Production of horror during 1980's

• During the 80’s horror was losing a lot of its mainstream appeal.
• This was quickly helped through special effects.
• The realism of special effects led in one direction to movies where watching flying bits of body became the point.
• At this time horror had become firmly established with quality work.

Research on decades of horror films and timeline

   1920               FILM                                         ACTOR                 DIRECTOR

             
                Hunchback of Notre dame (1923)      Lon Chaney Sr          Wallace Worsley

               Waxwork (1924)                                Werner Krauss            Paul Leni

               The Monster (1925)                            Lon Chaney Sr           Roland West

               The Phantom of the Opera (1925)      Lon Chaney Sr           Rupert Julian

               The Lost World (1925)                       Wallace Beery            Harry O Hoyt

   1930    Dracula (1931)                                     Béla Lugosi               Tod Browning

               Frankenstein (1931)                             Colin Clive                James Whale

               The Invisible Man (1933)                    Claude Rains             James Whale

               Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)   Lionell Atwill           Michael Curtiz

   1940    Cat People (1942)                                 Simone Simon           Jacques Tourneur

               I Walked wit a Zombie (1943)              James Ellison            Jacques Tourneur

               The Body Snatcher (1945)                    Boris Karloff             Robert Wise

   1950    The Thing from Another World (1951) Kenneth Tobey        Howard Hawks

               The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)         Peter Cushing           Terence Fisher

               Dracula (1958)                                        Christopher Lee       Terence Fisher

               The Mummy (1959)                               Peter Cushing           Terence Fisher

   1960     The Innocents (1961)                            Deborah Kerr            Jack Clayton

                The Haunting (1963)                             Julie Harris                Robert Wise

                The Birds (1963)                                   Tippi Hedren             Alfred Hitchcock

                Night of the Living Dead (1968)           Duane Jones              George Romero

   1970     The Exorcist (1973)                               Ellen Burstyn           William Friedkin

                The Omen (1976)                                   Gregory Peck            Richard Donner

                The Sentinel (1977)                                Chris Sarandon         Michael Winner

                Audrey Rose (1977)                               Marsha Mason          Robert Wise

   1980    Friday the 13^th (1980)                              Betsy Palmer             Sean Cunningham

               Alien (1980)                                             Tom Skerrit              Ridley Scott

               Childs Play (1988)                                   Cartherine Hicks       Tom Holland

               A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)          John Saxon                Wes Craven

  1990     Braindead (1992)                                     Timothy Balme         Peter Jackson

               Scream (1996)                                          Drew Barrymore       Wes Craven

               I Know What You Did Last Summer       Multi star                  Jim Gillespie   

               (1997)

Storyboard for my second horror trailer

This is the storyboard plan for my second horror trailer although a few scenes were edited.It helped me and my group organise and decide altogether exactly what we wanted, rather than thinking different scenes without planning or writing them down which we did for my first horror trailer .

My second horror trailer

                           

Planning: What you did? I was the main actress in this trailer.

Execution: What went well? The editing scenes, location and plot of the trailer went well.

Editing: What would you change/do differently? I would change the direction the villain comes out of and make her come out from the stair case which is the direction i was looking at in fear.

Comment on effectiveness: How does it meet structuralist expectations? Victim + Isolated school + Villain = reinforcement of horror encapsulated in the audience.                                       

My first horror trailer

What you did?  I took part in creating the sound effects and being the villain
What are the effects? The effects are that it evokes fear with the actor's facial expressions and body language
How does it obey structural paradigms? It obeys structural paradigms through the constructions of Victim + Isolated school+Stalker (villain) = fear evoked
What would you improve? I would add more scenes of the villain attacking and add tone cards

Saw 3D trailer and structural timeline

Equilibrium: Establishing shot of buildings
Moment of disequilibrium: At 19 secs the entertainer's hand is stuck in the machinery
Disequilibrium continues: At 34 secs a man screaming with blood and another at 40 secs is tramped in a cage and hung in the air, the audience is tied to their chairs in the cinema.
Tone cards: At 57 secs "Will you survive till the end?" creates discomfort of safety and conjures fear
Last shot: At 1.16 secs the actress is tied and in front of a moving machinery/ride which subverts audiences reactions as it moves toward them instead this creates terror and presents the powerful 3D effects.

Let me in trailer and structural timeline

Equilibrium: School assembly
Moment of dis equilibrium: Child is bullied at 12 secs non diegetic music is introduced
Conflict: At 46 secs hear a bang and extreme close up of child's eyes evokes fear
Tone cards: At 36 secs "Something wicked lives" this creates doubt of disequilibrium and the sense of something is going to go wrong.
Disequilibrium continues: Screams dark gloomy images with night vision used and fast music played and loud bang repeats.
Last shot: jump cuts used, fast non diegetic souns and extreme close - up of man's eyes near door creates doubts in audience and generates fear.