cover work - Tues 17.03.09

'Halloween:UK'

The task in hand is to remake the "grandaddy" of all horror movies "Haloween". We have been asked to repeat some elements from the original movie and to replace some elements with our own unique idea's. Below we have discussed what has changed and what remains the same, stating the reason why we chose this decision.

Iconography refers to the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated and seen within certain movie genre's. As all horror films consist of iconography that is familiar to the viewers, we have decided to keep most of iconographic symbols and images that have been used in Halloween. This then makes it easier for us to decide who we will market and produce this movie for and will be less time consuming for us as we wouldn't need to take time out to generate questionnaires and then go hand them out to the public to find out what they would prefer.

We will keep such iconography such as knives, masks, group of teenagers and the pumpkin that is used at the opening of the original movie. I will keep knives as the main prop as this the main weapon that is normally associated with horror movies. The audience movie effect will also remain the same, that of Visceral. The begging of the movie will be kept the same, chants will carry on playing in the background as spells and chants are normally associated with halloween and in this case reflects the title of the movie.

As a group we have decided to change the setting of the movie as horror films are normally set in houses. To create a sense of orginallity we have decided to move the setting from a suburban midwestern town of Haddonfield, Illinois to a large mansion that has a graveyard in the back. This will be used to scare the audience as graveyards are normally associated with halloween and are visited by a number of youngsters in society today to get some sort of adrenaline rush and excitement. By adding a graveyard will allow us to use it as a scare tactic and allow us to create scenes where the audience are unaware of what is going to happen. Music and sound such as heavy breathing, shrieks and the upbeat sounds of a heartbeat will be used to create suspense and add to the scare tactic.

As in society today there are a number of issues that have arised that are to do with the way women have been represented and exploited and how men are shown to be more superior then women. We have decided to change the order of who dies when, this time round the females will be seen as the survivors rather than the males, this will then go against the stereotype. As the issue of anorexia is also on the rise, we have decided to use an obese character to show equality and to show the audience that you don't have to be anorexic or slim to be successful. This may then help the issue of anorexia reflecting the zeitgeist.