Planning and Research.
Research on a Film Director
James Wan (born 27 February 1977) is a Malaysian-born Australian producer, screenwriter, and film director of Chinese heritage. He is widely known for directing horror films of different sub genres such as Saw and creating Billy the puppet. He also directed Dead Silence, Death Sentence and Insidious.Before becoming popular in the film industry, he made his first feature film Stygian with Shannon Young, which won 'Best Guerrilla Film' at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in 2000.
He met future business partner Leigh Whannell while studying at RMIT. He would later go on to co-create and direct the 2003 horror film (and franchise). Saw with the help of Whannell, who wrote the script. Wan and Whannell made a short version of the film to showcase the script. Whannell played the role of David in the short film, and the leading role of Adam in the feature film. The three producers who saw the short film and read Whannell's screenplay agreed to produce the film before Wan and Whannell even landed in Los Angeles. Wan and Whannell decided to forgo upfront salary in return for gross profits. Shot for a low US$1.2 million budget, the producers had a straight-to-DVD release in mind. However, Saw was to become a surprise record breaking theatrical horror franchise, earning Wan and Whannell much more than they had originally predicted.
Since creating the franchise, Wan and Whannell have served as executive producers to the sequels Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV,Saw V, Saw VI and Saw 3D. He has been busy creating other works with his film school partner Leigh Whannell. In 2007, he went on to broaden his filmography with another horror movie, Dead Silence, and the action drama Death Sentence. Having worked on his last three films back to back, Wan told Crave Online that he is ready for "a bit of time off just to chill... but at the same time I'm using this opportunity to write again." Wan also directed a trailer for the survival horror video game Dead Space.
The Conventions of a horror movie.
Horror films are unsettling movies that aim to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. They feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of chilling and the supernatural powers. Horror movies all in some sort of way have to share the type background, if you study and watch a variety of different horror genres you realise they all have a connection. From Monster films all the way down to Slasher films.
Here’s a list of conventions of all horror films would consist of: Bloody scenes, Death, Killings, Villains, Victims, Haunted houses and isolated settings, Monsters, Evil , Weapons, Darkness, Storms, Chase sequences, Gore, Violence, Screams, Ghosts, low key lighting, colour connotations.
That all the listings above are what create horror movies without these conventions the film wouldn’t create the effect it has on the audiences.
Research on three different horror films.
Scream
The Horror film Scream is an American 1996 slasher film written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven, this film was released on December 20th 1996. This film had a budget of 15 Million dollars and grossed 173,046,663 dollars box office being the highest grossing horror film in the US. Had Star power with actress such as Courtney Cox and David Arquette. The film scream follows the horror ‘final girl’ convention as the main character is a female with a unisex name. This film was one of the first horror films to include comedy within horror, this film was considered unique. As this is a slasher film it will have these characteristics: Killer, Victims, Final girl and violence.
The Ring
The Ring, 2002 American psychological horror film which was directed by Gore Verbinski and featured stars such as Naomi watts and Martin Henderson. This film was originally a j-horror film made in 1998. The budget for this film was 48 Million dollars and its grossed $249,348,933 box office. Both films are based on Koji Suzuki's novel Ring and focus on a mysterious cursed videotape which contains a seemingly random series of disturbing images. After watching the tape, the viewer receives a phone call in which a girl's spooky voice announces that the viewer will die in seven days. Psychological films are often based on human psyche an focus on possession and dark forces but on a whole this sub genre tries to create a sense of realism.
Gothinka
Gothika is a 2003 Supernatural thriller film which is directed by Mathieu Kassovitz the budget was 40 million dollars and it grossed 141.6 million box office. It stars the actress Halle Berry who plays a psychiatrist in a women's mental hospital who wakes up one day to find her on the other side of the bars, accused of having murdered her husband. The film was first released on November 21, 2003 in the United States. At the time of its release, Gothika was the most successful film from Dark Castle Entertainment with $141.6 million. Thiller films are usually known to be outside the horror genre as its more of a mystery type theme but it depends on the graphical concept of the film.
