Characters: • Amara: quiet, creepy, out for revenge. • Jenna: main bully, mean, manipulative. • Kayla: follower, wants to be popular. • Maya: quieter, follows Jenna, kinda sympathetic sometimes. How I Used the Worksheet: Honestly, the worksheet helped by writing all their traits down helping me actually plan out the story. Amara being quiet? That meant close-ups on her face, calm walking in the halls, and neutral colors for her clothing. She’s almost invisible, but when things start going wrong for the bullies. The bullies being loud and mean? That meant I could showcase them in a way that shows they’re in control at first, and then slowly the weird stuff starts happening, the camera may shake a little, lights flicker. You see them lose control. the Props and costumes were influenced by the worksheet too. Amara’s notebook shows her planning, mirrors show the bullies’ fear, lockers and phones show how the gossip and karma spreads. It helped me ma...
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Script: Karma High Karma High Script #1 Fade in ... Scene: Karma High School (Piper High school) Wind whispers throughout the flagpoles. The bell rings in the distance. Students scatter across campus, talking, laughing. Then the laugher muffles. Amara stands at the front gate, frozen. She blinks back into reality. Scene: Hallway: morning Lockers slam, the camera tracks Amara as she walks down the hall, the world slightly out of sync, every sound echoing too long. Then she spots them. Kayla. Mya. and Jenna The bullies, same snares, same tone Kayla: “Didn’t think you’d come here” Mya: “Guess she likes being a victim.” They laugh. Amara doesn’t speak, just stares. Her eyes flicker with something colder than anger. As she walks away, the lights above her buzz and dim, one by one. Scene: Classroom: day Amara’s desk is apart from everyone else’s. She draws in silence, the three girls sketched In her notebook, but each face is marked with a different symbol: ...
Lighting is one of the most important tools in psychological horror. It helps decides what’s visible and what isn’t. In Pretty Little Liars all the shadows and colored lights add emotion to every scene. The Conjuring also uses low-key lighting that hides certain parts of the set, forcing the watchers to imagine what’s there. Both create suspense without actually showing any graphics. What I Learned About Color in Horror? • Red represents danger or revenge. • Blue/Gray adds sadness and cold tension. • Neutral tones keep it realistic but uneasy. • Lighting can also match emotion — bright when calm, dim when danger is near. How We’re Using It in Karma High? In Karma High, the lighting will be mostly natural from the classroom lights, windows, and hallway lamps, although we’ll darken certain scenes slightly to make them feel off.
Camera movement and framing help decide how the audience feels. A normal hallway shot can look calm or terrifying, depending on the way that it is filmed. Each shot type builds a different emotional reaction. In movies like The Invisible Man and Us, directors use wide shots and long takes to make the viewers view the background just waiting for something to move. Close-ups, on the other hand, make fear feel personal. Camera Techniques Used in Horror: • Close-ups: show emotion in the characters’ faces. • Tracking shots: create a feeling that someone unseen is following. • High angles: make the character seem weak or exposed. • Low angles: make the danger feel overpowering. How are we Using It in Karma High? by using over-the-shoulder shots and slow tracking to make it seem like someone is always watching Amara. When tension builds, the camera will move closer, showing her fear through her expressions instead of dialogue. The goal is for the audience to feel just as...
The logo plays an important with how the audience feels before the film even starts. Horror studios like Blumhouse and A24 set the tone with their logo, it’s usually short, dark, and tense. Horror studios like Blumhouse and A24 use minimal, eerie logo designs.”) Blumhouse, for example, uses flickering lights and shadows in their logo animation, which instantly creates a sense of fear. A24’s logo is quiet and slow, which gives it a slight creepy kind of calmness. What did I Learned from My Research? • Horror logos are short and simple but intriguing. • The best ones use minimal animation but just enough to create tension. • Colors like black, red, and gray work best to suggest mystery or danger in the horror film. black and red color tones for a horror-inspired logo. How are We’re Using It in Karma High? For my production logo, I created Shadowframe Studios. The name appears in white text on a black background, with a quick flash of light passing behind the lette...
Hello! I have a Question… When you watch a movie title appear on screen, what’s the first thing that catches your eye ? the sound, the color, or the font? Fonts might seem like a small detail, but they actually set the tone for the entire film. Why might Fonts Matter in a Film? when researching horror film beginnings, I noticed fonts are almost never basic. They usually ranging from thin, glitched, or uneven, which instantly makes the audience kind of feel -The Ring (2002) uses a glowing, minimal font to build suspense. In The Ring and Gone Girl, the fonts are simple but concerning, the letters almost fade into the background. On the other hand, a movie like Mean Girls uses bright, bubbly text that tells you it’s going to be more on the lighthearted side. Fonts show a preview of emotion before the first scene even starts. What I Learned from My Research • Fonts with rough edges or fading effects make viewers uneasy. • Minimal fonts on black backgrounds look more seri...