Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Message to Moderator

Dear Moderator.

This blog belongs to Alex Costello and I worked with Jamie Robinson,  Ben Ervine and Ian Chapman to create an opening sequence to a horror film lasting approx. two minutes including titles. You van use the ages I have created at the top of my blog to navigate my research, planning, construction and evaluation. I used wix to present my evaluation and this is best viewed using CHROME internet browser. I hope you enjoy my work,

Regards, Alex Costello.


Question 6


Question 6 of our evaluation questions.

Question 5


Question 5 of our evaluation questions.

Question 4


Question 4 of our evaluation questions.

Question 3


Question 3 of our evaluation questions.

Question 2


Question 2 of our evaluation questions.

Question 1


Question 1 of our evaluation questions.

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Thursday, 21 March 2013

Friday, 1 March 2013

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Monday, 4 February 2013

Audience Questionnaire


This is a questionnaire to ask oir audience about our movie to help us.

9 Frame Analysis


This is my nine fram analysis of the horror film Shaun of the Dead.

Thursday, 31 January 2013

Decomposition of titles


This is a presentation on Prezi of the decomposition of titles from the movie "Cabin Fever 2"

Friday, 25 January 2013

Audience Research


This document talks about the most popular slasher horror films in history and how much the films made overall. It also has a profile of a typical horror fan and their interests.

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Institution Research


This is the research we have produced for our chosen category which is horror movies.

Zombieland Analysis


This document is a written analysis of the opening sequence of the film "Zombieland' which is a horror.  It also includes screen shots of parts of the clip.

Thursday, 17 January 2013

History of Horror

History of horror from ianjamiealexben

From this, i have learned all about the history about the horror genre. I researched different facts and information about the common genre conventions and the history of horror movies.

My Group

Ian Chapman
Ben Ervine
Jamie Robinson

Common Horror Conventions


This is a mind map we created to show the common conventions of a horror movie. the same kind of things are used in most horror movies, just with different variations. There are some that seem quite interesting to us and we could use them for our opening, such as a graveyard and haunted house.

Monday, 14 January 2013