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A John Carpenter Film Festival

Daviel Byrd GR 612 Spring 2019 Chosen Director: John Carpenter

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I’m going to take you on a journey of how I chose my director and how my final deliverables turned out‌

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At the beginning I had to pick three separate directors and watch at least one movie that has helped define the director in a way. I had to look out for things like visual language. Along with each of the three directors, I also had to explain why I chose the director and movie, include a brief biography, list career highlights and assemble imagery.

The imagery was to be taken from the movie itself as well as from my own research.

Keep going to see who my top three chosen directors were.

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John Carpenter Biography

John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky University and then USC film school in Los Angeles. He began making short films in 1962, and won an Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Subject in 1970, for The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970), which he made while at USC. Carpenter formed a band in the mid-1970s called The Coupe de Villes, which included future directors Tommy Lee Wallace and Nick Castle. Since the 1970s, he has had numerous roles in the film industry including writer, actor, composer, producer, and director. After directing Dark Star (1974), he has helmed both classic horror films like Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), and The Thing (1982), and noted sci-fi tales like Escape from New York (1981) and Starman (1984).

Director, writer, actor, composer, producer

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Captain Voyeur

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Dark Star

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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

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Halloween (1978)

• The Fog •

Escape from New York

• The Thing •

Christine

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Starman

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Big Trouble in Little China

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Prince of Darkness

• They Live •

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

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In the Mouth of Madness

• Village of the Damned •

Escape from L.A.

• Vamires •

Ghosts of Mars

• The Ward

What Makes Him a Good Director

John Carpenter uses minimalist cinematography and lighting. Tries to make empty spaces look full, and full spaces look empty. Shoots all of his movies in Panavision (2.35:1 ratio with anamorphic lenses). The exceptions are Dark Star (1974) and all of his TV work. His films often feature important visuals shown from a video screen (The end-of-the-world transmission from the future in Prince of Darkness (1987), the Norwegian recordings of the expedition to uncover the aliens in The Thing (1982), various TV sets and the general anti-TV motif in They Live (1988), etc.). Many of Carpenter’s films include what he calls a “cheap scare”, where something comes into view very fast and leaves just as quickly, intensified by musical cues. Carpenter makes open compositions that allow the villain/ monster (or sometimes just an object) to pop into frame from the background, the immediate foreground or from either side of the frame. It has since become a horror cliché after using “cheap scares” so effectively in Halloween (1978).

Chosen Film

Halloween is a 1978 American slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. The film tells the story of serial killer Michael Myers as he stalks and kills teenage babysitters on Halloween night, fifteen years after he murdered his teenage sister, Judith Myers. After escaping a sanitarium, he returns home to the sleepy town of Haddonfield, Illinois while being pursued by his psychiatrist Samuel Loomis. Michael stalks high school student Laurie Strode and her friends as they babysit and carries out a horrific massacre. Dr. Loomis desperately seeks to find his patient to stop his rampage, before the carnage intensifies.

Shot in Southern California, Halloween was released on October 25, 1978 by Compass International Pictures, became one of the most profitable independent films. Primarily praised for Carpenter’s direction and score, many credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). Halloween spawned a film franchise comprising seven films which helped construct an extensive backstory for its antagonist Michael Myers, sometimes narratively diverging entirely from previous installments. A remake was released in 2007, which itself was followed by a sequel in 2009. An eleventh installment, which serves as a direct sequel to the original film that retcons all previous sequels, was released in 2018. Additionally, a novelization, video game and comic book series have been based on the film. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Halloween (1978)

Directed By John Carpenter

On a cold Halloween night in 1963, six year old Michael Myers brutally murdered his 17-year-old sister, Judith. He was sentenced and locked away for 15 years. But on October 30, 1978, while being transferred for a court date, a 21-year-old Michael Myers steals a car and escapes Smith’s Grove. He returns to his quiet hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he looks for his next victims.