James Wan (born 27 February 1977) is a Malaysian-born Australian producer, screenwriter, and film director of Chinese heritage. He is widely known for directing horror films of different sub genres such as Saw and creating Billy the puppet. He also directed Dead Silence, Death Sentence and Insidious.Before becoming popular in the film industry, he made his first feature film Stygian with Shannon Young, which won 'Best Guerrilla Film' at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in 2000.
He met future business partner Leigh Whannell while studying at RMIT. He would later go on to co-create and direct the 2003 horror film (and franchise). Saw with the help of Whannell, who wrote the script. Wan and Whannell made a short version of the film to showcase the script. Whannell played the role of David in the short film, and the leading role of Adam in the feature film. The three producers who saw the short film and read Whannell's screenplay agreed to produce the film before Wan and Whannell even landed in Los Angeles. Wan and Whannell decided to forgo upfront salary in return for gross profits. Shot for a low US$1.2 million budget, the producers had a straight-to-DVD release in mind. However, Saw was to become a surprise record breaking theatrical horror franchise, earning Wan and Whannell much more than they had originally predicted.
Since creating the franchise, Wan and Whannell have served as executive producers to the sequels Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV,Saw V, Saw VI and Saw 3D. He has been busy creating other works with his film school partner Leigh Whannell. In 2007, he went on to broaden his filmography with another horror movie, Dead Silence, and the action drama Death Sentence. Having worked on his last three films back to back, Wan told Crave Online that he is ready for "a bit of time off just to chill... but at the same time I'm using this opportunity to write again." Wan also directed a trailer for the survival horror video game Dead Space.
The Conventions of a horror movie.
Horror films are unsettling movies that aim to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. They feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of chilling and the supernatural powers. Horror movies all in some sort of way have to share the type background, if you study and watch a variety of different horror genres you realise they all have a connection. From Monster films all the way down to Slasher films.
Here’s a list of conventions of all horror films would consist of: Bloody scenes, Death, Killings, Villains, Victims, Haunted houses and isolated settings, Monsters, Evil , Weapons, Darkness, Storms, Chase sequences, Gore, Violence, Screams, Ghosts, low key lighting, colour connotations.
That all the listings above are what create horror movies without these conventions the film wouldn’t create the effect it has on the audiences.
Research on three different horror films.
Scream
The Horror film Scream is an American 1996 slasher film written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven, this film was released on December 20th 1996. This film had a budget of 15 Million dollars and grossed 173,046,663 dollars box office being the highest grossing horror film in the US. Had Star power with actress such as Courtney Cox and David Arquette. The film scream follows the horror ‘final girl’ convention as the main character is a female with a unisex name. This film was one of the first horror films to include comedy within horror, this film was considered unique. As this is a slasher film it will have these characteristics: Killer, Victims, Final girl and violence.
The Ring
The Ring, 2002 American psychological horror film which was directed by Gore Verbinski and featured stars such as Naomi watts and Martin Henderson. This film was originally a j-horror film made in 1998. The budget for this film was 48 Million dollars and its grossed $249,348,933 box office. Both films are based on Koji Suzuki's novel Ring and focus on a mysterious cursed videotape which contains a seemingly random series of disturbing images. After watching the tape, the viewer receives a phone call in which a girl's spooky voice announces that the viewer will die in seven days. Psychological films are often based on human psyche an focus on possession and dark forces but on a whole this sub genre tries to create a sense of realism.
Gothinka
Gothika is a 2003 Supernatural thriller film which is directed by Mathieu Kassovitz the budget was 40 million dollars and it grossed 141.6 million box office. It stars the actress Halle Berry who plays a psychiatrist in a women's mental hospital who wakes up one day to find her on the other side of the bars, accused of having murdered her husband. The film was first released on November 21, 2003 in the United States. At the time of its release, Gothika was the most successful film from Dark Castle Entertainment with $141.6 million. Thiller films are usually known to be outside the horror genre as its more of a mystery type theme but it depends on the graphical concept of the film.