Babysitter Wanted (2008 - Jonas Barnes & Michael Manassen) - Deconstruction

• Music at start builds tension.
• POV-ECU at bare flesh - has marker pen lines on it as if in plastic surgery.
• Camera wobbling and flesh is moving.
• 'Baby like' music is played to give a sick sense of horror and tension.
• Door seen opening at foot level which a 'freaky' squeak into a room with a blue tint to show coldness and scariness.
• Shot goes back to the ECU of flesh then pans to the right and up to a female face to confirm it's a body.
• They're gagged and a muffled scream is heard from them then  footsteps coming towards them in the background.
• Shot under his arm focused on a table with sharp and blunt. rusty and bloodied metal impliments on it.
• CU of victim showing them sweating maniacally and crying - their face is covered in dirt and blood.
• Still shot of an overhead hook.
• Medium shot, pans down her body to show the lines that have been drawn on her - lines that 'show where to cut'.
• Hammer is raised in background of the shot and placed in the centre of her forehead - signifies where he is aiming at.
• He raises the hammer and brings is down towards her forehead quickly, the shot 'turns away' as it hits her head - signifies that it's 'too gruesome to watch'.
• Music turns into one long drawn out note to increase tension.
• The note ends as the hammer hits her head and a crunching noise is heard to 'shock audience'. 

Chuckie - Deconstruction

• Font of opening credits signifies horror.
• Mask & chainsaw in 'evidence area' (at police station) increases fear.
• Darkness with lightning adds connotes horror.
• American flag - signifies that the creators are trying to say "this is what America is about".
• Mise-en-scene is a policeman stealing evidence from a locker.
• Close up of a doll he takes from the locker.
• Shot of the policeman from inside the bag to connote that the doll is 'watching him'.
• Foreshadowing of his demise - whilst he's driving a car he almost crashes head on into a dump truck.
• His phone is cut off in the middle of conversation - gives a sense of a life line being cut off.
• Sitting in a car in warehouse waiting for someone?
• High angle shot of him in his car in the middle of the warehouse - connotes that he is isolated and alone.
• Lights a cigarette with a lighter inscribed with the words 'to Bailey' - signifies an importance of the name Bailey.
• Keeps looking inside the bag which he stole from the police station.
• Looks into the bag again then is killed by a mysterious female attacker who slits his throat.
• As his throat is cut, there is excessive use of lightning.
• The attacker is a Femme Fatade - Signifies danger!

Audience

As previously blogged, my film idea came from watching Hostel and Friday the 13th remake. Due to the fact that my very original idea would be impossible to shoot without high-tec lighting equipment, I had to tweak it so that it could be filmed inside a house. Due to the fact that my film opening is the opening to a slasher, the target audience would be people in their late teens (18), to people in late 20s. This is the primary target audience for slasher films, and is therefore my target audience. Hostel (2005) - which I obviously relate to film - had a budget of $4,500,000 and made a box office of $19,556,099, and also made a gross profit of $47,277,326. This film is aimed at (and quote) "young adults" - this constitutes of people in the age band which I gave and therefore means that due to the fact that my film has influences from that film, if I sent my film for cinema screenings it would have a similar box office to that of hostel (assuming I had a similar budget).

Film Update

As planned, we went ahead with the filming on saturday the 22nd January. The filming went as well as planned, and the house we filmed in was better suited to our film than expected. At the moment, we are currently making a rough edit of the film, which has brought up a problem with the uploading. However, when we get past this problem with either re-uploading the films, or if forced to; re-filming (this would only be a last resort though).

Script - Myself & Richard McLachlan

Here is a copy of the script I wrote for the film. This is what we provided the actors we used with, but we allowed them to change words that they weren't happy with using, or thought would allow them to get character better with.

Script

Deconstruction Of Friday The 13th (Re-Make) - Richard McLachlan

Friday the 13th (remake) (Marcus Nisthul, 2009)

Budget: $19,000,000US Takings: $64,900,000UK Takings: £1,960,000

Titles red – signify blood 
White writing on black background – binary opposites 
Variation of shot types – PoV, Handheld, Shot-reaction-shot ect. 
Different angles used 
Main character – not wearing much clothing binary opposite to mother 
Pendant - silver? – Key part? 
Trees obstructing shots 
Credits cut through opening scene – starts and stops violence – makes audience more scared 
Both characters have weapons 
Head falling into puddle – iconicThunder and Lightning – jumps – controls heartbeat 
Older woman talks a lot more than the other character. Also talks when dead. 
Non-diagectic sound used – eerie music

Decostruction of Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Richard McLachlan

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Toby Hooper, 1974)                 3 min 21 sec

Budget: $83,000
US Takings: $31,000,000

August 18, 1973 – anchorage of date

Documentary style – Verisimilitude (Realism)
Audio bridge linking date to filmSounds of digging – diagetic?

Music – no diagetic underlining 
Bones being hit and seen in the flashes when photographs are being taken 

1 min 22 seconds until first shot – different approach to the genre.
   Horror – best in the mind of the audience- off screen

Flash photography

Narrative enigma (Barthes) mystery – intentional, unsettles audience

Radio playing over the top – exposition

Not met any main characters,

One shot used – different approach, lack of money, plays on audience’s minds.

Equilibrium – killer on the lose