the idea of a religious figure murdering for the sake of it, but rather than have an apparition doing the haunting, we want an actual serial killer.


8- For one of the highlights within our trailer, we wanted to have "holy water" burning away at a victim's face. If we are to do this then we need to recreate the effect with latex and the building up of layers using tissue paper. We needed to research into different horror makeup effects with latex for burns and the one of the mood board is the one we wish to try and recreate, it looks severe and very bloody. As a group we wanted to have gore in the trailer, and this is how we wish to do it.


9- This is a piece of religious art depicting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ whilst pictured inside a larger picture of Jesus Christ's head. Our group felt inspired by this art work because it helps to capture the mood of the church we'll be using to shoot our trailer within. We felt we needed to look into and include religious art and texts in order to capture the overall feel of the location.


10- This is a picture of the actual church we will be filming our trailer at, we felt we should include it on our mood board because it will be the main setting for the trailer, also a church is a typical horror location, and helps to tie in with the graveyard location well. This way we shall have a continuous ambiance throughout the trailer.


11-The picture of the mist is included in the mood board because firstly, mist is a natural horror convention, and is used to deceive and disorientate audiences. we included this because mist is also because it has an element of the unknown, and that's what we wish to capture within our trailer. We want to shock audiences with stuff they don't see coming.


12- This line from William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' is interesting because it pays tribute to biblical terms, it mentions hell and how that devils ram the earth. this comment about people being evil is interesting as it's how we wish to base our killer character, we want him to be part demon underneath the skin of an innocent priest.


13- This is an image that is relevant to the context of the time, we now have female priests being included within the church system. We wanted to include the female priest because we are using a 'final girl' whom is a priest and it's through her purity that she tries to eradicate the father.


14- The director Tom Six has been included on our mood board because we want to push boundaries within our trailer much like the movies of Tom Six. One of our shots is a male victim being penetrated through the skull with a crucifix which is a controversial idea in itself. Our trailer wants to include some of the raw cinema elements within it that makes it difficult to watch in order to help convey the idea of horror in a big way to our audiences.

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