The questionnaire

GHOSTS ‘N’ STUFF

Questionnaire!

1. Are you of an age between, 15 to 25?

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2. How many times do you attend the cinema? (circle one)

Once a month Once a week Daily Other

3. What type of genre of a film do you like to watch? (circle the one’s that appeal most)

Horror Comedy Thriller Action Adventure Romance

Sci-fi Historical Chick flick

4. Do you attend the cinema? (circle one)

In a group On your own With family Other

5. The film my group has chosen to make is a horror/comedy would this appeal to you?

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6. What makes films you go to watch appeal to you?

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7. What would you expect to see in a horror/comedy film?

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8. Before watching my group’s film have you ever watched a horror/comedy film before hand? What film/films were they?

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Props

Camera with flash for scene 2 where Tom begins to take pictures when the lights go out.

A bible for scene 3 when the priest enters, he is clutching a bible.

As is scene 4 is set in the bedroom the bed is considered as a prop as both Tom and Jade are going to be using the bed. Tom wants to catch the to catch the ghost n video so a video camera is going to be used as a prop also.
Scene four continues a baseball bat, a knife and a blow up hammer are lying on the floor.

The bed is also used as a prop in scene 5 when Tom jumps out of bed and runs downstairs towards Jade screaming.

In scene 7, the video camera is used as it is capturing the ghost walking towards it and bashes herself into it.

Costumes

http://shedidsaidworewhat.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/106348-14-the-ring.jpg


http://oraclespeak.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/ghosts.jpg


some ideas for ghost like costumes

Actors costumes

The actors involoved would be wearing 'normal' clothes: regular, casual clothes as it is set in everyday life. The 'ghost' however would be wearing either a white or black cloth covering them, their face to be covered by either hair or hood located on the back of the 'cape'/dress. The overall effect would be considered creepy but with an element of humor.

This is the title design for our movie.

Camera Flash Scene

We are aiming to use the same style of using a camera in a dark room and taking pictures to light up the whole room, for one of our scary but funny scenes in our film. Here are links to how we can do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tVgKsRLsg

Another link to the saw movie scene were the main character uses his camera to light the room up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Uzk60YEnM&feature=related

Film Research

Film Research For AS media film

Ghosts “n” Stuff

My group’s film is based on Paranormal Activity but we have chosen to make the film into our very own spoof. The idea has been taken from the last 4 Scary Movie films, we are aiming to make our film like the film comedy of the Scary movies. My group is going to try and create some of the same scenes from Paranormal Activity and then make these scenes hysterical the same way as David Zucker film director of Scary movie does by using actual films and then used them to his advantage to create the spoof versions of them all.

The film will be set as a Comedy/ Thriller just like Scary Movie

This film will have an audience rating of 15+

I have researched possible companies that distribute their own comedy spoofs that would support a film, such as my own groups Paranormal Activity based spoof called Ghosts ‘N’ Stuff. These distributers are: Dimension Films, Miramax Films, Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution, New Regency Pictures.

The chosen audience for the film we are aiming to produce is not really aimed at any specific audience apart from people over 15 years old. The film will be for male and female audiences.

Characters: 4 Main characters.

Husband and Wife

Exorcist

Ghost (Grudge)

Costume Designs:

Exorcist: Will be in either normal everyday clothes with a Bible or if able to obtain a priests costume.

Husband and wife: Will wear regular casual clothes, depending on scenes were the characters are in bed we would need bed dress sense.

Ghost (Grudge): This character will look the pretty much same as the grudge girl out of the film or even the Ring. Long hair over face and a mucky white Dress.

Film Plot

Spoof supernatural haunting. Women is haunted by a ghost from her past, with hysterical consequences. The couple try to sell the house but the ghost will not allow it.

link for paranormal activity

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179904/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal_activity

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/25/paranormal-activity-review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXeaZMl22fQ = Ending scene of paranormal actvity.

My own idea for the ending will be the women walking towards the camera, as she gets closer to the lens her face hits the camera and she falls over. The clip will finish after this scene.

The costume design for the ghost.

Idea

Last scene of the clip, costume of ghost based on the grudge, girl walks up to the camera in the grudge style blood down front of her clothes then walks into the frame and falls over. More funny shots to make the film more appealing!

Horror spoof
Start up black screen fades, revealing a dark house, slowly getting louder back ground music: spooky music...with a twist.
Horror scenes funny e.g photos being taken, first picture scary ghost all white, looking straight at camera, next photo with ghost thumbs up or posing/pout.
Character being stabbed, shot of knife being raised, then shot of masculine male screaming like a girl and and flying arms around.
Dragged out of bed, misses axe, gun, knife, grabs umbrella or equally idiotic/unusual object e.g.

Film Ideas

Horror/Spoof/Comedy (Paranormal Activity)

Characters: 2 maybe 3/4

Film based on being inside a house, supernatural activity is involved in the house being some sort of ghost the disturbs the house hold. Settings would be inside a house, with the starting scene being a women on the phone to an exorcist saying something is happening. Then the movie jump cuts to a different scene, where her husband is in the house at night, holding a camera taking pictures of the room to sell it off to estate agents, however, as he is taking the picture he captures a ghost every time the picture is taken again the ghost makes different kind of stances to make the scene funny. Pounting, thumbs up, smiling (e.g funny catwalk shoot with the ghost)

A following scene could contain the female character being dragged through the main bedroom through the door on the way through there would be different objects for her to grab as she misses to grab the ordinary items like umberellas and axes, she falls on a blow up hammer or sword something funny and not meant to be their.