Horror Movie Brief
Plot: Kenny McDonald's excessive alcoholism has distorted his mind, and led to him coming home one night, blind drunk. After a heated argument with his sober wife, Carol McDonald, he murders her in cold blood.
A week on from the body being buried in the garden, he begins to hallucinate and becomes horribly delusional. Following a series of eerie unnatural events, he becomes convinced that his late wife is haunting him from beyond the grave. He slowly begins to edge into insanity as he hears her voice in his head, and her heartbeat under the soil in the garden. But are the hauntings real, or just a hallucination? For the hauntings to stop once and for all, he feels he must come clean.
Opening: The film opens with blackness, and the sound of an ear-splitting scream. A panning shot starting from behind a bush shows Kenny digging large whole in his garden in the middle of the night, then dumping a body shaped object wrapped in a white veil into said hole. A low angle shot of the camera being covered with soil is seen, then blackness. Kenny is then shown slumping into his armchair and turning on the TV, as though nothing had just happened, until the newsreader he is watching suddenly turns into his wife and starts reporting on her own murder. She frequently repeats the words "Why Kenny?" over and over again randomly during the report. Some eerie sounds fast-paced editing occur as he looks at the screen in confusion and fear, until he shakes his head and shuts his eyes, at which point the newsreader returns to normal and the sounds abruptly stop. He frantically turns off the TV and stands up, shaking his head in disbelief.
The next shot shows him entering the kitchen, along with a close-up of him grabbing a bottle of wine, and then taking a swig. He turns around and sees what appears to be the ghost of Carol. He freezes as she slowly points at him. Kenny drops the wine bottle and we see a close up of it smashing as it hits the floor. He quickly glances at the shards and looks back up to find that Carol has vanished. An eye-line match shows him frantically looking around the room to no avail. A close up of him holding his hand against his forehead is followed by a close up of him sweeping up the shards. The scene ends with the camera dollying behind a cabinet to blackness.
The next scene then opens from behind another cabinet in Kenny's bedroom, showing him in his now roomier bed. The camera rotates around him as he reads a book, and seems abnormally calm. His calmness is interrupted however when the eerie noises return, along with the "Why Kenny?". He shakes his head and the noises halt again. He puts the book down on the cabinet and lies motionless. He looks slightly to his left and the camera is situated in front of him, so that a change in depth of focus reveals that the ghost of Carol is laid in the bed next to him. Kenny swings around and she has once again vanished. His bedside light then begins to flicker, shown by dolly shot closing in on it. The bulb then suddenly pops and the room goes completely black. Some sinister sounds are heard, and the two minute introduction ends.
Genre: I chose the horror genre as it is an excellent opportunity to make use of many different forms of cinematography and editing techniques that would be out of place in other genres, such as jump-cuts. It would also give an excuse to use eerie lighting and sound effects to give shots such as this one, which looks similar to the shot of Carol.
Also, I wanted to be able to use lots of low key lighting to create a rather creepy illumination of the characters, such as this one from the film 'Friday The 13th'
Opening: The film opens with blackness, and the sound of an ear-splitting scream. A panning shot starting from behind a bush shows Kenny digging large whole in his garden in the middle of the night, then dumping a body shaped object wrapped in a white veil into said hole. A low angle shot of the camera being covered with soil is seen, then blackness. Kenny is then shown slumping into his armchair and turning on the TV, as though nothing had just happened, until the newsreader he is watching suddenly turns into his wife and starts reporting on her own murder. She frequently repeats the words "Why Kenny?" over and over again randomly during the report. Some eerie sounds fast-paced editing occur as he looks at the screen in confusion and fear, until he shakes his head and shuts his eyes, at which point the newsreader returns to normal and the sounds abruptly stop. He frantically turns off the TV and stands up, shaking his head in disbelief.
The next shot shows him entering the kitchen, along with a close-up of him grabbing a bottle of wine, and then taking a swig. He turns around and sees what appears to be the ghost of Carol. He freezes as she slowly points at him. Kenny drops the wine bottle and we see a close up of it smashing as it hits the floor. He quickly glances at the shards and looks back up to find that Carol has vanished. An eye-line match shows him frantically looking around the room to no avail. A close up of him holding his hand against his forehead is followed by a close up of him sweeping up the shards. The scene ends with the camera dollying behind a cabinet to blackness.
The next scene then opens from behind another cabinet in Kenny's bedroom, showing him in his now roomier bed. The camera rotates around him as he reads a book, and seems abnormally calm. His calmness is interrupted however when the eerie noises return, along with the "Why Kenny?". He shakes his head and the noises halt again. He puts the book down on the cabinet and lies motionless. He looks slightly to his left and the camera is situated in front of him, so that a change in depth of focus reveals that the ghost of Carol is laid in the bed next to him. Kenny swings around and she has once again vanished. His bedside light then begins to flicker, shown by dolly shot closing in on it. The bulb then suddenly pops and the room goes completely black. Some sinister sounds are heard, and the two minute introduction ends.
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| Screenshot from 'Friday The 13th'. |
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