Assignment 17

Subgenre • The possession sub genre is about

people who's body have been taken over by a spirit. These spirits control the body of the person and act in an unruly manor.

• Examples of Possession films: The exorcist, the last exorcism, the last exorcism of emily rose, the devil inside, the possession.

What did you learn from researching your sub

genre• The location of possession films are normally set in a house for example the polergyst and the exorcism are based around the house of where the family live in. These isolated locations show that there is no escape.

• Usually we see the presence of a priest or someone who can talk to the dead who are called mediums or clairvoyants. These people try and talk to the spirit and get rid of them.

Conventions of our subgenre • Priests being present helping the people that

have been possessed.

• Entrapment of people in a house or another locations.

• Use of ouija boards

• family torture as they are affecting everyone that cares about the person who has been possessed.

• Strange powers like turning your head and fully rotating it.

What will be your character types or social

groups.

• In our opening title sequence it will be symbolic and we will not be showing the faces of each character just the hands moving around a ouija board.

• We have done this as it creates a narrative enigma as to what the characters are going to be like.

Plot/Storyline• Ouija board lit up by low key lighting by candles.

• 3 people sitting around the ouija board with their hands on the centre.

• The storey focuses on the 3 people doing the ouija board and flashes forward in time to show their reactions further on in the movie to create narrative enigmas.

• Character 1 ( liam ) will be shown to kill people and mostly be based around killing others because he is possessed and based around blood.

• Character 2 ( Jordan) will be focused around a spirit getting inside him and hurting himself from the outside and being very concerned. This will be shown through body bruises.

• Character 3 ( Vinnie ) will be shown to self harm himself and not being in control of his body at all.

• The video is non linear so we will constantly be switching back to shots to the ouija board making it symbolic going backwards and forwards in time.

Will you enforce or challenge conventions

• we will enforce conventions for example the use of the family home as a setting as it represents that they are trapped.

• The use of a ouija board

• A misty/smokey room

• the use of a cross in the background to represent the spirits.

We will create an enigma by

• We will create narrative enigmas by not revealing the identity of each character.

• Not revealing why their are flashback as it will make the reader think why have people previously acted like this.

• We will create a narrative enigma by the word that is spelled out on the ouija board.

How will you represent the characters

• There will be outlines of their heads and we can tell that there will be three boys around the ouija board.

• As we are hiding their identity they will be represented in a mysterious way.

• This will create enigmas for the audience as they will want to find out what they look like and what type of person they are therefore they will be more hooked for the rest of the movie.

Our first inspirational film is?

• Our first inspirational film is exorcist.

• This is because it was the first and most original possession film therefore it created most of the conventions.

• The conventions that are used are the entrapment of the girl in the bed

• The priest coming and trying to get the spirit out of the women.

Our second inspirational film is?

• Our second inspirational is ouija.

• This is because they have the use of a ouija board which is an ancient way of reaching out to spirits and is used in this film.

• We decided to use this as it is extremely scary and there are ancient myths of them actually working and spirits coming alive.

Our third inspirational film is?

• Our third inspirational film is The Devil Inside.

• This is because it they challenge the conventions of the nuns trying to get rid of the spirit but the spirit possesses the nuns.

• The film is extremely spooky and makes people feel scared as there is no protection as the enforcers have already been taken over by the antagonist.

USP

• Our unique selling point is the ouja board as there are many ancient horror storey based around them and a great amount of people have tried them in England and can relate to a lot of young people wanting to try it and a lot of older people looking back on when they have done it in their youth years.