Nathan

This is a photograph of our character Nathan, he is dressed in all black with a mask that creates quite a scary look, we took this when it was snowing to give the image a darker, colder and more weary approach, Nathan is also holding a gold club, obviously the club is not intended to be used in its traditional way and the way he is holding out wards from his body suggests he is going to use it for damage and aggression, his body stance also helps add to this effect as he is standing facing the camera with his shoulders broadened  

3 existing film magazines

These are some examples of some film magazines available for people to buy, they all share similar conventions with a big, obvious masthead at the top of page, spanning across the top of the entire page, the mastheads are also usually in a different colour to the rest of the magazine, the 'Entertainment' magazine that features 'The Hunger Games' on the front cover has its masthead in yellow, this makes it a lot more noticeable on the page as it also has various things over it including the main picture which also a popular magazine convention, mainly used with established brands as they don't always need to have there mastheads completely on show.

Slash tag related to theorists

Image of the Mask/Knife/Phone

This is the picture of the mask that Nathan will be wearing when he goes on a mental rampage. The blood in this picture is obviously not blood but it is just an idea for a magazine cover. The image shows the mask, a phone and a knife, all of which have blood on them. This gives us a mix of the slasher side, horror side and the fact it is based around social media. This picture is taken on an iPad so the picture quality isn't as good as it could be. If we were going to use this image on a magazine front cover, we would make he blood much more realistic, have the whole knife in the picture and the phone screen will be visible and it will show our film logo so it looks good on magazine front covers. The background will also be different. We will change it to grass rather than wood and the lighting will be much darker. This will make it fit the horror genre much better.

Dom character profile

This is Luke Hemming. He will be playing Dom in our film trialer. Dom is one of Scotts friends which makes him a sheep. He follows Scott around everywhere and joins in with all the bullying Scott does. This is another character Nathan will go after in the film. Dom will have a car in the trailer. This is something that we need to add to the prop list as it is used as a weapon in the film.

Film Summary

Film Summary:

 Our film is called SlashTag, The slash section of the name is derived from the fact it’s a slasher horror and it rhymes with hash. Hash tag relates to social media, this has connection to the social media side to our films title, this is due to how our films plot revolves around the social networking aspect of our film

We called our film this because our film is about a boy called Nathan who becomes a psychopath due to intense bullyimg from his class mates, this eventually leads to him being tipped over the edge resulting in him becoming a slasher murderer. His methods of tormentation is using social networking sites to torment his victims, playing with their minds as he plots to kill them.

The film starts of with a 16-year-old boy called Nathan. Nathan is severely bullied by a 17-year-old boy called Scott and his gang of mates. Nathan hates school and finds it hard to get himself up and into school every day. One night after another day of being beaten up and scarred mentally by his classs mates he discovers social media and its power to watch, stalk and manipulate people.

This is when he realizes he can set up a fake account and torment his bullies online without them knowing who it is. Nathan starts to be very active on social media and starts to take the online harassing very far, by using extreme techniques and manipulation to get to the bullies, Nathan then starts to threaten his bullies with murder.

Nathan steals a white mask from the drama department at school, he uses this as a disguise to take the harassment of his school bullies even further. (This is the stage the audience will stop feeling sorry for Nathan and being scared of him). Nathan then goes after each bully one by one murdering one at a time, using various techniques of torture and death to kill them. Nathan violently kills each bully until he gets to Scott. The main person who has been making his life an utter misery. He makes Scott suffer more than any of the others; this is why he left him until last.

Nathan then realises what he has done and takes his own life. The worry of the consequences of what he had just done was too much for him as he couldn’t cope with the guilt, pressure and his own self after what he had done.

Unfriended trailer review

the trailer above is for the new horror film called unfriended. At the start of the trailer, a girl shoots herself because someone has posted something about her online that she was very ebarressed about. An annonamous account then haunts the people who they think poated the video. The story of unfriended is very similar to the story our film trailer we are creating, both films are a new genre of horror, social media/online horror. We can take a lot from the unfriended trailer as we are doing something very similar. this trailer can help us massively towards our end product.

Slash tag meaning

SlashTag meaing (Urban Dictionary)

slash tag (noun) - A type of hash tag that implies a threat.

slash tagging (verb) - The act of applying a hash tag

Examples 

Billy ended his Facebook rant about who ever stole his iPod by slash tagging #iwillcutyou

Molly was particularly pleased with her party outfit and posted her picture on Facebook with the slash tag #watchoutbitches

Pulp fiction example: 

Top 10 deaths in Final destination - Inspiration for deaths for our trailer

Existing horror films similar to ours

1. Carrie - 

1. In this chilling adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel, withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother (Piper Laurie) at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross (William Katt), Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn.

2. Night School - 

1. A Boston police detective (Leonard Mann) blames ritual beheadings on a professor (Drew Snyder) with a live-in assistant (Rachel Ward).

3. Prom Night -

1. This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids have kept their involvement a secret, but when they start being murdered, one by one, it's clear that someone knows the truth. Also coping with the past are members of the dead girl's family, most notably her prom-queen sister, Kim Hammond (Jamie Lee Curtis).

   
   

   
   

Nathans Mask

Story board

This is my Story Board for my film trailer. It has all the duration times of each shot so it gives us a rough idea of how long the trailer is going to be. I've used existing film trailers to help me with mine, i've used trailers such as 'Cabin in the Woods', 'Nightmare On Elmstreet', 'Saw' and 'Scream' as I think these horror trailers are different and help me use ideas from all of them, the films themselves are all very different and are interesting to look at. The music also helps to develop each scene as it sets the mood, having happier music at the beginning at the trailer seems to be a recurring thing in Horror film trailers, it lets the audience await something bad to happen as it is obvious the film isnt going to be a happy one, after the production company comes up more sinister music will start to play to let the audience know its about to turn bad.