Script

A Bloodcurdling Accident-Script

Scene 1

Fade in: music playing

INT. School hallway-Night

Slowly walking through her old dark and dourly bare school corridor, Denise returns, but for a different agenda this time!

Dissolve to: music playing

Scene 2

Denise walks down the same school hallway but this time as a student she was ten years ago, being tormented by her so-called classmates.

Enter Denise with a gang of girls named Jen, Priya and Vanessa, (along with other boys and girls filling the corridor)

VANESSA – As Denise walks towards the toilets. Pointing at her whispering to Priya and Jen (ALL LAUGH)

DENISE-looks behind her and realises the word SLAG written on her school blazer

Runs towards toilets crying but not before Vanessa grabs her by the hair and leads her into the playground outside.

Scene 3

Jen grabs a sharp stick to hand to Vanessa.

Priya – grabbing Denise by her blazer ‘you deserve a whipping you filthy little girl’

Vanessa start to beat her with the sharply cut stick till Denise is bleeding all over but Vanessa accidently uses an extremely sharp side of the stick to beat against her neck which leaks out a lot of blood.

Jen, Priya, Vanessa-Scream!

Denise is left in a pool of saturated blood, slowly loosing breath.

Scene 4 –Music Playing

Scene returns back to the first scene of Denise walking down the dark corridors 10 years later prior to her torturous death.

She opens what looks darkened classroom-walks out

Walks into another dark classroom and walks out

Walks into the third classroom and sets her eyes on a girl that looks exactly like Vanessa (Vanessa’s younger sister).

Looks at the girl intently without blinking for a few seconds and vanishes leaving the classroom stunned and frightened into silence

Dissolves shot to playground where Denise stands at her death place and then vanishes again leaving an eerie looking playground behind.

Genre

The genre of a horror film can be a range of different things, its aim could be to startle the viewer in different ways one of them might be through the means of supernatural and have them at the edge of their seats,horrors usually have a thriller genre combined with it also. Horrors usually deal with a persons nightmare, hidden or worst fear. Though a great deal of horror films are surrounded around the supernatural other films that have plots of morbidity, serial killers , a disease/virus outbreak and surrealism may be catergorised as a horror, films such as "Silence of the Lambs", "28 days later" and "Resdidant of Evil" go with this catergory.

Plots surrounded around a horror genre usually involve a evil force, event in the everday world. Elements that are typically in horror films are ghosts, torture, gore,vampires,curses,satanism,demons,viscious animals, cannibals, haunted houses, zombies and serial killers.

Early horror films are greatly based on ninteenth- century literature of the gothic genre, films such as Universals Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein also in (1931).

The first depections of supernatural events appear in the silent short films in the 1890s, the best known to be Le Manoir du diable (aka, "The Haunted House" , 1896) which is sometimes credited to be the first horror film.

In the early 20th century, the first monster appeared in a horror film, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame who had appeared in Victor Hugo's novel, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831).

Visual things contribute to the horror genre colours such as black, grey and red are used in the film posters and blue filters are used in a lot of horror movies. The Mise en Scene of horrors are the use of props like axes, knives,guns and loads of blood. Weapons are sometimes a cliche to the mise en scene of a horror film, they are also very iconic and memorable such as the hand of blades Freddy Kruger uses in the horror movie "Nightmere on Elm Street" and the axe Jack Nicholson uses to cut through the door in the movie "The Shining" and delievers the famous line "Here Comes Johnny". Music and sound are a big nesscitiy to a horror movie, the sound of a scream makes the film more disturbing and scary if a person was to watch a horror movie without sound you would lose the whole illusion and ultimately you wouldnt find the film as interesting and scary.Aswell as that point the music used in a horror creates the mood of the film.

Audience Research Questionare

Audience research questionaire

How old are you?

What gender are you? male/female

What subculture would you relate yourself with?
Emo-
Skater-
Mosher
Casual-
Indie-
Vintage-
Chav-
Sporty-
Other -
None-
what is your favorite film and music genre?
Dance
House
R&B
Rock
Indie
Dubstep
Metal
Reggae
Pop
Other

what nights do you normally watch tv?
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Everyday

what channel do you prefer to watch?
BBC1-3
BBC2
ITV1-4
Channel 4-15
Five
Other-8

What type colours do you expect to see?
Red
Black
Green
White
Grey
Yellow
Blue
Purple
Brown
Pink

Do you like to do some of the thinking during the film?
YES / NO
Do you like a cliffhanger even if there isn’t a 2nd film?
YES / NO
What do you like about the horror genre?
Confusion
Suspense
Hero vs. Villain
Twist
Cliff Hangers
Mystery
Danger
Which of the following horror films have you seen?
Hostel
Saw
The exorcist
Evil dead
Nightmare on elm street
salems lot
the shining
Texas chainsaw massacare
the grudge
the ring

What is your favourite horror film?

Opening Sequence Analysis (Titles)

The Opening Sequence to "The Shining" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw23KM3-Ry8

0.1 - Setting - The Lake
1.08 - Name of The Director - "A Stanley Rubrick Film"
1.12 - Jack Nickolson
1.18 - Shelly Duvall
1.21 - Title - The Shining
1.30 - Featuring
2.04 - Executive Producer
2.10 - Based Upon the Novel By Stephen King
2.16 - Produced in association with "The Producer Circle Company"
2.20 - Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson
2.26 - Produced and Directed by Stanley Kubrick
2.36 - Setting Scene - The Mountains
2.44 - The Hotel

Opening Sequence - "The Lost Boys"

It establishes the genre in the sense that the film starts with a child singing a nursery rhyme which starts off the spooky mood. Then it starts with an area view of the lake, its at night which again gives it the spooky feel. There is another area view of the ferrace wheel at the fair ground. It has a group of young men, walking on the ferrace wheel in leather jackets you automatically ge the impression that their a bad group. The opening sequence introduces the characters in the sense that when we see them they are acting like bullies and walking around being intimidating, you immeditly get the idea that they are the villians in the movie. There is a vampire like feel to them in the way that they are dressed, as well as wearing leather jackets, they have earings they also have their hair styled in a retro grunge type of style. Ultimately they have been styled to have this cool bad boy image with the hair, the clothes and even with them riding motorcycles.