Resit: Costumes

Bill Hasley Junior

For the part of Bill Hasley Junior we have decided to go with simple clothing to not overcomplicate matters and keep quite modern for verisimilitude within the audience and modern day clothing. We have decided to go with items similar to the ones below: 

The white in this striped tshirt connotates the innocence within Bill Hasley as a younger child, just before he turns and becomes the man that made him the killer. This clothing has versitimilitude of the modern day clothing lines.

Having plain trousers that are similar to today's clothing and not wanting them to stand out too much to the audience and bring attention away from the shirt and the connotations, the black can also connotate and foreshadow the death of upcoming victims.

These types of boots which looks worn, can give off the time period in which it was filmed, obviously Bill Hasley is shown as a younger child around the age of 17, therefore it would be more appropriate to have the younger version of Bill Hasley to wear old boots than to wear new white trainers, as it would not appeal to the audience.

Bill Hasley Adult

For the part of Bill Hasley in our opening, we have decided to use dark clothing as we do not see the killer's face and don't want to give away too much so the audience will appeal more to the film and it's storyline which is later revealed. Clothing isn't seen as much in the opening as we don't see the killer's face, all we see is an extreme close up of the killer's eyes and the silhouette of the killer, this would be portrayed better if the killer would be wearing dark clothing. 

We would have the killer wearing a plain, dark black hooded jumper underneath a coat so that he can fit the mask in between the hood, as well as plain dark trousers, we don't want to give away too much of this character as thinking about the film as a whole, we would want that to come out more as the film progresses. Keeping the costume for the opening simple and not overcomplicated will set the mood, as well as black being a generic costume wear for horrors.

 As well as the Killer wearing a dark hooded jumper, we want the character to wear a jacket, to match with the weather conditions, which could give off a type of pathetic fallacy, with the character just killing a victim, setting the mood and tones for the upcoming scene after the opening. 


Jess Wilding

Resit: Final Shotlist

This has been made to our final shotlist, we will go from this shotlist to make sure our filming goes smoothly.


Jess Wilding

Resit: Initial Shotlist

This is an initial shotlist of what our favourite initial storyboard, when filming we would go from the shotlist so that we were more organised and follow our planning so filming in the process will be easier.


Jss Wilding

Resit: Initial Ideas

For our resit we have decided to once again do a horror piece. This is due to our experiences before and now we know how to improve on them. Last year as a group we liked the idea of not revealing the masked figure. We would like to change the ideas by introducing the character when he is younger to show how he turned into a killer. We also wanted to have more of the conventions of horror in our piece so it could easily be recognised as a horror production.

As a group we came together and discussed our individual story lines and came up with other possible story lines and how we could film them to the best of our ability. We have chosen a variety of shots and techniques to give the feeling of fear and tension.

Initial idea:

We want to have a young adult, aged around 15 years old to be walking through a field when he sees something that he is scared of. A close up shot would be used to show the fear on the characters face. He would be seen to run away in fear.

This would be progress to our inside shot of the character when he is older, aged around 19/20. The audience will kept in the dark as to what he has done but the piece will have connotations of death with blood around the shot. The character will calmly be doing a regular task such as cleaning up, but surrounded with blood which will show a contrast between the things that would normally be happening at his age and what he is involved with.

The character would then put on a mask or something to hide his identity and leave the shot. The titles would then come up after this.

Will Howlett

RESIT: Audition Script and Research

Before auditioning people for the cast of our film, we needed to come up with a script so that we can see how they look on camera and what they are like in the position of that certain character.


We thought of giving everyone that auditions for the News Reporter the initial script that we came up with for the film opening. We decided this as, if we see how they say the lines we might notice that we may have to change the script in ways to suit their look, personality and tone, this is to make the opening seem more realistic and understanding for the audience. Copies of the script will be given the auditioners before filming to go over their lines and practice.

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NEWS REPORTER: Breaking news! Another body has just been found dismembered in the Chelmsford region in Essex. The body was found in Highlands Park, the famous location of the V Festival, at 11pm last night. Witnesses believe they saw a man approximately 6ft tall wearing a mask escaping the area, police suspicions leads to believe this could be another attack from the notorious Ransom Ripper.


 May have to change the script to suit the actor’s voice and sentence structure of a News Reporter, this is just a first initial script.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Considering the film as a whole, we decided to not just take a photo of the men that will audition to take the character of the serial killer, but to come up with a couple of lines that may be presented throughout the whole film. By doing research on modern horror films we came up with a scirpt for the auditions that the characters can act out.

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Older Bill Hasley

Bill Hasley is the serial killer’s name, the scene is set when Bill goes out to find his victim to torture her. The first line is a scene where he is in the same location as her, setting is dark and atmosphere is creepy and eerie, he's walking around with a knife in his hand and prepared. Kate is hiding from him.

Older Bill Hasley: [whispering in the dark] Kate, come out. I know you’re hiding from me. COME OUT!

The next scene is a bit further into the scene where they are talking. Kate is scared and the serial killer is out to get her.

Older Bill Hasley: [closing the door, to Kate] Oh Kate, I've missed you.
Kate: [crying and shaking] No!
Older Bill Hasley: There hasn't been a moment where I haven't thought about you.
Kate : [terrified] Please don't do this to me. No! Please!

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Younger Bill Hasley

This is an audition for the younger version of Bill Hasley. The first line in this scene is set in Bill Hasley's bedroom, he's thinking aloud to himself, talking of the things he has seen. He isn't frightened, he's curious.

Younger Bill Hasley: I can't believe what I've seen, why would he do that? Out of all people? I wish I hadn't seen it but what if it happens to me? I have to get out of here and find out the truth.


Jess Wilding

RESIT: Film Brief

Kristen Blakley murdered aged 15, 24th September. Innocent girls continue to disappear and the masked killer is on the loose, the obsession is just beginning.


Jess Wilding

Resit: History of Horror

0"If movies are the dreams of the mass culture... horror movies are the nightmares"
— Stephen King, Danse Macabre

Horror has been around for thousands of years, it is an ancient art form. People like horror films due to the rush of adrenaline and the thoughts of things that are not natural. Horror stories are used to tell tales from times long ago and the type of things that doesn't normally happen in everyday life.

Horror films not only tell tales from long ago they can give hints and clue to what is happening in the time of writing, for example Nosferatu (1922)  This tells the story of not just vampires but, but offers images of a town suffering from random deaths these are echoes of the Great War and the Great Flu Epidemic fatalities.

Every generation has the "bogeyman". In the 1940's when Hitler created a large shadow over the world the character which inspired much fear was one that was half human half wolf, this was to show the animistic things that was going on in the world at the time. The use of animals became redundant as make up and the character becomes more in depth, horrors such as "Hannibal Lecter: Silence of the Lambs"  (1991) used human characters to create fear as people could relate to the character and the situation became real as people could imagine it happening to them.

During the 1960's horror films changed from stories of monsters to those surrounding family life, this was due to teenagers who have grown up with horror films in the 1950's. They became sterile to the small budget and small set up of horror films and wanted a film that they could identify with.

Horror films have changed over the years from physiological thrillers to films containing gore and violence, these films became large after the large success of the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) which contained scenes with large violent content. The audience was shocked by this amount of gore which led to films such as the Saw franchise starting in 2004 ending in 2010.

Horror films have changed from being small budget small production films to large blockbusters with large budgets, this is to match the need for adrenaline that the audience needs to think that the film is scary.


By Will Howlett