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Nancy Meyers Biography

Director, writer, producer

Nancy Jane Meyers, born on December 8, 1949 in Pennsylvania, USA, is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She is the writer, producer and director of several big-screen successes, including The Parent Trap, What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday, It’s Complicated and The Intern. Inspired by the popular TV show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Meyers decided she wanted to write. She eventually got work as a story editor where she read scripts, wrote coverage, and worked with screenwriters on projects that the producers were developing. One of the companies she worked at was producer Ray Stark’s company, Rastar. She worked her way up from there to writing her own scripts. Two years after coming to Los Angeles, Meyers was able to quit her job to focus on a career in screenwriting and took film-making classes where she connected with directors such as Martin Scorsese. To support herself, she started a small cheesecake business after seeing the reactions to a cake she made for a dinner party. She was eventually hired as a story editor by film producer Ray Stark, who later fired her after she objected to the fact that two writers were each working on the same script without the other knowing.

What Makes Her a Good Director Filmography • The Parent Trap (1998) •

Home Again

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It’s Complicated

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What Women Want

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Something’s Gotta Give

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She was originally a development executive. She met her ex-husband, Charles Shyer, when she was helping develop a script he had written. They eventually began writing and producing together. Since the success of What Women Want (2000) and Something’s Gotta Give (2003), she is very sought after as a writer and director. She is particularly in demand because she writes great parts in hit movies for adults.

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The Parent Trap is a 1998 American romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Nancy Meyers, and produced and co-written by Charles Shyer. It is a remake of the 1961 film of the same name and an adaptation of Erich Kästner’s German novel Lottie and Lisa (Das doppelte Lottchen).

Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson star as a divorced couple who separated shortly after their identical twin daughters’ birth; Lindsay Lohan stars (in her film debut) as both twins, Hallie Parker and Annie James, who are fortuitously reunited at summer camp after being separated at birth. David Swift wrote the screenplay for the original 1961 film based on Lottie and Lisa. The story is comparable to that of the 1936 Deanna Durbin film Three Smart Girls. Swift is credited along with Meyers and Shyer as co-writers of the 1998 version.

In its opening weekend, the film grossed $11,148,497 in 2,247 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking #2 at the box office, behind Saving Private Ryan. By the end of its run, The Parent Trap grossed $66,308,518 domestically and $25,800,000 internationally, totaling $92,108,518 worldwide. The film was released in the United Kingdom on December 11, 1998, and opened on #3, behind Rush Hour and The Mask of Zorro.

The Parent Trap (1998) Directed By John Carpenter

In this update of a 1961 film, twins Annie and Hallie (Lindsay Lohan) are strangers until happenstance unites them. The preteen girls’ divorced parents, Nick (Dennis Quaid) and Elizabeth (Natasha Richardson), are living on opposite sides of the Atlantic, each with one child. After meeting at camp, American Hallie and British-raised Annie engineer an identity swap, giving both the chance to spend time with the parent they’ve missed.

If the scheme works, it might just make the family whole again.

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F. Gary Gray Biography

Filmmaker, music video director, actor

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Set it Off

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Law Abiding Citizen

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A Man Apart

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Be Cool

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Men in Black: International

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Crack House

Felix Gary Gray (born July 17, 1969) is an American filmmaker, music video director, and actor. Gray directed Friday, Set It Off, The Negotiator, and Straight Outta Compton, as well as the remake of The Italian Job. Gray was born in New York.

