Convention Influences.

Editing:

Psycho shower scene. 

Black Nightmare violent scene

For influence we looked at the film that introduced this fast paced editing to the violent scene into the slasher genre which was Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), where in the shower scene to make the killing look realistic instead of doing long takes they chopped up their long takes into much shorter takes where it would cut away from the actual stabbing, because obviously they aren't physically able to stab the actor, but because it's done at a fast pace it leads the audience into believing the killing has taken place. So in our film, Black Nightmare, we looked to incorporate this editing technique for the scene where our killer attacks our scream queen with a bat, however instead of doing the fast paced editing completely we did short takes but instead of it being fast we slowed down the timing of the takes, and with this we tried to make it so that it would make the audience feel at unease for longer rather than just having the scene go at a normal pace and for it to be over quickly.

Black Nightmare's killer's POV

And we also look at John Carpenter's Halloween's (1978) for the opening where there's a very long take of a point of view shot which is from the killer's point of view, because we thought this had a good effect making the audience feel how the killer would feel in a way and even sympathising for the killer, however we thought that it was too long this take of the point of view shot so when we made out point of view shots from the killer we had them much shorter, this was to add to the flow of the scene and to make sure we didn't loose our audience's interesting in the opening by just doing a long take.  

Sound:

Black Nightmare's Soundtrack.

Firstly we looked at past slasher films for influence and what stood out to us was John Carpenter's Halloween's (1978) opening soundtrack, because whiles the titles in the opening are being shown there's a non-diegetic soundtrack in the background that's slowing building up tension, by starting with it's long drawn our notes to these notes slowing building up tempo and getting louder to the end, and in away these notes are plating with the audience's heartbeat and playing with their emotions so we wanted to try and produce a similar effect with our soundtrack in our opening titles sequence.

Mise-en-scene:

Laurie Strode

For our mise-en-scene influence we looked at John Carpenter's Halloween's (1978) again for the final girl character, because we wanted to signify our final girl like they did in Halloween with Laurie Strode , the final girl, carrying school books and unlike her friends which represents the scream queens who have boyfriends she doesn't have one and is more bothered about her education. So we tried to do this by having our final girl carry text books and whiles her friend , the scream queen, goes inside her house with her boyfriend. 

And with the killer's mask a good example that we looked at for influence is in Friday The 13th   ( Sean S. Cunningham, 1980 ) with the killer Jason Voorhees's mask. So we choose to use a black mask covering the whole of the killers face like killer Jason Voorhees's mask.

Casey

And with our scream queen we also stuck with the common conventions with her being blonde, not academic and sexually active,  we showed her sexual activity by having her go to the bedroom with her boyfriend and included an ellipsis after representing the sexual activity that took place. Also to show her not being intellectual our final girl walked off carrying books whereas she just walked in the house with her boyfriend. And a good influence we looked at was Casey in Scream ( Wes Craven, 1996 ) as she was blonde and had a boyfriend, but also she was vulnerable and useless in fighting the killer.