Story and Script

Story – Media

Plot

A boy is walking in a forest with a rucksack on his back. As he is walking, a hooded figure spots him. The boy starts to worry about his surroundings and starts to worry. As he is walking, the boy finds a tent. He is confused and wondering why it is there. He spots a bag on the floor and decides to look inside. He only finds a black coat. He hears a noise from behind and starts to run away. He is scared. He then decides to call for help from his friend James. He tells him that he is in Oakland Forest and that he thinks he is getting followed. Suddenly, the hooded figure comes from behind him and starts strangling the boy who falls to the ground. The boy doesn't know what to do as the hooded figure finds a stick. He starts beating him with him as the boy screams. The hooded figure then breathes heavily and walks away. It then goes to the boy hand as he lays in the forest dead.   

This is my script for my video. The script includes the dialogue that is used by the actors in the video and the main overview of what is happening the scene. 

Most popular Horror genres?

From researching into Horror films, I asked what sub-genre people preferred from four categories, Psychological (e.g. Psycho), Slasher (e.g. A Nightmare On Elm Street, Halloween), Supernatural (e.g. The Conjuring, The Exorcist) and Science fiction (Alien, The Thing). From asking people, I found out that Psychological was the most popular sub-genre with 34%. Slasher got 26%, Science fiction has 25% and Supernatural got 15%. This is because Psychological is more interesting and each Psychological is different to each other. On the other hand, you could suggest that Slasher horror all have the same storyline, with a teenage girl dying in nearly all Slasher films. Also, the killer usually doesn't die which means that they is usually a lot of sequels of Slashers.

Opening to a Horror film

                                                                Horror – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Certificate: 18
Director: Wes Craven

The opening scene is off a girl in abandoned warehouse. The music sets the tone which makes you feel tense. A Horror movie cliché is that you get scared while not seeing the killer at all. You see the main enemy (Freddy Krueger) only a couple of times. The only time you see him fully is at the end of the scene, where you are most likely to jump. The text is quite weird to show that the film is quite strange. The text is off the actors in the film and afterwards goes to the people with the smaller roles (casting and production designer). It goes to the bigger people in the film like the editor and the executive producer. You have to wait until the end to see who the director and in this case writer is, who is Wes Craven. If you were familiar to Craven’s work you would know that he had done Last House on the Left (1972) and The Hills Have Eyes (1977), two of the most iconic horror movies of the 1970’s. Craven had created an iconic horror film character in Freddy Krueger as iconic as Jason in the Friday the 13th (1980-2001), with the two characters having a whole franchise, a new remake and also a film with them both in together, Freddy vs. Jason (2003). 

Storyboard

This is my storyboard for my video prelim. There are twelve different scenes on my storyboard, to show someone walking through a door.

Script

This is my first attempt at writing a script. This script will be for my Prelim video.