He began his career in 1989 when he appeared uncredited in the satire comedy film Major League. Three years later, he directed the music video for Ice Cube’s “It Was a Good Day.” The video is a literal adaptation of the lyrics. He would go on to direct subsequent videos for Ice Cube, as well as artists such as Cypress Hill, Outkast, Dr. Dre, and Queen Latifah. At 24, Gray directed his first film, the urban comedy Friday with rapper-producer Ice Cube and Chris Tucker. Next he directed the film, Set It Off, with Jada Pinkett and Queen Latifah. He then went on to direct The Negotiator. The film starred Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey and Oscar nominee Samuel L. Jackson, and earned Gray both Best Film and Best Director awards at the 1998 Acapulco Film Festival. was named one of the “50 Best and Brightest African Americans Under 40” by Black Enterprise magazine. He was honored by the African American Film Critics Association with their 2004 Special Achievement Award and was recognized by the Artist Empowerment Coalition with the Artist Empowerment Award that same year. He also received the Pioneer Director award from the Pan-African Film and Arts Festival in 2010.

What Makes Him a Good Director

He did not have a typical filmmaker background like many directors have. He didn’t grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera or start cutting movies when he was four or five. He actually didn’t really start to get into the research of film until he was much older. F. Gary Gray decided he wanted to direct a lot earlier than he started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.

Chosen Film

Friday is a 1995 American stoner comedy film directed by F. Gary Gray in his directorial debut. It stars Ice Cube, who co-wrote the film with DJ Pooh, and Chris Tucker in his debut role. The film details roughly 16 hours in the lives of unemployed Craig Jones (Cube) and Smokey (Tucker), who must pay a drug dealer $200 by 10:00 p.m. Craig Jones, a young man living in South Central Los Angeles, has just lost his job after being framed for stealing on his day off. Not having any plans, he hangs out on his front porch with his best friend, Smokey, a snappy, mischievous drug dealer who sells weed for Big Worm, the psychopathic neighborhood supplier. Throughout the day, Craig and Smokey observe the goings-on in their neighborhood.

Prior to Friday’s release, movies such as Boyz n the Hood (also starring Ice Cube) and Colors portrayed life in the hood as violent and menacing. Ice Cube felt that these films did not portray the full picture of living in the hood, missing a more lighthearted element, with Cube later saying, “we had fun in the hood. We used to trip off the neighborhood.” Therefore, Cube and DJ Pooh decided to create a film that would portray that environment.

The script was only the third Cube had ever written; the previous two were undeveloped. With the film, Ice Cube intended to make a “hood classic”, one that could be “[watched] over and over and over again”. According to Ice Cube, a majority of the film is autobiographical, with much of it being based on events that occurred in his neighborhood growing up. Smokey was based on DJ Pooh’s stint as a drug dealer, while Craig being fired on his day off was based on Ice Cube’s cousin, who was working as a driver for United Parcel Service at the time.

Friday (1995)

Directed By F. Gary Gray

It’s Friday and Craig Jones (Ice Cube) has just gotten fired for stealing cardboard boxes.

To make matters worse, rent is due, he hates his overbearing girlfriend, Joi (Paula Jai Parker), and his best friend, Smokey (Chris Tucker), owes the local drug dealer money— and that’s all before lunch. As the hours drag on, Jones and Smokey experience the gamut of urban life, complete with crackheads, shoot-outs and overly sexual pastors, concentrated into one single, unbelievable Friday.

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Who did I choose to pursue for the film festival?‌

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John Carpenter Biography

John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky University and then USC film school in Los Angeles. He began making short films in 1962, and won an Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Subject in 1970, for The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970), which he made while at USC. Carpenter formed a band in the mid-1970s called The Coupe de Villes, which included future directors Tommy Lee Wallace and Nick Castle. Since the 1970s, he has had numerous roles in the film industry including writer, actor, composer, producer, and director. After directing Dark Star (1974), he has helmed both classic horror films like Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), and The Thing (1982), and noted sci-fi tales like Escape from New York (1981) and Starman (1984).

Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor, Composer

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The next thing on the agenda was to watch some more movies by my director and find a possible connection between at least five of them.

When watching the movies, note taking is a must. It is a good way to find out similarities in movies and you will also have something to look back on in the future.

With the films that I watched, I also made a film moodboard. It contai stills from the movie, a brief synopsis and a little doodle that explains how characters in the movie end.

