Practical Production Review

Directed by:
Lamia Hakiki, Hasnaa Khedarun, Valeria Bramucci, Farah Khan. Starring: Hasnaa Khedarun, Valeria Bramucci
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Pulse of Darkness consists of a hollywood horror trailer. It conforms to the horror genre by featuring shock, suspense and terror all envoked from a disillusioned female aiming to murder an innocent victim, using a knife as her primary source of attack.

To ensure the audience's generic expectations were fulfilled, we used a variety of close ups, which were present, of the victim to illustrate her fearful facial expressions; this shot was used to capture the blood stained knife to raise fear from the audience as that naturally would result in alarm and therefore create enigma as a cut occurred thereafter.

Our decision to include a parallel soundtrack, proved really creepy as it complimented the negative events occuring; such as the villian chasing the victim, which therefore proved dramatic and entertaining for the primary audience.

It's easy to identify the sense of realism "Pulse of darkness" adopts, which is prominent in the mise- en- scene, which complimented the horror genre and conformed to the horror ideology; therefore complimenting the codes and conventions, which are actively present in horror films. This was easily identified from the blood stained knife- an icon greatly used by the villain to inflict pain in the history of horror films, also the blood stained victim, which created the illusion she was really injured. This resulted in the trailer proving realistic and forcing the audience to identify with the victim, from their pain she was actively experiencing.

Interesting facts:
-The blood we used was made from ketchup, honey and food colouring
- We had so many on going problems with the editing, after We were assigned the laptop, which resulted in us constantly needing assistance and getting delayed in editing. This was due to the software constanstly freezing, so we had to keep re- starting the programme, it proved really annoying but it fortunately worked out in the end and proved a relief for all of us.

Valeria