Sound Recording

As part of the post production process we had to consider our use of sound to build tension and suspense, which are key conventions within the slasher genre, in order to engage the audience. 

Characters - Costume

Costume is an integral part of any film as it provides a reflection of a character's personality or intentions; therefore we had to carefully consider the costume of the characters in order to portray to the characters, as we as filmmakers perceive them, with clarity to the audience.

Character Profiles & Screen Testing

Creating character profiles enable us, as film makers, to ensure fictional characters are as realistic as possible to form the correct impression upon the audience and for continuity within the action. 

Topic Research: Prostitution

In order to gain an understanding of our female character, 'The Temptress' - who is a prostitute that kills her male clients- and to create greater depth to our character profile we had research into the typical representation of female prostitutes within films. Slasher films tend to explore human nature and how we react to murder, violence and sex with the antagonist- the Temptress within our opening- challenging and pushing the boundaries of human behaviour. Therefore this research will help also so that we can successfully explore the subversion of the genre of slasher to have a promiscuous female killer.

Survey Analysis

In order to gain an understanding of our audience preferences and what would be most effective for a slasher film, we decided to create a questionnaire and advertised it on social media; we received 32 responses over the course of a week.

Summary of Research

As a group we have decided that our film opening would be of the genre horror, as throughout the research stage we had been looking at Horrors for our individual deconstructions of film openings and we have established the many codes and conventions of horror - specifically Slashers.