Story board

Title screen

This is the title for our film it is based on the title for the film last house on the left. We incorporated the black and red theme as briliant ansthetic red colour skheme signifies a dangerous prospect to the film and allows the audiance to understand that it is a violent take on the childrens story with a clever blood splatter.

Richard dyers star theory

Richard Dyer's Star Theory

Dyer has written extensively about the role of stars in film, television and music. Irrespective of the medium, stars have some key features in common. A star is an image, not a real person, that is constructed (as any other aspect of fiction is) out of a range of materials (e.g. advertising, magazines, etc.) as well as films and music. Stars are commodities produced and consumed on the strength of their meanings.

Stars descend upon a range of subsidiary media - magazines, television, radio, and the internet - in order to construct an image for themselves which can be marketed to their target audiences. The star image is made up of a range of meanings which are attractive to the target audiences.

Fundamentally, the star image is incoherent, that is both incomplete and 'open'. Dyer says that this is because it is based upon two key paradoxes. These two paradoxes are as follows:-

1. The star must be simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary for the consumer. The star has to be someone that people can aspire to be like
2. The star must be simultaneously present and absent for the consumer

The incoherence of the star image ensures that audiences continually strive to 'complete' or to 'make sense' of the image. This is achieved by continuous consumption of the star through his/her products. In the music industry, performance seems to promise the completion of the image, but it is always ultimately unsatisfying. This means their fans will get away determined to continue consuming the star in order to carry on attempting to complete their image. 

Production log

Hansel and Gretel

1.    Panning shot of train (extreme long shot)

2.    Close up of children

3.    P.O.V shot of witch looking at children

4.    Close up of hands washing up pans upwards to mothers face

5.    Medium shot of Father putting tools down

6.    Extreme close up of tools focusing on hammer

7.    Pans to close up of Dad’s face

8.    Medium shot of wife looking out of the window

9.    Two shot of the wife and dad in the background

10. Medium shot of dad smoking a cigarette

11. Long shot of Kids running away from mum running through the forest

12. Long shot of the witches house

13. Medium close up of the pie

14. Long shot of door opening

15. Close up of foot on the step

16. Long shot of door closing

17. Medium close up of the kids under the bridge

18. Follow cam long shot of running

19. Extreme long shot of children running through the bridge

20. Medium shot of running

21. Long shot to stranger walking down the lane

22. Close up of knife slash

23. Close up of blood splatter on the wall

24. High angled medium shot of Hansel chained to radiator

25. Medium shot of father looking for the children in the dark

26. Long shot witch shadow behind dad

27. Extreme close up of bloody hammer falling to the floor

28. Medium shot of Hansel being dragged into the house by the witch

29. Medium shot of  hand on the door

30. Fade to black title appears

Characters

Hansel- John

Gretel- Lucy

Dad- Danny

Mum-Elle?

Witch- Ashley/Liam

Stranger-Alex

Locations

Millbank

Danny’s house

Music

Nursery Rhyme from A Nightmare on Elm Street

Main theme from A Nightmare on Elm Street