The Woman In Black

The Woman In Black was released on the 10th of Febuary 2012, made on a high budget of $17, 000, 000. It was rated a PG 13 by the American Motion Picture Rating
(http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1596365/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg), it has similar themes in the classification as ours, no nude or sexual scnes, smoking or drugs but plently of shocking and intense scenes. The film is set like ours, in a timeless place with an unclear setting, this alows the audience more control over where they invisage the narrative taking place and stops the product from narowing down the audience to a singular country, making it far more accesable world-wide. The Woman In Black shares the central theme of vunerable children and the adult charachters given a sense of duty to protect them. It was produced by many big companies which would explain that for an unmainstream genre, it was highly succesfull gross of $54,322,273. It also starred well-known actors, such as Daniel Radclife who played Harry Potter in the highly succesfull Harry Potter series. Films adapted from novels are often very succesful, because they generally have a very strong narrative which is essential to any succesful film, Susan Hill is also an already famous author and The Woman in Black has already been running as a succesful theatre production for over thirty years now.

Here is an example of an audiences review;

''I went in to seeing this movie after reading the book, and personally I thought it was great. Horror movies these days get loss in blood and gore and that's what the work thinks is "horror" these days, thankfully this movie took a turn to what horror actually is. There are plenty of scenes that make you jump and keep you on the edge of your seat and the storyline is great too. The only weird thing was there were just a couple scenes in which I just couldn't help but think of Harry potter but that didn't even come close to ruining it for me. I was nervous because I thought they Showed all the scary moments through the previews but they did not! Daniel Radcliffe did a great job and I would go see it again with out a doubt. We need to see more horror movies like this one!''

Claude Levi-Strauss' theory of binary opposition

Levi Strauss Media

Todorov's narrative structure

Tzvetan Todorov Had a Theory That All Narratives Follow to Some Degree

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Music

I did some research on possible selections of free non-copyrighted music for our thriller;

This first one i thought would be good for the begining half of our opening as it is very haunting and chilling.

This is my favourite of the two, it would be potentially used for the second half, although it may be considered too cheery, but this could be used to our advantage as a way of tricking the audience into a false sense of ease.

Editing 2

Looking back in class at what we re-shoot in the weekend we were pleasantly surprised by the quality of some of the shots, one of my favorites being Eve walking down the path blurry, camera focused in on a leaf. However we clearly still didn't manage to organize our time well as although we started filming early, our last shots of Rachael's Mum looking out the window are in the dark which completely ruins our continuity and confuses our narration. We have discussed ways of correcting this error by adapting the story-line so that Eve has gone missing and the Mother doesn't know where she is, thus the time change and to try and edit out the garden in some of the shots and to zoom in on just the Mum so the lighting change is less obvious. I hope our blunder does not damage our end result and i believe that the change in story could be an improvement as it adds to the audiences tension as they do not know where Eve has gone, especially as we are thinking of ending it with an extreme close up of Abigail's eyes with a darkened (via editing) background.