Our film idea
Title: Hurting
Genre: Horror
Primary Audience: Ages 16-24 M/F
Secondary Audience: Fans of the horror/psychological horror genre
Our film idea and opening sequence use and challenge conventions of the horror genre such as typical characters, titles, setting and narrative.
Narrative
Our narrative borrows several features from existing horror films. The theme of someone being possessed has been used in many existing films which we took some of our ideas from – for example, The Exorcism of Emily Rose and The Rite.
The narrative is conventional as we followed Todorov’s Narrative Theory, making sure that it had an equilibrium, disruption and resolution. At first Violet is safe and sound at home, but soon she hears some strange noises. As she goes to investigate, things get worse and she tries to contact her family for help. Later she would fight and finally overcome her disturbed mentality.
Some of our influences:
- Insidious
We thought Insidious had a similar theme to our film, also sharing the Psychological Horror subgenre. Another element we looked at in Insidious was the house setting which is quite similar to ours.
- Paranormal Activity
We took a lot of inspiration from Paranormal Activity for our setting. The dark, low-key lighting style and low budget filming was also quite relevant to our film.
- Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is a different style to our film as it relies a lot on special effects and is quite gory, however we took inspiration from its title sequence as we thought the titles had a nice look and were presented in a visual way.
Silent Hill: Revelation title sequence
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