I also created a design brief and initial content buckets—photo style, type style, graphic style. There were other buckets as well, they came up a little later—color and materials.

Turn the pages to see the film mood boards

Halloween (1978)

Directed By John Carpenter

On a cold Halloween night in 1963, six year old Michael Myers brutally murdered his 17-yearold sister, Judith. He was sentenced and locked away for 15 years. But on October 30, 1978, while being transferred for a court date, a 21-year-old Michael Myers steals a car and escapes Smith’s Grove. He returns to his quiet hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he looks for his next victims.

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The Fog (1980) Directed By John Carpenter

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone (Hal Holbrook) stumbles upon a dark secret about the town’s founding; radio announcer Stevie (Adrienne Barbeau) witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth (Jamie Lee Curtis) discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

The Thing (1982) Directed By John Carpenter

In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot (Kurt Russell) and the camp doctor (Richard Dysart) lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.

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Christine (1983) Directed By John Carpenter

Unpopular nerd Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) buys a 1958 Plymouth Fury, which he names Christine. Arnie develops an unhealthy obsession with the car, to the alarm of his jock friend, Dennis Guilder (John Stockwell). After bully Buddy Repperton (William Ostrander) defaces Christine, the auto restores itself to perfect condition and begins killing off Buddy and his friends. Determined to stop the deaths, Dennis and Arnie’s girlfriend, Leigh Cabot (Alexandra Paul), decide to destroy Christine.

Prince of Darkness (1987)

Directed By John Carpenter

Poking around in a church cellar, a priest (Donald Pleasence) finds an otherworldly vial filled with slime. Frightened, he brings his discovery to a circle of top scholars and scientists, who eventually learn that the strange liquid is the essence of Satan. The slime then begins to seep out, turning some of the academics into zombified killers. As the possessed battle the survivors, student Kelly (Susan Blanchard) is infected by a large quantity of the liquid and becomes Satan personified.

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Village of the Damned (1995) Directed By John Carpenter

Ten months after the small California town of Midwich was struck by a mysterious event during which everyone in the village fell unconscious at once, 10 local women give birth on the same day. As the unsettlingly calm and unemotional children grow at an abnormally fast rate, it becomes clear that they can read adults’ minds and force people to harm themselves.

Local doctor Alan Chaffee (Christopher Reeve) and federal agent Susan Verner (Kirstie Alley) must team up to battle the alien children.

The Ward (2011) Directed By John Carpenter

Kristen is committed to a psychiatric unit where it seems an angry spirit of a former patient is haunting the girls who are being treated there. Kristen makes desperate escape attempts after the staff ignore her warnings about the spirit.

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Some title and subtitle exploration

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If I was to show it all, my process journal would be a novel‌

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Titles •

Unmasking the Masked

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Facing the Unknown

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Wrath of the Assailant

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Surviving the Enemy

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Facing the Mask

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Ripping the Mask

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Destroying Hope

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Beyond the Mask

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Tearing Through the Unknown

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Fearing Death

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Terror Behind the Walls

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The Mask

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The Revenge

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Soulless

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Dumb Females

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Run, B****! RUN!

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Death Becomes Them

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Violent Rampage

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Waiting Game

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Corrupted Minds

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Running from Unknown Terror

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Tearing Through the Unknown

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Evil in the Darkness

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Terror of Darkness

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Void of Evil

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Void of Unknown Terror

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Evil Hiding Among Us

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The Dangerous Part of Us

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Terror Hiding Among Us

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Terror Among Us

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Evil Among Us

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Mask of Darkness

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Void of Darkness

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Darkness Among Us

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Village of Evil

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Village of Terror

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Mask of Terror

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Tearing Through Evil

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Surviving the villain in John Carpenter films

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Facing the enemy and his wrath through the films of John Carpenter

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Finding if the villain is victorious in the films of John Carpenter

