Horror Movie Mood Board

#1 Frightened - Actors will have to show a lot of fear, this would help put the audience in the same shoes, or same place as the actor being scared, message would be easier to get across, and quality of film would be better. Serious horror films require just as much preparation for a role as other genres. It's imperative that the audience believes in the world of the film. The believability of the character is an integral portion of that believable world.

#2 Make-up blood - This will be key to show cuts and injuries on people, audience could think that it actually happened and draw them into the film, with this, we could dramatise the situations and make the audience feel sympathy for the actors. Any horror film we are acting in is a world that needs to come across as believable. True, it's not every day that we might get stabbed in the heart or have our friend's head fall in our lap, but it is our job as actors to make these moments as real as possible.

#3 POV shots - Point of view shots, would be ideal to be seen, as its found footage based, and a trailer, I would like to make some of the shots look blatant that we(actors) took them.

#4 Masked antagonists - Potentially saving us getting an extra actor, this would scare most audience as being seen with a mask thats covering the face, covers the identity, most people would link this to crime, and that they are about to do something bad, easy way to outline the bad guys.

#5 Facial Make up - Including cuts, wounds, scars, scratches, if all good, it would increase the quality of the film, just running around looking fine won't look realistic, but using makeup to fake injuries and accidents would surely make it more realistic.

#6 Group of survivors - Instead of using one person, use a group of friends or just survivors who got together to stay alive, this would be more effective as the audience can pick out their 'favourite' ones, and create a social interaction with each other, talking about it at school, work etc and making the film more popular.

#7 Hideouts - Using creepy abandoned places, to set a scary setting, of course editing and changing the colours would be a priority to make these good. But showing a few quick hideouts and conditions of the place, would bring the

#8 Screaming - Acting in horror films almost always requires some sort of noise of distress at some point or another...usually it comes in the form of a scream. Screaming shows fear and being frightened, audience will see how scary it really is just by hearing the sound, yet some people may even just get scared by the scream.

#9 Woods - Many people find the unknown scary. The woods are not typically where people live. They may live near a forest, but they seldom live in one. Forests have predators, some of them large enough to kill humans. It's also easy to become lost.

#10 Creepy acting by diseased creatures - This would put the audience in discomfort, making them believe this could be realistic and make them scared.

#11 Knifes - Fake of course, using props like this would again, make it look more realistic as its something everyone thinks about when scared.

#12 Chainsaws - How scared would you be if someone was running after you with a chainsaw? Very! I am not sure how or where we could get one, or even a fake one, just to take a shot of one of the diseased creatures running after one of the survivals with one. But I think its a good idea to work around.

#13 Survival - Similar to hideout, show the horrendous conditions the survivals will be going through, stand out how difficult and disgusting some things are, for more drama and sympathy and fear.

#14 Blood trails - Anyone seeing this would freak out, this would mean someone has been seriously hurt or even killed, with blood being on walls, ceilings etc and still dripping, would look fresh and that in only just happened, so the audience may be engaged in the sense of being with the survivals.