1. It’s similar to scream as it involves
Adaeze Ndakoji a group of teenagers getting
tormented and killed. And we also
It’s similar to this as refer to horror movies in the
a majority of it is
shot on a hand held Pitch Analysis trailer, and scream also had a lot of
post modern references.
A mix between The Blair Witch Project and Scream, The Summoning is about a
group of teenagers who participate in a séance at their school on Halloween and
get much more than they expected, when a spirit rises to haunt and torment
them.
Iconography: used in
many horror movies.
We named our movie The
Séance is an attempt to Summoning because it is about the
Teenagers are common communicate with spirits and rising of a spirit, and summoning is a
iconography in horror movies, the supernatural genre, and is word associated with spirits and
so we decided to use them as associated with demonic demons. We also got feedback from
our characters. possession so we knew this people saying that they instantly
would be scary. thought of horror movies when we
mentioned the title to them as it
sounded evil.
A school is where children are
meant to feel safe, and is a place
where they are educated and
nurtured. So we thought it would
A holiday completely associated
be effective for it to be the setting
with horror. Adds more terror
for them to be tormented.
to the movie and is also a
precursor for something bad
happening.