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Facing heart pounding terror in the fils of John Carpenter

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Corrupted individuals and how they wreak havoc in the films of John Carpenter

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Soulless beings and the chaos they cause in John Carpenter films

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Jealousy is an ugly trait in John Carpenter films

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Unbeliveable happenings in John Carpenter films

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Fighting an unknown villian in John Carpenter films

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Ruining hopes and dreams in John Carpenter films

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Unsuspecting victims encountering unknown heart pounding terror in the films of John Carpenter

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Encountering unknown heart pounding terror in John Carpenter films

Guiding Narrative •

I am a murderous stalker following my next victim around town late at night

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I am a woman running from someone following me late at night

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TERROR Among Us

A John Carpenter Film Festival

Let’s just say horror theme type was NOT the way to go…hmm…

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To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.

On October 25, 1978, Halloween was released. Michael Myers, to some, is just a man in a mask, while others see him as “Evil Personified.” Some may say Halloween paved the way for other thrillers, such as Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. Since the first Halloween, there have been a number or sequels and remakes. The man behind the mask has been a costume for numerous individuals and topic of conversation in other movies.

This film festival is to commemorate the 41st anniversary of Halloween’s initial release date. Enjoy a thrill to all the evil this festival has to offer.

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.

On October 25, 1978, Halloween was released. Michael Myers, to some, is just a man in a mask, while others see him as “Evil Personified.” Some may say Halloween paved the way for other thrillers, such as Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. Since the first Halloween, there have been a number or sequels and remakes. The man behind the mask has been a costume for numerous individuals and topic of conversation in other movies.

This film festival is to commemorate the 41st anniversary of Halloween’s initial release date. Enjoy a thrill to all the evil this festival has to offer.

The man that

John Carpenter

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Some Type explorations for body copy, quotes, headlines, etc.

October 25–28 Rialto Theater Pasadena, California darknesssurroundingus.com

Halloween The Fog Christine The Thing Prince of Darkness Village of the Damned The Ward

On October 25, 1978, Halloween was released. Michael Myers, to some, is just a man in a mask, while others see him as “Evil Personified.” Some may say Halloween paved the way for other thrillers, such as Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. Since the first Halloween, there have been a number or sequels and remakes. The man behind the mask has been a costume for numerous individuals and topic of conversation in other movies.

On October 25, 1978, Halloween was released. Michael Myers, to some, is just a man in a mask, while others see him as “Evil Personified.” Some may say Halloween paved the way for other thrillers, such as Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. Since the first Halloween, there have been a number or sequels and remakes. The man behind the mask has been a costume for numerous individuals and topic of conversation in other movies.

This film festival is to commemorate the 41st anniversary of Halloween’s initial release date. Enjoy a thrill to all the evil this festival has to offer.

This film festival is to commemorate the 41st anniversary of Halloween’s initial release date. Enjoy a thrill to all the evil this festival has to offer.

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And the winner is‌

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A John Carpenter Film Festival

Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety On October 25, 1978, Halloween was released. Michael Myers, to some, is just a man in a mask, while others see him as “Evil Personified.” Some may say Halloween paved the way for other thrillers, such as Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. Since the first Halloween, there have been a number or sequels and remakes. The man behind the mask has been a costume for numerous individuals and topic of conversation in other movies.

This film festival is to commemorate the 41st anniversary of Halloween’s initial release date. Enjoy a thrill to all the evil this festival has to offer.

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Photo Buckets

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Here is a look at my initial buckets

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Some of my initial photo styles were hard too replicate myself. Others looked like other director styles‌ NEXT!

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Type Style Bold Sans Serif type and handwriting type that can be either the victim voice or the killer’s voice.

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I was getting somewhere with these ones!

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Graphic Style I initially thought scratches were good for graphic elements. They could represent the killer leaving scratch marks behind. They could also represent the victim scratching at the wall trying to escape.

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It was ultimately cut because I couldn’t quite get them to work well with my thread.

