Possible Distributors

Unfortunately it's highly unlikely that my film will be distributed by any of these as they're for mostly highly budgeted films where as my film will be a low budget or virtually no budget, and there won't be any big movie sta
Donkey Punch
Is a low budget film which we can look to as an example for the distributing company Optimum Releasing, and even though it didn't make as much of a profit as most slasher films we can still use it as an example to compare with as our film will be a low budget slasher and aimed at indie distribution companies.
Optimum Releasing

The Slasher Audience and the Narrative Structure

The Audience:
Different genres attract different audiences, different films will attract different ages, races and cultures, and each genre's audience will hold expectations for their genre.
Slasher movies are a sub-genre of horror. The audiences will expect generally high levels of violence involoving a lot of blood, and most genres have the binary opposites with the protagonists being a group of teenagers and the atagonists the killer. Friday the 13th (Danny Steinmann, 1985) is a good example of this and in showing the narrative structure of the contemporary slasher film, with the killer with a mysterious identity who attacks the group of young teenagers.
The first box office success was John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978). The film cost only three-hundred-thousand dollars to create and made roughly fifty-million dollars, and films like this persuaded Hollywood to continue creating them which is where the slasher genre was made.

Narrative Structure:
Slasher films rarely stray from Tordov’s structure of narrative, and a classic film that demonstrates this is John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978). For example this structure starts with a state of equilibrium, where the couple of teenagers are being as a normal teenaged couple. There is then a disruption to the equilibrium, where a killer begins to stalk them. The disruption is then noticed when the girl is murdered. The attempt to get things back to normal is when the killer is sent to a mental asylum, but then breaks out. Equilibrium is then reinstated when either the ‘killer’ is killed or the final teenager is killed.

THE FALSE SCARE

Slasher movies are fun because so much of their energy involves lulling their audiences into a sense of calm and safety and then unleashing a jolt or a stinger. These jolts then alternate with the murders, and consequently the audience is kept on edge, leaping out of its seat and not knowing which comes next, a false scare or a death.

One of the most common jolts is the cat jump. This involves a hissing or meowing cat leaping suddenly into frame and startling a character, usually the final girl. Halloween II (1981) and Halloween V (1989) both feature this.

Another popular false scare involves the backwards walk or the reverse jump. In real life, you may not commonly see people going in reverse, but it's a common mode of transit in the slasher film. Characters creep backwards and then bump into somebody and scream. Usually, they're just backing into a friend and everybody laughs.

The last false scare is the practical joke, in which a not-very-nice friend pulls a nasty pran on a final girl, but it's all right in the end. Since many 1980s films chart the gulf between fact and fiction, real and fantasy, the practical joke is a crucial situation. In some cases the practical joke is also the precipitating transgression.

Source:

Horror Films of The 1980s

Book By John Kenneth Muir

SlasherEG6: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Orig

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 
(Tobe Hooper, 1974)

PRODUCED BY: Vortex

DISTRIBUTED BY:  Bryanston Distributing (USA)

BUDGET: $83.5k

BOX OFFICE: $ 30.8m

IMDb RATING: 7.5

TITLES:

This film starts by giving the audience a sense of realism, even though it might not be fully correct it still leads the audience to believe that this film is based on true accounts, this sense of realism is used in quite a few slasher openings as it adds to the scare factor in making the audience believe that the films based on a true story making them think that it could happen to anyone.

It then goes on to reveal the date giving away exposition which is also a common convention in most slasher films.

SOUND + MUSIC:
This film is more about what you can hear at the start rather than what you see as it uses these sounds very well and in a way using narrative enigma as we can hear stuff going on but we don't know what it is leaving the audience in a sense of mystery, and this is using Barthe's theory on narrative enigma well.

NARRATIVE ENIGMA V EXPOSITION:  

Then when this body is shown there's a radio in the background playing giving away the exposition to what has happened which is also used in most slasher films.
   

However this film goes against todorov's 5 part theory as it starts with a disequilibrium instead of a state of equilibrium where it's normal and hasn't been disrupted but here it's been disrupted from the start, which also acts as a genre signifier giving away the thought that this films a slasher or horror.

 

Also the theory of the final girl from Carole Clover is used in this film as the girl is brunette and seems to be the sensible one in the group, and there's also the 'other' in the group with his disability in the wheelchair making him the outsider.

 

Vodcast on the editing in a sample stalk/slash scene

I chose to do the well known stalk scene in the original Halloween by John Carpenter as it's a good example to analyse the stalk scene as it demonstrates key skills when making a stalk scene.

My Ident: Paper Plane Productions

This was my final ident designed, i designed the animation on Coral Draw and then exported it and imported it to Final Cut Pro to finish it off and put it together as a final ident which i can use when making my films.

Vodcast On The Halloween Franchise.

In this vodcast we analysed the Halloween franchise and looked at each movie whiles distinguishing common conventions used in them and other aspects which we explain in our vodcast.