Prop Preperation Research.



Halloween



Here we looked at the conventions of a horror film and we researched the types of props used. This is a picture of the 'villain' from the film ‘Halloween’; he has a knife in his hand. He is holding the knife with a tight grip, giving the impression that he is going to stab somebody; this is very effective way of building suspense with out actually seeing anything happen.

Tight grip.

We then went on and researched more about knifes and in most horror films the knife is held in this way because it is more intimidating and can do more damage to a person when held like this.

Also we researched on how to make our dolls look scary as that was the effect we was looking for. We discovered things like; Headless dolls, Bloody dolls and dolls that were old but perfectly beautiful. Also clown type dolls can be used to scare. These types of toys can be used to scare because you do not expect them to be like this.

Headless dolls.

Old doll.

clown dolly.



Tied Hands.

The theme that we are going for is filling helpless and trapped. So we thought of what props we could use to represent that. Through research we found that being tied up was one of the main conventions of a horror film that represents this. Feet and hands that are tied together were the main things that we found. We liked this idea because it created the effect we wanted and it was easy to do.

By Olympia Amoo.