Visual images of film

Our semantic field of words would be things such as dark, book, and abandoned house and so we would use images to represent these things as it's basically the visual images of our film.The book is used as a prop to set the genre and plot as a teenager reads it and strange things happen because of that.

The film would use an abandoned house to be added to the main idea of the plot and make the scenes a lot more thrilling as the audience know something will go wrong in an abandoned place otherwise it wouldn't be abandoned.

The setting would be in a dark place such as a field or woods where abandoned creepy places would be found. This type of setting is a main point of horror films.

We would also need an old book to fit with out plot as the spirit is summoned from the book.

Characters

The characters we're using are those of which are similar to a typical horror movie as there's always different personalities in the group of teenagers and there tends to be a girl who causes the troubles/problems so it would likely be the girl who picks up this ring in the film we're creating. There's other characters that try to help out but usually get killed off first.

Similar film

Cabin in the woods

This trailer has similar things happening in it that relates to our film i.e. finding an item in a house and making something happen, they find a book and read an extract which causes zombies to appear due to the spell/summoning that is read out. Ours is about 3 teenagers that go into an old barn/building and read a Latin extract from a book which then makes something rise up from the past and then one of them disappears. We're paying homage to this film as we're using ideas from it to create ours.

In this movie there's a character that's not very brave but feels as though they need to do something to impress the rest of the group which is similar to Emily and the person who reads the extract out loud in the Cabin in the Woods is silly for doing so and leads the others to danger.

Genre conventions of horror/thriller:setting

The genre of our film is horror/thriller.

They are normally set in a close knit community or an isolated place.

In an inner city it is normally, an alleyway or maybe outside of a a building or a dark street.

if it is in an abandoned place you can normally see a deserted house, or maybe a run down building.

Houses like this are a typical scene and they are away from other people, so they are normally haunted or something isn't right about them, by showing the gates as broken and swinging it connotes fear, something that makes the audience scared of it.
The places used have a bad history or a story behind them that makes the character go to them.
Typical backdrops are forests, countryside, lakes, old hotels/motels, graveyards.

First two minutes description.

first two minutes description

Title opens with film title - pushed out by the fence, and youths jump over, wearing 'normal' clothes and are relatively fashionable tinny sound of metal fence 'clangs'
Cuts to them entering the building
              building is old and run down probably appears derelict, and is dirty, size doesn't really matter,                 as-long as the exterior from this point of view is that it is abandoned and 'dirty'.
they are then shot breaking in (shot from inside?)
shows feet stepping through the building wearing trainers or boots and the area on the interior seems dusty and again, disused the dust puffs up with every footstep and the sound is prominent.
Flashes to the future and shows what happens (bad things, the noise starts playing, (noise for the ring going on) the future shows individual heavy breathing, scared and heart beat maybe in the background.)
quiet and lonely, breath and footsteps heard, feet are seen again stepping through the floor and building rubble, dusty and misty and sound is quite loud - dominating the others.
Cuts to upstairs and then the future again, shows another individual scared and running screaming this time, more intense, heavy breathing and the heart rate/thuds returns
Cuts back to the charectors and they find the 'shrine' fast cuts here to give pace and atmospheric feelings and a strong tensity.
Shrine is full of odd items, hints are given to death and it looks very much like a stalkers hideout, momento's of people, candles, necklaces and rings but one is obviously more significant that the others.
it cuts through time, (fade, and the heart rate slowly fades in as the image does.) and they take the ring (the noise happens)?
a final cut shows the future again and the individuals flash past, all of them, scared and maybe dead this time - very intense or in pain, crying, or some bad fate happening, like flash backs to the future.

everything flashes off and a new scene is shown
The friends are together, happy and are walking somewhere, down a street, through a wood, and happier music returns, laughing and smiling, they all go to one friends house, and they are happy, they meet other friends, such as a parent and a pet, sister/brother etc, these may be shown in the previous flashes to the future, on the phone to friends explaining their situations or to counsellors or even more serious authorities worrying and panicking.

when the individuals are filmed in the building, they can be filmed from above in adams house and dust can be easily introduced, filmed literally through the cracks in the floor/floorboards.

my film idea

My film idea