From our genre research we found that most slasher films are set in 3 general locations, Campus, The Wilderness, or Urban and that most of the action takes place in these confines. We decided on an urban setting for the flashbacks of the alleyway to give exposition of the girls class along with a stereotypical haunted house for the action to take part in, particularly favored by Hammer in the sixties. For the internal footage we used a coal cellar similar to the torture chambers used in Hostel.
Mise-en-scene
We used candles to set the atmosphere in the cellar and give the feel of possibly rituals, like the murderer has done this before. We decided to use candles as an inter-textual reference to Halloween(1978) and a House Of Wax. We first used sellotape on the victim to gag her then when watching the footage back we decided it would look better with black tape over her mouth so we decided to re-shoot because this didn't give the effect we were looking for. We got this ideal from other slashers such as The Signal and the thriller Lethal Weapon 2. We considered using a material gag but decided overall the black tape would give a better effect. In our re-shoot we also tied the victims feet together to give a more realistic effect when she was struggling. We uses flashbacks to create verisimilitude which we hoped would give the audience as sense of a docu-drama feel which may help attract some ABC1 viewers. We got this idea from the opening scenes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper 1974) which used this effect to signify a police investigation and create a sense of realism.
Costume
We dressed the victim in tight, quite revealing clothing and a dress to connote she is a feminine girl and provides anchorage for our view she is sexually active, as this is believed to be the theory behind why the sexually active girls always die first in horror films as pre-marital sex is seen as a sin.
We dressed the murderer in heavy navy trousers and a heavy navy coat which gave a similar effect to the boiler suit Michael Myers wears in the 1978 Halloween. He wore heavy walking boots to sound menacing and amplify the
sound as he was walking down the stairs.
We dressed the victim in tight, quite revealing clothing and a dress to connote she is a feminine girl and provides anchorage for our view she is sexually active, as this is believed to be the theory behind why the sexually active girls always die first in horror films as pre-marital sex is seen as a sin.
We dressed the murderer in heavy navy trousers and a heavy navy coat which gave a similar effect to the boiler suit Michael Myers wears in the 1978 Halloween. He wore heavy walking boots to sound menacing and amplify the
sound as he was walking down the stairs.Props
We used the candles to create atmosphere and the feel of an occult ritual. We chose the knife the murderer carried because it is similar to the one used in psycho and looked effective when silhouetted against the candles, another reason why we used these. We decided on black tape instead of a gag to look menacing.
We used the candles to create atmosphere and the feel of an occult ritual. We chose the knife the murderer carried because it is similar to the one used in psycho and looked effective when silhouetted against the candles, another reason why we used these. We decided on black tape instead of a gag to look menacing.
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