Stage One: Pre-production. Task 1: Concept.

I am wanting to make the viewers feel excited and anticipate what will happen next. I want them to think about how much we (teenagers) could do if we put our minds to it.

My film will be about 4 young teenage girls playing hide and seek at a friends house. It will be mostly filmed from the seekers point of view but will use other camera shots also. One of the girls finds a map in the wardrobe she was hiding in, the 4 girls have to make the decision to follow the map or not. The audience will not know what choice they made and so will be left pondering their choice.  My film will be shot as an adventure film. 

Horror Film Study, Task One: Describe a Convention

The masked stalker is a recurring convention throughout the horror movies, Halloween and Scream. The masked stalker creates a sense of uncertainty. It makes the audience think about who the unknown murderer could be and if it is someone we have met earlier in the film. We find out who the masked stalker in Halloween is at the very beginning when we see him, Michael Myers, kill his sister and boyfriend after they just had sex. Compared to Scream where we don't find out who the masked stalker is until the end of the film, in Scream there are two masked murderers who are portrayed as the same person.
By Scream having two murderers using the same identity it confuses the viewer and whenever they thought they knew who the killer was, it would make them change their mind again. This was a clever technique because of the latter, it made the viewer think and question themselves throughout the film.
Becuase we find out at the beginning who the masked murderer is in Halloween it makes the viewer consider different tactics on how they could catch him. It also makes you wonder how the characters in the film don't realise that he is right there, we know he is there because you hear his heavy breathing and a specific tune begins to play but the characters are oblivious. This specific tune also builds up tension and makes the audience anticipate what is about to happen, although sometimes it is a "bus" and nothing scary happens.