WE OPEN on a cold empty street the only sign of life is a hunched over human figure [WINSTON] we follow him down the street as he turns into a large building, VICTORY MANSIONS
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INT. VICTORY MANSIONS – HALLWAY – MIDDAY
The hallway is unkempt and rundown, a large coloured poster of a man’s face [BIG BROTHER] hangs up on the end of the corridor
Winston heads for the stairs ignoring the broken lift, he gingerly starts to climb the stairs wincing with every step as he heads for the seventh floor.
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INT. VICTORY MANSION – STAIRS – MIDDAY
The lightbulbs surrounding the stairs flicker and crackle and a low hum can be heard from the generator downstairs
A screenplay is a form of narration in which the movements, actions, expressions and dialogue of the characters are described in a certain format. Visual or cinematographic cues may be given, as well as scene descriptions and scene changes. (Source: Wikipedia)
Q: How has female representation in horror films changed over time? Using the films Friday the 13TH Part 2 1981 (Miner, US) and The Cabin in the Woods 2011 (Goddard, US)?
Steve Miner’s 1981 film Friday The 13th Part 2 and Drew Goddard’s 2011 The Cabin In The Woods are two well-known horror films. They are both staples in the Horror genre from Friday 13th’s masked killer Jason Voorhees to The Cabin In The Woods’ collection of killers ranging from Werewolves to Zombies. These films have been chosen due to their different representations of female characters and their roles within the films. Lionsgate and Goddard have stated that the Friday 13th franchise heavily influenced The Cabin In The Woods as the settings are similar as are some other aspects. Miner’s film Friday 13th Part 2 is a sequel to the first and follows Sandra, her boyfriend Jeff, Scott, Terry, Mark, Vickie, Ted, and Paul’s assistant Ginny as they enlist in a school for Counsellor’s at Crystal Lake where they are attacked by the masked killer Jason Voorhees. The Cabin In The Woods follows American college students Dana, Jules, Curt, Holden, and Marty who are spending the weekend at Curt Vaughan’s cousin’s cabin in the forest. From the lab below the cabin, Sitterson and Hadley remotely control the cabin and manipulate the students and send killers after them in order to satisfy ‘The Director’.
Friday 13th Part 2 (Steve Miner: 1981) The Cabin In The Woods (Drew Goddard: 2011)
Genres: Horror
Question: How has female representation in horror films changed over time? Using the films Friday the 13TH Part 2 1981 (Miner,US) and The Cabin in the Woods 2011 (Goddard, US) ?
Using portable equipment and requiring little or no set up time, the New Wave way of filmmaking often presented a documentary style. The often filmed in long takes from behind the actors and would also use non-actors who would walk in and out of the frame in the background.
The “Left Bank” filmmakers’ relationship to film was different to that of the five “Cahiers.” It was a collective impulse to steer French cinema away from film as an extension of literature, and toward the development of a cinematic language that stood for itself.
The “Right Bank” were constituted of the more famous and financially successful New Wave directors associated with Cahiers du cinéma (Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard)
Alexandre Astruc’s contribution to the auteur theory centres on his notion of the caméra-stylo or “camera-pen” and the idea that directors should wield their cameras like writers use their pens.
