ASSIGNMENT 26:

INDIVIDUAL PITC

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HORROR SUB-GENRE CHOSEN: PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR- MADNESS

5 PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR FILMS:1.Silence of the Lambs

2.Se7en 3.The Uninvited

4.The sixth sense

I See Dead People!

5.The Blair Witch Project

CONVENTIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MADNESS HORRORSConventions of Psychological Horror films include:• Reflects on a characters fears or beliefs (Se7en, a character

is religious and so the seven deadly sins are involved)• Fear is the common source of danger (The Sixth Sense, the

young boy is scared of the ghosts and so danger is real)• Eerie music and sounds that increase in a build up of

tension (Every Psychological horror other than films similar to the Blair Witch Project)

• Often revolves around a mental illness such as dementia or amnesia (Shutter island)

• The idea that horror and evil comes from within (The Shining)

WHAT WILL HAPPEN?• Non-Linear order of OTS• Close ups of characters, who then are revealed to be monsters or demons (What the

main character actually sees• Full 360 rotation, around the dementia patients head, highlighting the illness and

focus around this character• Play on the speed of odd, unrealistic motions made by the surrounding characters• Tracking shot of a knife being brushed along a surface, highlighting why the main

character is in the asylum• Reaction shot of a new character (wife) with half a distorted face (makeup) and half

normal face• Close up of a lock turning• Then to an enclosed room with the main character jerking about frantically, jump cuts,

to show distortion• POV shot of the wife walking towards the dementia patient with her hand reaching out• A close up shot of the dementia patient looking up at the wife, with eyes and face

bleeding from self harm (essentially trying to blind himself from seeing his fears)

MEETING CONVENTIONS?I am meeting conventions with the following:• A constant eerie music and frequent uncomfortable and

unnatural noises made by surrounding performers• The characters fears are clear to be a mixture of what he

sees and hurting the ones he loves or both as dementia can cause visual perception

• The idea that he is ill and it is all in his head• His fear is the source of danger but more to others than

himselfMy Idea will be unique as I’ve not seen an idea where you will visually see what the dementia patient is seeing and the confusion that the character feels also applies to you.

CREATIVE ENIGMASThe creative enigmas that my OTS would contain are:• The outcome of the ill man’s family, although we see a knife

shown with the wife in shot, we are unsure if the patient did kill her or if she is still alive

• The Causes and outcome of the character to have injured himself around his own face

• The Location, the audience need to figure out that the patient is in a mental hospital but is reminiscing of his outburst with his wide

MAIN TARGETS• Costume and Make up are key focuses for this OTS, there

would need to be extensive research done into that profession (I'm just going to ask my mum). It needs to be realistic

• Editing, will be incredibly important to this OTS as videos will need to be edited, the speed, the appearance and the order of the videos will all need to be a main focus when editing the piece

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