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This is my final design brief for my film festival. The name of the festival is Darkness Surrounds Us. I also includes the subtitle, biography, thread, guiding narrative. I also made connects between John Carpenter and other horror movie directors. These connections are some directors who may have been influenced by John Carpenter.

Darkness Surrounds Us

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Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety Biography

Filmography

John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky University and then USC film school in Los Angeles. He began making short films in 1962, and won an Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Subject in 1970, for The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970), which he made while at USC. Carpenter formed a band in the mid-1970s called The Coupe de Villes, which included future directors Tommy Lee Wallace and Nick Castle. Since the 1970s, he has had numerous roles in the film industry including writer, actor, composer, producer, and director. After directing Dark Star (1974), he has helmed both classic horror films like Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), and The Thing (1982), and noted sci-fi tales like Escape from New York (1981) and Starman (1984).

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Unsuspecting victims trying to live an ordinary life encounter an D C unknown villain. While struggling to survive, they stop the foe… temporarily.

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Captain Voyeur

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Dark Star

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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

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Halloween (1978)

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• Village of the Damned •

Escape from New York

Escape from L.A.

• Vampires •

• The Fog

In the Mouth of Madness

Ghosts of Mars

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Christine

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Starman

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Big Trouble in Little China

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Prince of Darkness

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Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Guiding Narrative

“I am a murderous stalker following my next victim, with a knife, down the street late at night before I attack her” “I am a cold-blooded stalker, holding a knife, following my next mark down the street at night, right before I attack her”

Position

The 40th Anniversary of John Carpenter’s Halloween.

Audience

Horror and slasher film lovers. People who want to know more about where the Halloween movie began. Individuals who love being terrified.

Date/Location

October 25–28, 2018 in South Pasadena California at the Laemmle’e Playhouse 7

Additional Events

Halloween Party for children and adults

Director Connections

Wes Craven

Sam Raimi John Carpenter Sean S Cunningham

David Cronenberg Dario Argento

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Initial Deliverables

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Movie Poster Catalog Advertisements Media (DVD) Packaging Website Business System Soundtrack Schedule Tickets Environmental Graphics/Signage

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Photo Style In order to capture the idea I had of looking at things through the lens of the killer instead of the victim, I went to the “suburbs� part of the city at night. I had to be careful out there.

I went with a warm yellow tone, with a spotlight effect in some images. It is supposed to represent a villain/killer stalking their victim.

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Poster Explorations

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voidofevil.com

Halloween

Unsuspecting prey encountering unk nown hear tpounding terror in the films of John Carpenter

The Fog

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Christine The Thing Prince of Dark ness

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Village of the Damned

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Village of the Damned Innocent Victims encountering unknown heart pounding terror in the films of John Carpenter

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The Ward terroramongus.com

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voidofdarkness.com

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Innocent Victims encountering unknown heart pounding terror in the films of John Carpenter

voidofevil.com

terroramongus.com

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Unsuspecting prey encountering unk nown hear tpounding terror in the films of John Carpenter

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Innocent Victims encountering unknown heart pounding terror in the films of John Carpenter

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Halloween

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Christine

Christine

Christine

The Thing

The Thing

The Thing

The Thing

Prince of Darkness

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Prince of Darkness

Village of the Damned

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Village of the Damned

The Fog

October 25-28 Rialto Theatre, Pasadena California

The Ward

Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

Surrounded by

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October 25-28 Rialto Theatre, Pasadena California

The Fog

The Ward

The Ward

Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

Halloween

Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

DARKNESS

Among Us

DARKNESS

Among Us

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Halloween The Fog Christine The Thing Prince of Darkness

Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

Halloween / The Fog / Christine / The Thing / Prince of Darkness / Village of the Damned / The Ward

Village of the Damned The Ward

October 25–28

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California

Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter October 25–28

Halloween / The Fog / Christine / The Thing / Prince of Darkness / Village of the Damned / The Ward

