In my group for my horror film I am with Adam, Victor and Charlotte. Each person contibutes well to our group and we all have our jobs to do, Adam is the sound enginere, charlotte is the producer, i am the cinematographer and Victor is the Director. We have chosen to use Victor’s idea as it was very easy yet effective and can be scary as it leaves the ending up to the audience’s imagination.My horror is a film called Delusion, about a young girl who gets put in a mental home after seeing a dead body in the lake near her house. While she is in the metal home she befriends a girl much like her, her new friend begins to manipulate her and make her do things she does not want to do. Later she convinces her to escape from the mental home and she goes back home and strangles her father because he put her in the mental home and he would not belive her about the dead body near the house. But then she is found dead in the lake the next day, but I leave it up to the audience to decide what happened to her, if she became schizophrenic and was “murdered” by her other half or if she was drowned by the girl she befriended. To fund my film i would use Artisan Entertainment as i have seen many small budget films that have acheved great success through this company, they have produced fims such as Dirty Dancing which acheved huge success in the late 80S and Napoleon Dynamite which cost less than $400,000 to make but its gross revenue was almost $50 million. Napoleon Dynamite also has the same target audience as me as my film would appeal to an audience of about 15 to 25 years old because they are both young and entertaining as the target audience may be able to relate some of the things that happen in the film. Artisan Entertainment was a private independent American movie studio until it was brought by a Canadian studio, Lionsgate, in 2003. We decided not to use my idea as it would be more expensive and complicated to film and difficult to create an opening sequence that would make sense without telling the whole story.
But for Victors idea, his opening sequence was to start with a big establishing shot of a forest and then the camera would drop down into the woods and we would be able to see the names of the cast, producer and director carved into the trees and then it would begin with the camera man running with the camera filming a boy about the age of 18, this would give the impression that he is being chased, he then begins to slow down and is bleeding from his stomach, he eventually falls to his knees and then on his back, he is filmed from a high angle as this will make him appear inferior he looks up and sees a shadow standing over him holding a knife, the audience is unable to see who it is, then we see a P.OV from the young boy and we see that the figure is infact himeself. this can leave it up to the audiences imagination, if it was the young boys imagination and he had created a person in his mind.He then dies and the film cuts. Then there will be a slash through the black and we will see the title of the film through it and it will be back lit through smoke. We are going to film it in a forest near the school, which is very easy and inexpensive. The forest will also create a spooky and mysterious atmosphere if we film and light it in the right way. All the angles that we will be filming from will manipulate the picture and will always make the boy look inferior and helpless. It will also create an atmosphere of panic and chaos which will hopefully make the audience feel panic and unease and hopefully our thriller will have a good effect on it's audiences. I would also use Artisan Emtertainment as in 1999's they made The Blair Witch Project. It had a budget of $22,000 but grossed over $248 million worldwide. It had the highest ratio of box office sales to production cost in American film making history. It is also in a way very similar to victors idea so i think that they would promote it in the right away as they did lots of advertising on the internet and the internet is most used by this films target audiencs, 15 to 25,and it would become successfull with a big profit to be made out of a small budget!
Another film company I would use would be Fox searchlight, they are a company that originated from Fox but they take on the more riskier films that do not necessarily have such a big chance of success. Some of the films that they have made that have achieved huge success are Slumdog Millionaire, with a budget of $10 million and grossing over $360 million worldwide. Juno had a budget of $6.5 million and it gained $230 million worldwide it also won an Oscar for best origional screenplay. Garden State had a budget of $2,500,00 and it got a gross revenue of $35,825,316 it also earned a Grammy for its outstanding soundtrack. Thirteen which became a very popular film’s budget was $2 million and it got a gross revenue of $10.1 million. This shows us that Fox Searchlight would be perfect to use as our film that is for a niche audience.Audiences would be able to relate to the film much like they have to the others. We also belive that as Fox Searchlight it a well respected company due to these other films, it would gain the right publicity and as it has Fox as a backing it may be able to invest more into the film if nessicary.
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