Stock Characters in Horror Movies

I am able to define the various stock characters in horror movies and have listed examples of characters to go with the explanation.

     

Planning for Production

Something beyond abnormal is happening in the town of Archway. Hours before new year’s, a series of unusual events take place amongst Unique and her friends Blade, Norman, Chuck and Ash as they end up caught in Burghley High. Newcomer into the clique, Blessing, has had no problems adjusting into the neighbourhood, unsure that her friends are yet to know that she is a regular to the school.

Everyday school equipment has it’s purpose of use as a weapon that everyone involved interacts with at some crucial point. 

#Considerable title names

1. Hanging On
2. Hanging Out
3. New Tears
4. Life Must Go On

#CHARACTERS

• Trent Myers
• Norman Bates
• Hitch
• Ashley Williams 
• Unique McNeil 
• Blessing Baneful

• Trent Myers aka Blade is the weed/ alcohol addict.
• Norman Bates is the weird guy and is the geeky character of the group.
• Hitch aka joker/ candyman is the popular guy that loves the topic situated around females.
• Ashely Williams plays more or less of the role as a female version of Hitch.
• Unique McNeil is potentially the final girl that looks into investigating the unusual events amongst her friends. And is the protagonist.
• Blessing Baneful aka Supreme is the antagonist and is in disguise as the killer in tis trailer. She has documents that prove she is a deceiver as there is evidence that she has used other names such as: Joy, Faith, Grace and Hope.    

#ICON AND SETTINGS

Mask, nails, pins, gloves, knife, hammer ....... TEDDY BEAR (demonic) !!!

“you can trust me, I won’t fail you” "if only this could last forever, i dont want to leave "“waheyy!” “young wild and free” “live and love life”

Common room (set the scene and meeting point/ ending point), Playground (everyone splits up), spots hall (lonely because of the quietness as the room echo’s), dance studio (gradual and unexpected sounds), Astroturf (sports equipment), science lab (health and safety) and basement (pitch black)

Film's Cool - Session Two

The second session of 'Film's Cool' took place in our media room, where again I was introduced to new faces. We had the opportunity to have Jesse O'Mahoney come in and help us develop our ideas. The eastenders writer listened intensively while I shared my idea with him and gave me and my group feedback. He said he thought the idea was great but questioned me behind the thoughts of my central character. We as a group went into discussing the personality type, profession and life problem/s of this chief character. And this individual character's 'want's and need's', as this all becomes important.

As my broad idea is situated on the value of one's life, Jesse made me consider who matters to this person and why they might matter. As it could possibly be that this character discovers the love of life the very moment they discover they're dead.

We then did our Q&A session with Jesse O'Mahoney towards the ending of the session.

The one thing I captured that Jesse mentioned was that we should aim to write our storyline in one sentence, just a couple of words that will sum up everything.