Photography for Ancillary Tasks

For our ancillary tasks we wanted out villain to be the main focus, especially in the poster. We felt it was more effective to use a scary image to persuade our target audience to see the film. Whilst filming for our teaser trailer we were able to take photos of our villain in the dark, which was an appropriate background.

This was one of the many photos we took with a possibility of being used for our poster or website. The expression on her face could be quite intimidating and scary with the right editing. She is looking directly at the camera and therefor at the audience.

These two photos were edited from the original above. The reason for using red and green was to signify different codes and conventions of a horror film. The red one uses the three gothic colours, red, black and white, and represents blood, murder and is a typical convention of a horror film.
However, the green picture represents our super natural sub-genre and well as jealousy which is part of our narrative.
After consideration, we decided that these pictures faded into the background too much and didnt stand out as much as they should do for a poster, however the angle and expression of the face it really interesting and works well for either a poster of as an image for  a website.

This was our final edit of this particular photo and found that is was far more effective than the others. The features of the face are far more defined, it uses the three gothic colours again and the pale white skin and dark eyes help the face stand out. The character looks more intimidating and scary.

Supernatural Horror

Supernatural Films: These films include ghosts, apparitions, spirits, miracles, and other similar ideas or depictions of extraordinary phenomena. They can be combined with other genres such as Sci-fi, Fanatasy and Horror.

A few films in the mid-1940s established ghosts and the power of the supernatural as serious horror themes.
For Example, The Uninvited (1944) about a music critic and his sister who purchase a spooky seaside home with vengeful spirits and eerie occurrences.
Codes and Conventions of this Horror - the smell of mimosas, unexplanably chilled rooms, flickering candles, opening and closing creaking doors, supernatural apparitions, the sound of sobbing and moaning in the night.
- Supernatural and Religious Films also became apparent durint the 1940s For example The Enchanted Cottage (1944) -

Low budget Supernatural/Horror films were created in the 1950s through tp the 1970s. The Haunting (1963) based on Shirley Jackson's classic ghost story about a group of folks brought together, by a parapsychologist and two mediums, to spend a night in a spooky haunted Hill House - a family estate in New England.

Ghost stories also abounded in the 1980s and continued to made from then on. The Shining (1980) an ex-alcoholic, failed writer who becomes the caretaker of a huge, wintry Colorado resort and turns psychotic toward his family as he resorts to the same behavior as the former caretaker who axe-murdered his family in the past.