Primary & Secondary Audiences of the Slasher Genre

Primary Audience

The primary audience of slasher films is 15-24 year old's, almost entirely made up of adolescents. There are a few reasons why teenagers are drawn to the genre. Critics argue that it is the frequent violence, nudity and sex that attract a teenage audience.  Slasher films usually feature teenagers as the main characters, and adults are portrayed to be useless. The age of the characters attracts the target audience of 15-24 year old's, as they can relate to the emotions and feelings expressed by the teenagers on screen. 

Secondary Audience

The secondary audience of slasher films is 24-35 year olds, or mature youth. 

PP - Fake Blood

For our shoot Millie made fake blood for us to use in our killing scene to make it look more realistic. It was easy to make and looked quite effective on the shoot.

Here is the recipe we used to make it:

• cocoa powder (to make it darker in colour)
• corn flour
• red food colouring
• water

Its a really simple way of making fake blood and saved us some expense on the shoot as well, we also discovered that a little bit of it goes a long way and it looked really effective against the scream queens white top. 

KH - Shoot Planning 1: Script

[walking towards camp through a field]

Ashley: We better not have much further to go I need to sit down... These shoes are killing me.

Charley: Well I did say it would be a long walk it’s your fault for not wearing sensible shoes.

Ashley: I don’t remember it being this far last time.. I really need to sit down.

Patrick: Look, it’s there in the distance we will be there in a minute. You’ve already slowed us down we’re not stopping again.

Ryan: Leave it out man, you’re the one rushing us it doesn’t matter when we get there.

Charley: Come on let’s not argue tonight we’re here for Mikey, tonight isn’t about us.

[arrive at camp] *putting bags down*

Ashley: This place creeps me out.

Ryan: Watch out there’s something behind you.. (false scare).

Ashley: (screams)

Charley: Shut up Ryan.. just ignore him Ashley.

Patrick: Ashley.. where have you put the flowers?

Ashley: Oh man I knew there was something I forgot.

Patrick: But you still managed to remember your make-up.. You’re so self-centred you couldn’t even remember the one thing we asked you to, what are we going to do now?

Ashley: I’ll go into the woods to pick some flowers, if you’re all so bothered.

Ryan: Patrick stop winging on it doesn’t matter, I’ll I come with you..

Ashley: No I’ll go on my own I’ll only be 5 minutes.

[leaves group]

*walking in woods, hear rustling*

Ashley: Hello? Ryan stop trying to scare me I know it’s you.

Ashley: Stop messing around! You’re scaring me now..

Mikey: Hello Ashley.

[Ashley turns around and is stabbed]

                         END

Teaser Trailer

KH - Shoot 1

Shoot 1

Our shoot took place on the 17th February 2013. We filmed all of the shots for our film opening at Linton Camp. We started filming at 11AM and finished at around 4PM. The location was extremely good for getting a range of framings and shots, but we did spend a lot of the time trying to figure out what would look best. It would have been more ideal and time efficient if we had been up to the location before the shoot as a group to plan where we could shoot and how we would do it. Our actors all arrived at different times during the day, so we planned to shoot the shots in a particular order to save time.

The weather on the day was very sunny. This was a slight issue as we were hoping for a dull day which would have created a more eerie atmosphere.



Interior



Millie filming

Shot of Location

Building

Props; Knife & Fake Blood

Millie Filming

Location; Linton Camp

Poppy as the Scream Queen in the Killing Scene

Millie filming

Derelict Building at Location

Filming Group Shots

Buildings at Location

Killing Scene

Filming the killing scene

Killing Scene

Filming the Killing Scene

Inside the Building

Filming the Killing Scene

Filming the Scream Queen

Poppy Filming

Killing Scene

Inside a building at Linton Camp

Filming Group Scenes

PP- Shoot Planning

We are planning to do a shoot for our production on Sunday 17th Feb. Here is a list of shots we plan to film:
(everything will be filmed from a variety of angles with different shot types.)

• Take a variety of establishing shots of the surrounding area.
• Establishing shots of the area from behind trees (POV of killer).
• Group shot of them walking to the camp.
• Shots of them setting up and sat round (variety of different framing options etc).
• Scream Queen separated from group - POV shots of her walking away, different angles.
• Stalking shot of Scream Queen - her realising she's being stalked leads to quick pace editing and chase shots. Lots of shot variety framed with trees and buildings.
• Back to shot of group wondering where scream queen is, close ups etc.
• They hear scream.
• Scream Queen killed.

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