October 25–28

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California darknesssurroundingus.com

October 25–28

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California

Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

darknesssurroundingus.com

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California darknesssurroundingus.com

Halloween / The Fog / Christine / The Thing / Prince of Darkness / Village of the Damned / The Ward

Halloween / The Fog /

Christine /

The Thing /

Prince of Darkness /

Village of the Damned / The Ward

Halloween / The Fog / Christine / The Thing / Prince of Darkness / Village of the Damned / The Ward

Surrounds Us Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

25– 28

OCTOBER Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California darknesssurrounds.us

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Surrounds Us Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

25– 28

OCTOBER

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California darknesssurrounds.us

Process Journal

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Halloween / The Fog /

Christine /

The Thing /

Prince of Darkness /

Village of the Damned / The Ward

Surrounds Us Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

25– 28

OCTOBER

Surrounds Us Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

25– 28

OCTOBER

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California

Surrounds U s Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

25– 28

OCTOBER

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California

Halloween The Fog

Halloween / The Fog / Christine / The Thing / Prince of Darkness / Village of the Damned / The Ward

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California

Christine The Thing Prince of Darkness Village of the Damned The Ward

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Surrounds Us Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

25– 28

OCTOBER

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California

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Su r ro u n d s U s

S u r rou n ds Us

Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

25– 28

OCTOBER

25– 28

OCTOBER

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California

The Fog

Halloween

Halloween

Christine

The Fog

The Fog

Christine

Christine

Halloween

The Thing

The Thing

Prince of Darkness Village of the Damned The Ward

darknesssurrounds.us

Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety in the films of John Carpenter

OCTOBER

25– 28

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California Halloween The Fog Christine The Thing Prince of Darkness Village of the Damned The Ward

Prince of Darkness Village of the Damned The Ward

The Thing Prince of Darkness Village of the Damned The Ward

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Final Masterpieces

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Poster I made the soundtrack in a cassette tape format. It works well because most of John Carpenter movies take place between the 60s–80s. Cassette tapes were popular back then. They were used to give your crush to when you made them a mix and they were used in some cars.

Process Journal

DARKNESSSURROUNDS.COM

the films of John Carpenter

Unsuspecting prey meet with quaking anxiety

OCTOBER

25 28

Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 Pasadena, California

Halloween The Fog Christine The Thing Prince of Darkness Village of the Damned The Ward

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Soundtrack

Process Journal

I made the soundtrack in a cassette tape format. It works well because most of John Carpenter movies take place between the 60s–80s. Cassette tapes were popular back then. They were used to give your crush to when you made them a mix and they were used in some cars.

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DVD Packaging The DVD packaging is made so you can slide it out to look at the movies and read the booklet. The DVDs are also designed to slide out. They contain images that are made to represent the villain in each movie—Halloween is the mask, The Thing is the blood that they have to test, Christine is the car itself. Instead of making seven individual booklets, I felt making one booklet would be a better choice.

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Schedule and Tickets The schedule and tickets are small enough for people to put in their pockets. There is an envelop on the last page of the schedule which contains the tickets. You can remove the envelop if you want to.

The tickets are front and back and they contain images that come directly from the movies itself.

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Halloween MONTH DAY YEAR October

25

2019

Christine MONTH DAY YEAR October

26

2019

1:30PM–4:00PM

10:00AM–2:00PM

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The Fog

Village of the Damned

MONTH DAY YEAR October

25

2019

2:00PM–4:00PM

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MONTH DAY YEAR October

27

2019

1:30PM–4:00PM

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Process Journal

A John Carpenter film festival

A John Carpenter film festival

A John Carpenter film festival

A John Carpenter film festival

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Catalog A Guide to All Things Evil is the title on the catalog. It gives the reader access to the imprtant details surrounding the festival—location, schedule, featured films and reviews, director biography, director interviews

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Business System and Advertisements

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Presentation Mode

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