Monday, 20 March 2017
P: Make up FX
Behind the scenes footage, touvhing up on make up.
We decided to do a pale face, with dark eyes and bruises around her mouth as this makeup is very conventional in Japanese Horror.
The dark eyes can create intimidation, dark aura and connotation of evil and lack of sleep or drugged For our actor we made her under eyes dark and added a veiny effect with makeup to make her look like she has something building up inside her or shes having an reaction to something. The pale skin can connote a soulless body, a corpse.
Sunday, 19 March 2017
R&P: Genre quotes that influenced my decision making of Sakkaku
John Hartley- “the same text
can belong to different genres in different countries or times”
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Connotes that text often
exhibits convention of more than one genre
- - Psychological horror: characters inner struggle
- - Scientific horror: patient room, experiment, doctor
Elements of
the psychological horror genre may be seen differently and status as a
scientific horror in other countries, for example, in a lot of psychological
and scientific genres, often the focus is on the character's inner struggle
dealing with technological forces, health etc. but in another country, it may
be only seen to fit the scientific genre as there is a lot of elements of
‘technological forces’, or alien invasion, experiments etc. ignoring the
‘character’s inner struggle’ or ‘health’ which supports the psychological genre
key focus is the abnormal psychological states of its characters. It may fit
the psychological genre in our society but may not universally.
Steve Neale- “genres are instances of repetition and
differences”
“difference is absolutely essential to the
economy of genre”
Repetition allows the audience to identify the conventions and stop
and think, this is an ‘x genre’. You could also repeat genres but use them in a
different way. However, he also states ‘difference is absolutely essential to
the economy of genre’ which I also agree with having the same old story line or
convention can bore the audience as they will feel they have seen this type of
film before, or the ending is so predictable why to bother watching. But
without having this repetition or similarities it would not meet the audience
expectations of a horror film as seeing the key conventions come up in the
horror genre may classify to the audience that this is what a horror film
should be like at this is what makes a good horror film.
Roland
Barthes- Hermeneutic code- refers to any element of the narrative that is not
fully explained and becomes a mystery to the view/reader.
The purpose of this to typically
keep the audience guessing, arresting the enigma code until the final scene,
when all is revealed and all the loose ends are tied off and closure is
achieved. This is also played out in my short film as the protagonist and
antagonist is face to face, and the protagonist ends up stabbing the antagonist
however, this is where the plot twist is revealed when the antagonist smiles
sinisterly to the protagonist looking down at the protagonist body as the
antagonist is still held up, drawing the protagonists attention to look at his
body. It ends up that the protagonist stabbed himself and the antagonist
disappears connoting all this time the protagonist was being played tricks on
by his mind as it was all an illusion, supporting the tagline “there is no end
to an illusion… except you” and the title of the film ‘Sakkaku’ meaning
illusion in Japanese. This is the audience closure after all the events that
they had to add up.
John McNaughton- “horror
films traditionally incorporate fantasy, which gives you a space to accept that
this is not real, and you are protected”
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Psychological- realistic- enigma code
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Scientific- how it is real only to an extent
–relief
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