The Night Before The End

A Horror Film By Graveyard Productions.

Why Did We Choose Horror ?• Firstly, as a group we discussed different film genres and spoke

about what we like and what our favourite films are. After this discussion, we realised that a common theme which appeared in our conversation was the idea of a thrill and the idea of suspense and fear – which are elements of a horror scene. We then decided that we would create a film of the horror genre as it was something everyone would enjoy in the group and also felt that we could create a very effective horror scene. This is because it is a very explorative genre and can use many different sub-genres and we were able to put together a range of ideas for horror.

Our Film Concept

• A boy who makes the wrong decision to go through a graveyard ends up getting possessed by a cult

• We chose to use a graveyard and the idea of an apocalypse to enhance the enigma codes in a horror film. This will be done through the use of low-key lighting in the graveyard and through the music and sound to create suspense.

Narrative

• A young boy (very popular in his community) is making his way home on a cold winter night. He is tired and decides that he is going to take the shortcut home. This happens to be through the graveyard in which he is kidnapped by a satanic cult of people who plan on starting the apocalypse. After they kidnap him, they possess him and use him to possess the rest of the community who end up becoming victims of the cults plans to end the world and rule a new one.

Inspiration For Our Film• Night Of The Living Dead was a big

inspiration to our film. This is mostly because of the setting and the atmosphere. It has a very much similar narrative to our film. It is an obvious horror, which is what we aimed to create and were able to bounce and alternate our ideas from this film.

• Carrie was also a big inspiration to our film. This is because of the characters. There was many popular characters and as a group collectively we thought if we have a popular character get captured maybe it will affect the community more.

Inspiration For Our Film

• Carrie was also a big inspiration to our film. This is because of the characters. There was many popular characters and as a group collectively we thought if we have a popular character get captured maybe it will affect the community more.

Dream Cast Ideas• 1. David Dorfman – Jack, the young boy in the graveyardDavid Dorfman made his film debut as William H. Macy's son in the acclaimed drama Panic, and then played Gwyneth Paltrow's son in Bounce. Dorfman also appeared the independent film 100 Mile Rule. He also played Aidan in The Ring a remake of the Japaneese film Ringu, he was outstanding in this role for such a young actor. He repeated the role in the sequel The Ring 2 three years later in 2005, in between in 2003 he appeared in the remake of the cult classic horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. • 2. Tobin Bell – One of the 4 cult members , Tobin Bell list because he plays Jigsaw (John Kramer) in the Saw series, giving life a most recent horror icon. He is also a character who looks scary and will frighten young jack in the graveyard. He’s also a great actor. • 3. Jamie Lee Curtis – The only female cult member, also she is the leader. This shows this cult isn’t any

ordinary cult by subverting gender stereotypes that men are in positions of powqerJanet is famous for being murdered in the shower in Psycho, but Jamie starred in Halloween and gave us the first survivor girl. She also played the lead in Terror Train and Prom Night.

Dream Cast Ideas• 4. Boris Karlhoff – One of the 4 cult members Although he’s best known for playing Frankenstein’s Monster in James Whale’s Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein, he actually starred in quite a few Universal monster films in very convincing and great roles. Of course, this includes The Mummy. Karloff often worked with fellow horror icon Bela Lugosi.

• 5. Christopher Lee – The final cult member Sir Christopher Lee is an English actor, singer and author. Lee initially portrayed villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a string of popular Hammer Horror films. He is the tallest of the characters which will inflict fear into the soul of the boy in the graveyard.

Location idea• Victoria park• Mabley green • Mare street graveyard• London Fields park• The chosen location is Mare street graveyard. Reason for this chosen locations

is because it links with our genre which is horror also links with the logo, this would allow my audience to understand the opening, in case you ask how? The logo you can clearly see colors of which are very dark and dull which links with horror. The background shows a full moon, branches as well as church crosses and a dirty arm coming out the ground this looks scary to me…

Technology

• Camera • Light stands – The graveyard is rather dark and we must

see all of characters and their facial expressions • Microphone • External hard drives• Dolly

Music & Sound• We would like to have a very uncomfortable score. This is to put the

viewer in a position where they become frightened, however the comfortability which they are feeling will catch their attention and make them want to watch more. We would like to have the sound of the satanic cult worshipping something or humming to allow the audience to obtain some knowledge of what is happening in the sequence. Also, this will emphasise the enigma codes in the horror sequence. Sound is very necessary in our opening sequence and it could either make or break it, the wrong score could easily confuse others into what genre our film is.