Blog Four- Opening Sequence

The Opening Sequence of a teen horror film is very important to study for when I come to write the opening sequence to my script, it is important to caprure and grasp the audiences attention and draw them into the story and set the scence. The audience should also get to know the charactors, I watched the opening sequence of two teen horrors Jenifers Body and Sorority Row. SororityRow begins at a house party where we meet a group of friends who set out a prank on her friend which goes wrong. The logistics are simular in Jenifers Body we meet the charactors which are two best friends however we know from the start that she has been killed.

Blog Three - Institutional Contexts

I wanted to research which film companies were creating these horror films and what were their budgets were. for example there are some new recent horror productions, 'Devil' made by media rights capital and had an estimated budget of 10,000,0000 'Resident evil afterlife'made by constantin film produktion is another recent horror which had an estimated budget of 60,000,000. 'case 39' made by misha films which has estimated buget at 62,000,000. another example of a high budget horror is the ;nightmare of Elm Street' which the budget is estimated at 35,000,000. These high Budget horror films have well known actors and will have high tech effects and graphics etc... that is why most recent horror films have been made at a high budget.

Blog Two - Target Audience

We have been studying the teen horror Jenifers body and the target audience it attracts, and its audience ratings. I found that 4,141 females voted, however a massive 19,044 males voted making it obvious that males are more interested in the film. The chart below represents the audiences voting report.

The age group that watched Jenifers body and gave their opinions were vastly aged between 18-29 years olds, this is useful and insightful infomation to keep in mind when I write my teen horror script.

The cheerleader figure and sexual references capture the teen audience which I can keep in mind when I write my script I could convey simular details and ideas in my plot.

We also studied and researched another teen horror film 'Sorority Row' which we discoverd attracted a simular audience,with 5,662 males voting, and 1,112 females voting, making it clear that again the teen horror genre of this film was more popular with males. As this chart proves.

The age group inwhich this film was most popularly attracing was again aged between 18-29 making it obvious that this is the key audience I need to attract when I am writting my script.

Blog One - Introduction - Pre Production

The pre production task which we have been set is to create a few miniutes of a script for a teenage horror film.