Hello and welcome to my blog, where you will find a record of the background research and planning of my slasher film opening, High Royds. Here you will also find my colleagues work as well as i worked with several others over the past six months. The film which inspired our film opening is Madhouse (2004, William Butler).

Friday 7 December 2012

13 Films Analysed In Class

Slashers (2001)

Budget - £165,000 

Box Office - Unknown

No opening indents and credits shown at the beginning. The opening starts as the beginning of a TV show.



Urban Legends (Jamie Blanks, 1998)

Budget 14m

Box Office USA 38m

Uk 1.1m

Idents

Phoenix pictures 

Titles

Pheonix prictures presents

URBAN LEGEND

Names of actors 


Scary Movie (WAYANS, 2000)

Budget 19m

Box Office 157m USA

9m UK
Idents

Dimension Films

Titles

Scary Movie - black background with red title.


Mad House (William Butler, 2004)

Idents

Lions Gate Films

Titles

There is no place like home - written on wall like blood dripping.

Lions Gate Film Presents

A Madhouse Production

Names of Actors appear

Directed by William Butler - last title (very important) begins and ends with this title.

Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974)

Opening shot of an establishing shot of house.

Titles

Black Christmas

Staring... (actor names)

Cry Wolf (Jess Wadlow, 2005)

Idents

Rogue Pictures

Rogue pictures presents 

Hypnotic pictures

Titles

Cry Wolf (Serif, half of letters missing, carrier font which signifies typewriting, decay and death.)

Donkey Punch (Olivier Blackburn, 2008)

Idents

Warp Films

The Uk Film Council  

Film 4

In acosiation with Screen Yorkshire and EM Media presents

A Warp X production


 
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (Jonathan Levine, 2006)

Idents

Occupant Films

Titles

All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (Blood, sharp edge font on words)

April Fools Day (Fred Walton, 1986)

Ident

Paramount 

A Gulf Western Company

Titles

April Fools Day (Film starts in Background, colour of title signifies comedy)

Baby Sitter Wanted (Jonas Barnes and Michael Manaserri, 2008)

Idents

The Independent Film Company

Big Screen Entertainment company group

Titles

Babysitter Wanted (blood splat on background)
5ive Girls (Lauren Sonoda, 2006)

Idents

Alliance Atlantis

Archetype Films 

Titles

Names of Actors (don't appear until 5 minute in, decayed background of forest, trees and blood splatter)

A Film By Warren P Sonoda

Leprechaun (Mark Jones, 1993)

Budget $900,000

Opening Weekend $8.5m

6 films in the franchise, another been made in 2013

Franchise 

Leprechuan 1

Leprechaun 2

Leprechaun 3

Leprechaun In space

Leprechaun In the hood

Leprechaun back 2 hood

No Final Girl

Scream Queen - Jennifer Anniston (Brunette, Not busty or sexually active. Not like your typical stereotype scream queen)

Weapon used is a Pogo stick

Lots of merchandise to buy to keep money rolling in to keep the franchise going.

1 comment:

  1. what is this popst about? idents?
    whatever its about, make it clear in the post title - and don't just provide, summarize what you've learned from looking at all these
    you should be hyperlinking film titles, adding in some images/embedded vids etc

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