Update 22-11-10 (Behind the scenes)

All the images below were taken from our filming days which was set in the chapel in our college.




Filming in our media classroom using the blue screen and applying the makeup for the gruesome scene

Research Update 15-11-10 (Vampire - Sub genre)

Monster is a name commonly given to films that center around the struggle between human beings and one or more monsters. While there is no specific academic genre classification of that name, the term is usually applied to films sometimes labeled as horror, fantasy, or science fiction films.

These films involve fictional creatures, but in most cases they are over-sized monsters, despite its beginnings with adaptations

of horror folklore and literature. In Japanese cinema, such monsters are referred to as Kaiju.

Typically, monsters in films differ from more traditional antagonists in that many exist due to circumstances beyond their control; their actions not entirely based on choice, potentially making them objects of empathy to film viewers.

30 Days of Night is about a town in Alaska being invaded by vampires as there will be no sun and complete darkness for 30 days.

Another vampire film that was popular was Dracula 2000,

Research Update 13-11-10 (Psychological - Sub genre)

Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot Psychological horror derive their effects from gore and violence, and from the sub-genre of horror of personality, in which the object of horror does not look like a monstrous other, but rather a normal human being, whose horrific identity is often not revealed until well into the work, or even at the very end.

An example of a psychological horror is The unborn, directed by David S Goyer and released in January 2009.





Another example of psychological horror is 'The village' directed by M. Night Shyamalan, released in July 2004.

Research Update 9-11-10 (Comedy - Sub genre)

Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is a literacy and film genre, combining elements of comedy and horror fiction. The comedy horror genre almost always inevitably crosses over with the black comedy genre; and in some respects could be considered a subset of it.

As we all well know comedy is a popular demand from any generation with a purpose to provide humour especially in television and film. Horror is what unsettles the viewers bringing forth emotions of fear and disgust.

This enables us when we come across this sub genre to be intrigued in how it will be made possible to achieve this goal of laughter and fear.



Shaun of the dead is a popular romantic comedy horror film, directed by Edgar Wright and releashed in 2004. The trailer displays to the viewers that it contains the conventions of an comedy horror with the endless humour coming from actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost along with the gory zombies that appear throughout with missing limbs and disfigured faces.





Another example of a comedy horror is Lesbian vampire killers, a british film that was releashed in 2009 and directed by Phil Claydon.

Research Update 8-11-10 (Thriller - Sub genre)

Thriller is a genre of literature, film and television that uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements. There are several primary sub genres of thriller that are used frequently within films, they are; mystery, crime and psychological.

It is mostly characterised by an atmosphere of violence, crime and murder by showing society as dark, corrupt and dangerous, though they often feature a happy ending in which the villains are killed or arrested, Evidently being a typical convention for all type of thriller films.

Religious Thrillers are of a big relevance to our group as that it conveys with the religious theme and thriller genre we shall use for our film.

An exceedingly popular religious thriller is 'Devils Advocate' directed by Taylor Hackford, released in 1997.

In this trailer, In contains some conventions for the thriller sub genre. There is a lot of suspense and tension within the main characters dialogue that leave the audience clueless and eager to know more. We get a hint of corruption with the characters in a few of the shots and quite a bit of distubring words about God, leading to an eerie sense of direction to satan being more favourable in this film.

Research Update 4-11-10 (Slasher - Sub genre)

Slasher is an subgenre from horror films, usually it involves a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a very graphic and violent manner using cutting tool, hence the name slasher. These such as a chainsaw, Although the term "slasher" may be used as a generic term for any horror movie involving graphic acts of murder, the slasher as a genre has its own set of characteristics which tells it apart from sub genres.

This is the official trailer for Scream, directed by Wes Craven (a known horror director) it was released in 1996 and then after had several sequels going up to 3 with a new upcoming scream 4 out in april 2011. In this trailer we can see it holds conventional attributes for the slasher theme, we have the psychological killer that eventually gets unmasked at the end, followed up by the victims that are stabbed throughout the film and a main character (Cindy) survives the bloodshed to venture into the sequels.



Another known and popular slasher film is Halloween directed by John Carpenter which was releashed in 1978 followed by several sequels.





This trailer also follows the typical conventions of the slasher subgenre. We have the psychological killer (Michael Myers) that isn't unmasked but is discovered by the end of the film.

Film Poster Draft 4

Magazine Cover Draft with all annotations.

Film Poster Draft 3

Magazine Cover Draft with all annotations.

Film Poster Draft 2

Magazine Cover Draft With all annotations.

Film Poster Draft 1

Magazine Cover Draft With all annotations.

Magazine Cover Draft 3

Magazine Cover Draft 2

This is the design that we chose to go with for our magazine cover.

Magazine Cover Draft 1

Update 1-11-10

We done excessive research on film magazines, analysing the conventions that can be similar within several magazines or individual ones that break out of the mundane qualities.

In the empire magazine cover first off you can see that the masthead appears to be behind the actor and for the total film cover it is on top of the actor. These are both very common conventions and whether either of them is used depends on what idea people are going for. We as a group decided we want to follow the convention of the masthead behind the actor because it doesn't overtake the image overall but has importance and is still visable for people to see. The coverlines are something that is most prominent for a magazine cover. It needs to be able to attract the audience with it's use of promotion for other films or what is offered to possibly intrigue them like reviews, exclusive interview etc... The conventions for the coverlines are different to each other in these covers. Empire mag has all coverlines on the left side of the cover whilst Total film has it on both sides to seem as though it is rounds the image, we are more elicited to going again with what Empire has done because of the focus on one said of the image whereas we can place other information on the other side like the title and invitation's to get free items.