General Information of ideas...

- Horror based film.

- Title: Walking with the dead.

- The main characters: Grace who is 19 years of age, her younger brother Harry and his imaginary friend.

- Release date: October time (due to halloween).

- Target audience: 16 to 26 years of age.

- Production company: 'Sharpie' productions.

- Distribution: Universal.

Storyline: Follows Todorovs theory.

Equilibrium is... Harry's being normal with his 'imaginary friend'

Disruption is... Harry's behavior changes.

Notice is... his sister notices the change.

Resolution... his sister takes him to a mental institution, starts hurting people and is sent home and is told he is fine.

New Equilibrium is... ends with him at home with his sister walking in the door and then walks out as a man.

The title sequence development...

Starts off with a shot of the house looking bright and normal. Harry then comes home from school doing the normal boy stuff - putting his bag down, runs up the stairs to his bedroom and there's a notice of change.

What is a title sequence?

'A title sequence is the method by which cinematic films or television programs present their title, key production and cast members.' A title sequence is also used to simply show the audience the main ideologies of the film, for example the genre of the film and the target audience.

Timeline of Horror films...

1950- God, man and devil - Joseph Seiden(director)
1951- Bride of the Gorilla – Curt Siodmak (director)
1952- The Black Castle – Nathan Juran (director)
1953- Donovan’s Brain – Felix Feist(director)
1954- The Mad Magician – John Brahm(director)
1955-Dementia – John Parker(director)
1956- Invasion of the body snatchers – Kevin McCartney(director)
1957-Voodoo Island – Reginald Le Borg(director)
1958- Dracula – Terence Fisher(director)
1959- Beast from haunted cave – Monte Hellman(director)

1960- House of terror – Gilberto Martinez Solares(director)
1961- The mask – Julian Roffman (director)
1962- The Phantom of the Opera - Terence Fisher(director)
1963- The Birds – Alfred Hitchcock(director)
1964- The haunting – Robert Wise(director)
1965- Die, monster, die! – Daniel Haller(director)
1966- Chamber of horrors – Hy Averback(director)
1967- A taste of blood – Herschell Gordon Lewis(director)
1968- The Ghastly Ones – Andy Milligan(director)
1969- Taste the blood of Dracula – Peter Sasdy(director)

1970- The horror of Frankenstein – Jimmy Sangster(director)
1971- The Devils’s Nightmare – Jean Brismée(director)
1972- Death line – Gary Sherman(director)
1973- The Exorcist – William Friedkin (director)
1974- It’s alive! – Larry Cohen(director)
1975- Trilogy of terror – Dan Curtis(director)
1976- The Omen – Richard Donner(director)
1977- The Hills have eyes – Wes Craven (director)
1978- Halloween – John Carpenter(director)
1979- Alien – Ridley Scott(director)

1980- Friday 13th – Sean Cunningham(director)
1981- Eyes of a stranger – Ken Wisederhorn(director)
1982- The thing – John Carpenter(director)
1983- Psycho II – Richard Franklin(director)
1984- Razorback – Russell Mulcahy(director)
1985- Midnight Hour – Jack Bender(director)
1986- Witchboard – Kevin Tenney(director)
1987- Mirror of death – Deryn Warren(director)
1988- Waxwork – Anthony Hickox(director)
1989- Skinned Alive – Jon Killough(director)

1990- Child’s play 2 – John Lafia(director)
1991- The People under the stairs – Wes Craven(director)
1992- The Untold story – Herman Yau(director)
1993- Frankenstein – David Wickes(director)
1994- In the mouth of madness – John Carpenter(director)
1995- Night of the scarecrow – Jeff Burr(director)
1996- Scream – Wes Craven(director)
1997- The Shining – Mick Garris(director)
1998- Psycho – Gus Van Sant(director)
1999- The blair witch project – Daniel Myrick(director)

2000- Final desination – James Wong(director)
2001- Jeepers Creepers – Victor Salva(director)
2002- The Ring – Gore Verbinski(director)
2003- The texas Chainsaw massacre- Marcus Nispel(director)
2004– Saw – James Wan(director)
2005- The Exorcism of Emily Rose – Scott Derrickson(director)
2006- One missed call – Manabu Asou(director)
2007- 28 days later – Juan Carlos Fresnadillo(director)
2008- The Strangers – Bryan Bertino (director)
2009- Saw 6 – James Wan(director)
2010- Let me in - Matt Reeves (director)

What are horror films?

Horror Films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films effectively center on the dark side of life, the forbidden, and strange and alarming events.

Horror films go back as far as the onset of films themselves, over a 100 years ago. From our earliest days, we use our vivid imaginations to see ghosts in shadowy shapes, to be emotionally connected to the unknown and to fear things that are improbable. Watching a horror film gives an opening into that scary world, into an outlet for the essence of fear itself, without actually being in danger. Weird as it sounds, there's a very real thrill and fun factor in being scared or watching disturbing, horrific images.

Feedback to others of our ideas...

During one of our media lessons, our group had to pitch our ideas for the film development to the rest of the class to get different views for both the positive and negative sides of the groups ideas. Each group were given a sheet to full out all the feedback on, while our group was giving the pitch. Below are the scanned sheets in which each group filled out...

An example of the order of titles...

Example of order of titles:
- When analysing ‘Se7en’ title sequence...
1. Company names...
2. Distributor 1st ...
3. Production 2nd ...
4. Film by...
5. Characters names/actors...
6. Film name...
7. More actors/actresses...
8. Casting by...
9. Music by...
10. Costume designer...
11. Editors...
12. Production designer...
13. Director of photography...
14. Co producers...
15. Co executive producers...
16. Executive producers...
17. Written by...
18. Produced by...
19. Directed by...

Production Logo...

When making this logo for our production company, we chose to use quite dark colours as the company are going to mainly produce horror films. The name of our company came about randomly, but when thinking about what could symbolise it, we started to think about sharp objects. The image we chose to represent sharp was a syringe. A syringe can be associated with death and illness, which is quite a dark thing to think about. This links to the types of films the company is likely to produce. The font of the company name was found on DaFont under the Horror section, which perfectly fits in to the genre. The writing is quite formal in a way, but there are little blotches over the writing, which make it look slightly distorted, and less clean. The red line underneath the writing makes the writing stand out, and the colour could connote blood and anger.