Horror Makeup Research

In this video the girl gives usher ideas on how to create easy scary costumes that can be done at home. This is very useful as it gives us an idea of what costume we could make for our abnormal Antagonist in our Film. We wanted to pursue a costume similar to the Girl in the Ring. She Is a young girl who was thrown in a Well and rotted away in The well she has out grown black hair that covers her face and she wears long white dress and her skin is made to look very pale and dirty because she never saw sunlight and starved in the well. This look is also quite easy to achieve, Since Luiza is going to be the one being the Antagonist in our Film, she has long dark hair which I can brush over my face and i can tease it to make it look untidy and tangled to get a badly groomed look, this conforms to the female antagonist look. We will also make use of white eye shadow and white baby powder to cover her face to make her skin seem pale making me look dead and Ghost like. We also intend on using a Night dress which is long and white to recreate a dress similar to The ring.

The Antagonist

                         
Most horror movies have their antagonist/supernatural villains as females as it usually goes with the story line of the film. Why do most people choose females over males for the villain? you might ask as women are traditionally  seen as more vulnerable and inferior to men this is usually represented in action movies. However in horror movies women are the best pick for being portrayed as the villain as we usually associate girls to be kind and non aggressive so when they are portrayed as evil ,murdering antagonists in the film it subverts from their stereotype. Which has more of an effect on the audience as they are shocked as to how a "girl" could scare even the toughest of men which emphasises the danger in the movie. Significantly, female villains are often portrayed as having a purpose far beyond senseless violence. Often, they are out for revenge, products of past male violence themselves. Therefore, an examination might well present us with an interesting portrayal of the Return of the Repressed and female victimisation. Female villains are represented in this way like in for example in "women in black" "The ring" "The grudge" "Carrie" and many  more.

INHABITANT - Horror Opening Scene G321

Inhabitant Storyboard Animatic

Actor Interview ( Luiza Paulielo - "Lisa")

Location analysis

This is the area we have intended to film in, it is a modest 2 floor house with a attic which will be a key location for our film. We think this is a suitable location as the opening of our story is based in a household and in a creepy attic with in the household. This location is also convenient for us as it is local as it is also Eleanor's Grandma's which requires no cost which is good for us due to our low budget. This location is also effective in creating a scary atmosphere as  typical modern horror movies are based in households at night for example"Paranormal activity,The conjuring". This way the story seems more personal to our audience as it suggests supernatural events like these can occur anywhere even in your home. 

Movie Title Research

These are the results of our questionnaire researching which movie title best appeals to our audience. As we can see the majority chose Inhabitant as the  most appealing title where as the other film title ideas got less than 50% of votes and one of our film title idea "Chained" didn't even get any! which means we definitely wont consider using that as our film title.