Top 3 Horror movies
According to the imdb (Internet movie database) the third greatest horror film is The Shining (1980), the film is about the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny, the son, sees visions of the hotel's past using a gift known as "The Shining". Father, Jack Torrance, slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotels ghost's.
The Second greatest horror film is Alien (1979) In this film a mining ship lands on a planet to investigate a suspected SOS, the whole crew are unaware of the terror. When a alien life-form attach's itself to the face of a crew member, the rest of the team act fast to try and separate the two organisms.
According to the imdb the number one greatest horror film of all time is about a woman who steals $40,000 so she can move away with her boyfriend. On her way to meet her boyfriend she stays in a remote motel where she is brutally murdered.
These are very different films but all have things in common, one of the main features is that they all involve death in some way, this death is usually followed by more people investigating it and then ending up dead themselves, there are often only a few characters so you get to know and relate to them and sometimes the murderer is someone you have got to know through the film.
Acording to another website the number 1 top rated thriller is the Godfather, followed by, The Godfather: Part II and the Dark Knight is third. This gives us a general idea of what people may want to see. Very Dark films with lots of suspense and twists.
Definition
Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, television, and gaming that includes numerous and often overlapping genres.
Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Literary devices such assuspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively. "Homer's Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the Western world and is regarded as an early prototype of the thriller." A thriller is villain driven plot, whereby he presents obstacles the hero must overcome. The genre is a fascinatingly flexible form that can undermine audience complacency through a dramatic rendering of psychological, social, familial and political tensions and encourages sheltered but sensation-hungry audiences, in Hitchcock's phrase, "to put their toe in the cold water of fear to see what it's like."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)
Editing
To Edit our film we will be using Windows movie maker. This is because it is easy to use as well as being an affective editing tool. Movie maker makes it possible to capture video straight from the camera meaning you will not acidentaly import it in the wrong file type and not be able to edit it. This software also alows the use of transitions, effects, titles and credits. We would have been using Adobe premire but it was not working properly on the computers.
Auidence theory's
Looking at the 3 audience theory's "The hypodermic syringe", "The Culmination Theory" and "The two step flow" we decided that none of these really related to our piece, this is because for 1, we don't think that it is strong enough to "inject" people with our ideas, for the second theory we would be part of a larger group of films, our piece on it's own would not be able to influence enough people. However for the third thoery we would hope that people would discuss our piece, so if we had to pick one it would be this one.
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