Hush- Independant Production Context

This film was writte and directed by Mark Tonderai. It is a film about a couple who on a motorway spot a truck with a naked woman caged up inside they notify the police and pull to a service station where the truck pulls into the driver kidnaps the girl and takes her away the man Zakes Abbot (William Ash) follows the truck to try and save his girlfriend Beth (Christine Bottomly)

This film is an Independant film It has one star in it (William Ash who was in waterloo road)

This film was funded by film 4 and x-warp which are independant production companies. The budget for this film was estimated around £1,000,000. It was filmed in yorkshire along the M1 in the UK.

In this film there were little to no effects used it is mostly camera work and good editing

The cast of this film is quite unknown except for william ash who has appeared in a few other things such as Doctor Who where he played Riley Vashtee and waterloo road where he played christopher mead he played many other parts in other films and TV shows.

This film i thought was brilliant i loved it, the narrative was strong, the dialogue fitted with the narrative brilliantly and it was an intense suspenceful film. It is probably one of the best independant films i have seen.

The genre of this film is horror thriller. There are many codes and conventions in this movie that relates to these two genres. First off the narrative has a very basic tie to the the horror genre it has a story of kidnapping and danger, the dialogue has some certain sentences that would fit only in to a horror movie. The Tag line is alos quite gripping and makes you instantly think horror or thriller. "Only you saw it. Only you can save them" it makes you think about the storyline which in a result promotes the film as its genre.

this film doesnt have many famous actors but it does have one (the lead actor) Zakes Abbott he is played by William Ash who has starred in waterloo road as Christopher Mead and doctor who as Riley Vashtee.

This film is quite obviously noticed as an independant production. You can tell by the filming and narrative because it's all basic there is no complicated narrative or furnished camera techniques, it looks as an independant film should look like.

In this film there were hardly any effects if none as it is independant the budget wouldnt allow overly amazing sfx but if there were any they wouldnt be too glamorous becuase of the production context, budget and the narrative which wouldnt really give much of a cause to have over used sfx in it
 

  

 Horror Deconstruction- Genre Analysis

What does Horror mean? Horror is a genre of a film for instance romance is films with love, fantasy is films set in a different and often magical land and horror is the genre for scary and creepy films for instance ghosts or possesion come under horror. Genre is a french word it translaye as type or class it is used to tell the audience what type of film they are going to watch.

 

 

How can you tell what films fit into the genre? well all films have whats called codes and conventions which is basically everything that makes a film what it is it includes narrative, dialogue, props and eveything else. Horror films are very well known for having blood in them but blood alone doesnt tell you its a horror film but in most horror films the camera shots are usually steady and slow to show a little tension, also the set is usually darker than most other genres, these are two more ways to tell that a film is a horror or not. Take woman in black as an example in the film the camera movements are slow and cautios when nothing is happening but when the scene turns dangerous the camera is usually jumpy showing a bit of fear. 

 

Most horror films have the same general style of camera techniques but differ from film to film mostly due to the story for instance the camera style in resident evil is going to be different from woman in black because of narrative but all horror films have genrally the same idea.

 

Moving away from all of the camera talk start thinking about the way the actors act different to other genres they are mostly dumb people it helps the film look a bit more realistic
For instance in scream, the woman picks the phone up constantly instead of calling the police then she opens the door and tries to kill him instead of running away.



In all horror movies there are similar codes and conventions because of the genre it can also relate to cast and characters for instance you wouldnt cast ben stiller as a pshyco killer in a horror (unless its a horror comedy) no but you might cast someone like christopher lee becuase his acting talents fit the horror genre more than any other wheras ben stilller belongs in comedy