2. Intro to the film
• Title – The Entertainer
• Group – Katherine Stefaniuk, Ewan
Reddyoff, Adam Stevens
• Genre – Horror
• Sub genre – Slasher

3. Final Plot Synopsis
After a news flash of the escape of Harry Atman a convicted criminal.
He is spotted harassing a clown and attending a child’s birthday party.
Jennifer Stevens is 10 today and wants a birthday party with all her
friends at her house so her mum orders a clown. The party is in full
swing when the kids get the main attraction, the clown. After a couple
of minutes of entertaining the clown becomes agitated and takes a
dislike to the birthday girl because she refuses to join in. One of the
children finds an antique jack in the box, which sparks a sequence of
unfortunate events such as a series of gruesome killings to her friends
who all attended the party. After this the clown goes on a murderous
rampage, stabbing and strangling all the children from the party.
Jennifer is able to elude the clown’s rampage, fight for her life and
ultimately defeat the clown.

4. Influences
• ‘It Clown’ – Because it’s a film
about a scary psychotic clown
and it looks quite frightening
and abnormal.
• ‘Scream 4’ – The slasher horror,
same sub-genre and same
settings for most of the
locations.
• ‘Insidious’ – The use of
intimidated children/ family in
fear and the house playing a key
factor and a prominent figure in
the storyline.

5. Structure/Scenes to include
• Title/Production company
• CCTV of criminal punching and dragging someone behind a dumpster/corner, with voice over from
news reporter
• Real clown man is attacked by killer, show on CCTV type footage.
• New clown walk out of the van.
• Shot of the parents opening the door to the clown
• Straight to the back to start the party
• Kids all crowd around the clown when he starts his “act”
• She stays back away from clown while all other kids crowd around.
• Little boy goes up stairs and finds a jack in the box
• Starts to wind up the jack in the box
• Cuts to the clown finding one of the kids and killing them
• Back to the jack in the box kid
• Finds the kids in sequence and kills them in the woods, park, walking to school and the party
• cutting back to the kid in the jack in the box
• Then final shot is the kid on the end of the bed with the jack in the box then the clown in the room
comes into lighting and then takes a swipe for the kid
• Credits/title/release date

6. Generic Conventions
• Antagonist (clown)
• Protagonist (the kids)
• Scream Queen (small girl)
• Knife as murder weapon

7. Characters/Stereotypes
• Clown killer- vicious
• Small girl- vulnerable
• Parents- caring, oblivious
• Friends at party
• News reporter

8. Settings/Locations
• In a fairly modern standard house as the main scene
and location. Then within the house, the huge living
room where all the children are and then the dark
scary room in which it’s the child’s room with lots of
toys etc.
• Back garden
• News studio
• Woods
• Van
• Park
• Stalking location

9. Props/Costumes
Props Costumes
Knife Clown costume – wig, makeup
etc
Interactive whiteboard for Suit for news reporter
news reporter
Van Children party hats
Jack in the Box

10. Cinematography/Lighting
• Then when the clown arrives dark colours
start to take over. In the room its virtually full
dark, hardly any light to make it mysterious
and scary.
• High contrast, low saturation.

11. Use of Sound
• Children noises, emphasised screaming.
• Jack in a box theme tune playing over trailer
starting at a certain point to add intensity and
fear.

12. Editing and Effects
• Fast cuts, Eerie colours, High contrast, Low
saturation, Sound beds

13. Title screens/Typography
• Creepy large fairground type font to relate to
the clown. Fast title scenes.

14. Target Audience/Uses and
Gratifications/Points of Identification
• Teenagers and young adults because it’s like
child hood memories having fun and then the
impact of the clown, which many people are
frightened of and it plays on their own fears.
There is blood and violence which is will be a
15 certificate. Mainly males because they like
action packed horror films.