Audiences

I personally have never watch a short film until we had the task of making our own short films.
i have learn how the audience of a short film would be other filmakers, isomniacs, short films would be used for fillers and propeller tv. perhaps in slots from channel4news and before you watch a movie in the cinema.

LOOKING AT YOUR AUDIENCE..
while making my short film i have to really think about the audience a way of directing your movie to a specific audience would be through the demographics/physical characteristics and psychographics which are desgined for the needs and desires.

GERNRE; romcom, horror,sci fi,action,comedy, drama...
AGE
GENDER
RELIGION
ETHNICITY
SOCIAL CLASS

My short film is directed to the audience from 16-20, both male and female.

Scenes for our Short Horror Film

1. INT. EMMAS HOUSE- NIGHT

Establish how parents are angry at their daughter -confiscate phone and grounded for this weekend. Parents leaving smartly dressed to the opera.

2. INT. EMMAS HOUSE- NIGHT

First suspicious shot from outside watching into the house as car drives off. 'Handheld shot someone watching into the house'.

3a. INT. EMMAS HOUSE- NIGHT

Girl calls friend to tell her to come over. Suspicious hand held shots watching in on her as she walks around the house. Goes to make popcorn. Gets ready for friend to arrive. Walks away (phone rings again) its her friend. (Phone rings again) it’s her friend, Emma starts to get aggravated that her friend keeps calling and hasn’t left yet. Phone rings again this time an unknown caller. Who wants to speak to a ‘Mr or Mrs’ but sounds more interested to know if Emma is home alone.

3b. INT. EMMA HOUSE- NIGHT 

Doors bell rings no ones there, standing looking out    phone call goes again shuts the door to answer the next call. Unknown caller again- gets a bit suspicious -he makes inappropriate remarks (slumber party). Walks around the house to make sure all the doors are locked. Phone rings again. Gets flirty but leads into a creep conversation (the unknown caller knowing what she is doing) as conversation goes on he tells her how they are playing a game. Gets more aggressive to a peak where she puts the phone down. Runs down the corridor to make a phone call and the unknown caller is still on the phone. Doorbell now rings (contemplates whether to open it or not)

4a.INT. EMMA HOUSE-NIGHT

'are you seriously not going to let her in' .the teenage girl is very scared now- looks through the window, notices two bodies dressed in black.

4b. INT. EMMA HOUSE- NIGHT

moves into the kitchen to find a sharp object for comfort. More noises come from outside and Emma gets worked up creeps to the door, in a quick movement opens the door and stabs Sophie in the chest not realizing its her friend.

Conventions of horror- PLOT. CAMERA MOVEMENT.MUSIC.EDITING.

Scream is a very conventional horror movie, this is something id be very interested in doing.



conventions of a horror..i found the use of camera work and lighting very interesting as it kept the audience more alert, in this short film not a lot at all happened but i chose to uploaded this on my blog so i was aware of the works of the camera.



the only reason i chose to upload this short film onto my blog is because of the music, i feel it could give me a good idea on my time of horror music id want to use in my short film.




i was blown away by the editing in this short film, to make it look like a ghost, also the sound effects..scared me to another level!


my teacher told me how a lot of writers use there fears to create films, this year i would really be interested in creating a short horror film. One of my biggest fears is coming home to an empty house with stranger who have broken in walking around my house, people watching me without me knowin and either being taken and helpless in a horrid situation.

for my movie i want to base the short film on one of my fears of being in a house when you think your home alone. ive been thinking about this idea and when i described it to my teacher craig he wanted me to go into more details, he asked me questions which i was unable to answer so over the weekend i sat down and chose to plan it all.

while looking at other horror films one of the horror films i payed a particular interest in was scream.

im going to base it on a teenage girl whos parents leave her home alone, while she waits for her friend to come round she recieves unknown calls.

Some people can take a joke, but sometimes people take a joke to far.