Friday, 27 November 2009

Succubus





• Main character(Killer): Sara Millfield
• Key Victims: -Marc,15 years old, the geek.
-Dave,16 years old, rugby boy
-Tim,16 years old, is helped by Lisa



She is very attractive, she disguises herself as a young high-school girl who is in reality 105 years old. She wants to keep young because she doesn’t feel that she has lived her life enough. She sucks the soul out of young boys. Her real name is Patricia Godfield. Lisa and Tim realise the disappearance of male friends and are attempted to study the killers mysterious past. Set mostly in school’s in America and in the victims house.
The initial idea of the whole story was representing an over-turn in stereotypical male killers where we finally see a man as the victim and the woman as the killer. The jock jacket at the beginning signifies that he is the typical, popular jock, therefore, showing that the place and setting of the whole film is in a high school, signifying that the target audience is adolescents.
The story behind her killing him in the opening sequence, is her mistreated high school years by boys like the boy in the shower.
After the opening sequence, the main idea is to continue the film by presenting lives of teen-agers in high school and continuing with many cases of similar murders that we saw in the opening sequence.
We cut to the school corridor where we see Mark the geek being bullied by Dave the hunk who locks him in a school locker and walks away. The girl rescues the geek and seduces him by kissing him and asking him on a date, he accepts and runs away with embarrassment. The cool guy sees this and tries to chat her up due to jealousy but she plays hard to get and walks away.
We next see Mark and the girl in a cinema and she seduces him by touching him on the knee and drags him into the bathroom knowing that he is too shy and weak to say no. She kills him by stabbing him violently while smoke which is supposed to be his soul exhales out of his mouth .We see the girl next day at school with Dave the hunk who is trying to get her to go out with him but his girlfriend Lisa interrupts and fights with the girl, therefore she leaves. We next see Dave call the girl and ask her out, we cut to her on the phone looking at herself in the mirror and she notices wrinkles on her hand and some grey hair (shows her problem), she piles on some make-up and accepts to go out with him requesting to meet at a club. We then cut to the club where there is a lot of chaos and drugged up people with hard-core techno playing. Dave walks through the crowd and sees her face through the crowd. She indicates to go upstairs. We cut to them walking into a dark, stingy room with a dim light. A close-up of them kissing and then we only see the dim light and we hear her stabbing him violently while he screams and then she leaves the room.
Next day she is in the corridor flirting with Tim, a new character who is the friend of Lisa, this is where Lisa starts to suspect this girl. The next day, Lisa walks up to the girl insulting her and asks her lots of questions about herself, she sees the wrinkles on her hand and the girl notices this and runs away. We cut to Lisa researching on the internet for this girl’s past but can’t find anything matching her fake name. She finds a book in the library which talks about this kind of power. The book says that she can only be destroyed by being called by her real name. She realises that she has to do research in the girl’s house to find her real name. She tells Tim the situation and asks him to help her, so he asks the girl on a date and takes her to his house. Lisa breaks into the girl’s house and finds all sorts of papers…. We see Lisa finally finding the real name and runs to Tim’s house. When she arrives, she is beaten up by the girl and Tim manages to get out of the bed and gets the papers and screams out her name. We see the girl shrivel up on the floor and loose all souls of her victims through exhaling the smoke.

Succubus

The final idea for the horror film

My idea for a horror film was based on a girl who is actually and old woman who disguises herself as a young 18 year old, and in order to keep young, she takes the virginity from innocent boys who then after their relations, become mummified and some sort of strange creature. This idea was made to oppose everything stereotypical in everyday horror films: gender, religion and science. In my idea, I contrast the idea of having to be a man to kill, by placing a young weak looking girl to replace this. In horror films, there is a belief that if you are a virgin you are "good", while in my idea, I brought about a change making the virgins the immediate victims.

The final idea for the horror film

My idea for a good horror film was based on a girl

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Thursday, 19 November 2009

What is a horror film?

The main ideas of a horror film are: delivers high levels of gore, the fear of a monster or a stranger, or the body being ripped to pieces. These apply to the audiences fears and allow them to see these terrors from a safe distance.
The ideology of this, is to show the subtle messages within which include punishment, rejection and revulsion. These all fall into where 'correct' thinking is supposed to take place. For example: in a simple horror film, the promiscuous, drug-taking and drinking characters, are always killed off before hand, while the religious, good virgins, always survive till the end. This demonstrates how the plot is trying to send out a message to say that 'sex is bad, being a virgin is good.'

Horror films also alter our fears of strangers or hitchhikers who always appear to be 'murderers' or 'rapists'. In a horror film, the stranger is always the villain, making them a stereotype and reenforcing our knowledge of what we have grown-up with about not talking to strangers. It is the same when we talk about religion. The expectations of the world are to follow the traditional christian religion, and by doing this you are 'good'. This is demonstrated in horror films by destroying any deviant religion which is also considered the 'bad side' of the storyline.

With the new technologies nowadays, the audience immediately expects every problem to be fixed via science. This is why older beliefs such as: religion or superstition, have been replaced with the modern belief of the power of science. This is why when in a film the supernatural is defeated with psychological power rather than a Latin spell.
The modern version of horror industry draws in huge audiences due to it's continual re-invention and re-creating of every successful horror film.

This slideshow shows my presentation to an idea of a horror film which then became our main idea to do the group work to make an opening sequence of a horror film. This powerpoint explains the idea of this girl who is in actual fact an old woman who diguises herself as a young girl. Her crime is that she has relations with random boys who have to be virgins, giving her the power to keep young, however, the victims die and dry up becoming a nasty creature in order to her sucking out of virginity.