CONCEPT FOR MY MOVIE STARTER

The film genre that i am thinking about making a starter for is a Slasher-Horror, it’s going to be the basic stereotypical story line of the type of film. I hope to be able to explore the world of stop motion animation with clay. I hope people will find it funny, understand how complex it is to make stop motion animation and how the story line in the movie might play out, making it more shocking if there is a twist at the end. I want my audience to understand what genre and what stile it’s going to be before the film has even started. The basic story line of a Slasher-Horror would be, that there was a killer and he kills a girl and then a detective comes and try’s to investigate but in the meantime another girl dies and then the  killer try’s to kill another girl and the detective comes in and stops the killer, saving the day.

Analyse

The film 'The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari', female victum jane was - as i have already said - exacly what the adianced at the time expected from a woman. This has devaliped over time as woman have become more independent. Comparing Jane to Cidny from the film 'Scream' a more racent horrore film, the differinces is not in the charicter, but in the charicters reachins. You can see the chang from Frankenstein's victum Elizabith to Cat People's Irena who was both victum and vilan, even up to Rosemary's Baby where Rosemary can't help but stay away from the evil in her life. the world has changed and with it the film indrustry has had to chage. the audiances of the world will always want to see somthing difernt from the film industry and this is why in my openon the female victums have changed from victums to reliant leads to woman how fight back and survie on there own acored.

Explain

In movies such as 'The Cabinet of Doctor Caligar' the female victim, Jane, is that a victim. Her acting is over dramatic and every time there is the slights bit of panic she faints. This was expected at the time of the films released, because the woman should be dependent on the men in their lives for survival. Compared to the more recent film 'Scream' were the main girl, Cidny, is not a helpless victim at all, she fights agents the killers. The movie Scream create the rules of Horror films and reefers too many other earlier horror film. The rules were what the audience expected at the time.

"1.Don't have sex
2.Don't do drugs or drink
3.Don't say I'll be back because you won't be"

The ‘rules of horror’ are all said by the horror movie fanatic Randy. The horror rules were all broken within the next couple of minutes after mentioned. If any of these rules where broken by the female victim in this horror genre they would be attacked and sometimes die.

HORROR Movies

Describe

There is a large change between the female victims/leads in movies like The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari and the movie Scream. Such as after Psycho in 1960 and Rosemary's Baby in 1968 the females started fighting back against the killer/monster but are still have no control over their own lives. In Robert Weine's film The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari released in 1919 the female is extremely reliant on the male lead, Alan, for survival. Another big change was when the lead role stopped being a man but a woman this started when the females started to fight back agents the evil in the film. Up until Was Craven, Scream, the female lead would always be saved by the 'big strong man', making here completely reliant on him, this cycle was broken by a character named Gail Weathers who shot one of the killers in the head.