TD: Casting, Characters and mise-en-scene

possible cast member

Red Christmas

Cast

-Santa

-Carol singers

-Group of people in car

choir girls

 choir girl

-Someone at the first house

Props
-Fake blood
-Christmas decorations
-A sack

-Pillows

-Santa posters

Tilly modelling santa costume

Our film starts with a group of carol singers going house to house collecting money. the opening will start with an establishing shot then move into a mid shot as they approach the door to sing. This opening will be in silence after the opening idents and titles which will have the carol singers music in the background this will be like the opening of halloween where there is complete silence after the music at the beginning this will first create suspense and build the narrative enigma.

Then we will cut to the first house where we see the carol singers singing and collecting money from there singing . Then we have close ups of the scream queen so the audience know she is the first person to be killed and the target. we then cut to a long shot of the children leaving this will be panning shot and will built the narrative enigma and make it feel like someone is watching. Next we will cut to inside the house and have the christmas music in back ground . we will have the camera going round the house in one long shot to show the setting. the camera will then go into the kitchen and we will have a knock at the door and then the killer will stab the turkey which is in response to the knock at the door. The house will be filled with christmas decorations ands christmas posters. The killer will then walk down the stairs to the door and the camera shot will be a close up of the the boots walking down the stairs. We then have santa opening the door and the group singing . Then a close up of the
 santa s face then the target girl.Santa then slams the door in the faces. long shot.Then we see the group walk away and you see the girl walking home. The street is silent and we see a extreme close up of the girl as the thumbing noise in the background gets louder. there is long shot to see the car headlights zoom down the street.

SlasherEG: Halloween

Halloween 2007 (Rob Zombie)
Produced by: The Weinstein Company, Nightfall Productions, Spectacle Entertainment Group, Trancas International Films
Distributors:Dimension Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer(United States) Paramount Pictures 
Budget: $15 Million
Box Office: $80.2 Million
Ratings: Imbd-6/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 25%
Opening Sequence: 26 Minutes

Camera
As this particular opening sequence is extensive, i shall focus of the most interesting uses of cinematography. Within the opening minutes the audience are introduced to what is a chaotic family lifestyle, this is represented by the 'video cam' style of filming, the camera is shaky and purposefully fails to focus on one character at a time, this is done to represent the chaos that perhaps shaped Michael's childhood. the next piece of camera work i am going to focus on is Michael's first killing of the school bully, during the attack the camera pans around the bully whilst he is cowering on the floor to show the isolation and loneliness the character must be feeling at this point. Another noticeable aspect of this opening sequence is the fast paced editing used to enhance realism. This shows the progression or in-fact the opposite of slasher films, as the original halloween took much longer shots.
As Myers approaches his sister an over the shoulder shot is used to perhaps increase the panic of the audience at this point, a kind of pantomimic effect takes over as the audience can see what is about to happen however the potential victim cannot. During most of the killings, close up's of Michael's face are used  which I feel is a poignant method to symbolize the deranged violent thoughts going through Myer's head at the time. It also displays the eerie expression of the masks. 
Points Of InterestWithin the modern Halloween franchise, quotes from academic's in text are used to intensify the nature of the film and killings. For example in this film an emotive and dark description of a psychopath is used. I believe it is a clever way to give the audience some 'pre knowledge' before the film has even started, it sets the tone and setting for such a film. 

Shaky camera to enhance chaos