Preparation for Final Task Mind Maps

   Now we have completed our preliminary task, we have to produce a final product of a two minute clip in the format of an opening scene or even sequence, we will have to work in a team once again; we will all have to work together. Our team have decided to produce a horror scene as we believe this has the most dramatic content. I believe that the genre horror is best suited for this task and we hope to follow in James Watkins footsteps. There are numerous techniques our group can use which involves more than the mise en scene, for example in the preliminary task one of my improvements was to introduce a lighting technique and we are able to do this here as horrors are notorious for low key lighting and desaturation. Before we start the filming prospect we have to derive a plan of action this will start with the production of a mind map which entails the main themes which we think our important to our horror film. This is the group work that I have participated in, we used an app called Simple Mind+ to ensure all of our ideas where set out neatly and where easily accessible.

These are some of the thoughts we have about horror movies and how they relate to our movie :

We begin with some basic headings of what we thought had to be in our horror movie:

Initial Ideas

We then began to divulge into more greater aspects of the film.

Know that we have a general idea of what we want to achieve in the film we need to pick a name therefore we all put our ideas together and began to brainstorm. Horrors can "make it or break" just on their name for example: the most financially successful horror movie is “Friday the 13th," you can tell that this film will be enthralling as it is old folk law that something malicious happens on Friday the thirteenth. More over "Saw" is ranked the most successful horror movie franchise of all time. On the other hand some horrors have flopped just due to their names for example "house of Wax."

We have chosen the name: The Woods Have Ears. This has a familiarity to it as it sounds similar to the horror film: The Hills Have Eyes. We all like this name as it fits perfectly with our horror genre and most of our action takes place in the woods. With out giving to much away, our protagonist cannot escape the daunting whispers in the wind.