Audience
Evolutionary psychology has ingrained are minds with fear triggers and survival instinct, fear of the dark, fear of being alone, fear of not being heard, and much more Aristotle apotheosized that humans where attracted to scary stories and violence because it helped them purge negative emotions we now call this catharsis by watching violent movies we as humans are meant to release the pent up feelings we all feel at some point I plan on playing with peoples built in survival instinct and fear triggers and pent up feeling of anger and aggression to make my film stand out in horror film circles. I first started my research into psychological horror films by going back to the very beginning and up until 1960 there wasn’t any films …show more content…
Something that I personally thought was most interesting about horror films comes from The Excitation Transfer theory argued in 1978 by a Dr. Dolf Zillmann is that the negative feelings created by horror movies actually intensify the positive feelings when the hero triumphs in the end and with this information I’m thinking about making the film end on a light hearted ending rather than the idea of ending with a bad and upsetting as I previously thought up as to see if I can recreate this effect in my film I can see from films from the 70s and 80s that this theory could definitely be applied as most of the films that I’ve seen from thoughts particular decades have the hero of the story succeeding in defeating or killing the villain which is something I could definitely see myself doing in my film. From my audience research I found that horror films all contain elements of suspense, weather it is the few seconds before the killer appears or the few seconds when the character isn’t sure where the killer is hiding, what’s awaiting him or her in the next room, suspense is a key factor in horror films and is arguably the most enjoyable part of a horror films as the audience are drawn to this feeling …show more content…
I think that the film will have one or two on site locations to shoot part of the film but mostly I will reconstruct the scene in a studio set as this will give me freedom to play about with weather conditions and learn how to recreate different weathers for mood effect in the film, this is something that can be very hard to do if I shot the whole film on site locations. I decided to shot my film in an abandoned building in Aberdeen suburban area and houses with some small areas shot in woodland areas this will give the film a sense of being laid-back and fun-loving nature to it Aberdeen is filled with green spaces blue waters and golden sand making an all-around great place to film my
Evolutionary psychology has ingrained are minds with fear triggers and survival instinct, fear of the dark, fear of being alone, fear of not being heard, and much more Aristotle apotheosized that humans where attracted to scary stories and violence because it helped them purge negative emotions we now call this catharsis by watching violent movies we as humans are meant to release the pent up feelings we all feel at some point I plan on playing with peoples built in survival instinct and fear triggers and pent up feeling of anger and aggression to make my film stand out in horror film circles. I first started my research into psychological horror films by going back to the very beginning and up until 1960 there wasn’t any films …show more content…
Something that I personally thought was most interesting about horror films comes from The Excitation Transfer theory argued in 1978 by a Dr. Dolf Zillmann is that the negative feelings created by horror movies actually intensify the positive feelings when the hero triumphs in the end and with this information I’m thinking about making the film end on a light hearted ending rather than the idea of ending with a bad and upsetting as I previously thought up as to see if I can recreate this effect in my film I can see from films from the 70s and 80s that this theory could definitely be applied as most of the films that I’ve seen from thoughts particular decades have the hero of the story succeeding in defeating or killing the villain which is something I could definitely see myself doing in my film. From my audience research I found that horror films all contain elements of suspense, weather it is the few seconds before the killer appears or the few seconds when the character isn’t sure where the killer is hiding, what’s awaiting him or her in the next room, suspense is a key factor in horror films and is arguably the most enjoyable part of a horror films as the audience are drawn to this feeling …show more content…
I think that the film will have one or two on site locations to shoot part of the film but mostly I will reconstruct the scene in a studio set as this will give me freedom to play about with weather conditions and learn how to recreate different weathers for mood effect in the film, this is something that can be very hard to do if I shot the whole film on site locations. I decided to shot my film in an abandoned building in Aberdeen suburban area and houses with some small areas shot in woodland areas this will give the film a sense of being laid-back and fun-loving nature to it Aberdeen is filled with green spaces blue waters and golden sand making an all-around great place to film my