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Name Of Group And Task Idea
Luke and Abbi - Film Opening

Genre
Horror/Thriller

Target Audience
15+

Other Texts It Reminds You Of
Scream, Saw, The Ring, Kiss The Girls

Potential Problems

•Too much work
•Pictures
•Could be quite scary for 15 year olds
•Quite technical
•Not much happening may get boring
•The locations may not be appropriate - garage works best
•Offensive
•Who's perspective are we seeing it through?
•Lighting - Is it night?
•Mise en scene - Convincing location
•Could be a short movie
Positive Comments

•Really know what we're doing
•Good storyline
•Good ideas
•Very good pitch - nice consideration of costume and location
•I like thrillers
•Makes me want to watch the rest
•As it's similar to Saw, it could be quite hooking
•Good planning
•Really inventive and well thought out ideas, good setting and sinister ideas
•Good idea to be like Saw because it could bring Saw fans to watch it
Advice/Suggestions

•Keep it simple
•Garage would be best for setting - dark, cold and gloomy
•Don't complicate things too much
•Look at other thriller movies for more ideas
•Look into music which helps enhance the genre
•Research effective camera shots
•Build tension
•Don't reveal the kidnapper
•Flashbacks to abduction

Sound Effects

We think that a sound like this could be effectively used in our film opening to help build up the tension.

25 Word Pitch

Sam Parker, 17, Taken by her next door neighbour. The opening scene is her waking up in the place she has been taken to. Thriller genre.

About our Firlm

Synopsis;

Sam Parker, 17, was abducted on the 19th August 2010. She was violated by her next door neighbour. As her parents struggle to find any clues to where she is, next door down in the basement un imaginable things are happening, and when they finally figure out the riddle, they're in a race against time to save their daughter.

The title of the film; The Parker Riddle

Catch line; Sometimes, what you’re looking for, is right next door.

Our Idea

After watching the opening to Saw 2, which Abbi posted on to our blog, i had the idea of creating the opening to Saw 7. This is because i think it would be possible to create the same sort of effects which are shown in Saw 2. Obviously we could not actually do Saw 7 because of copyrighted issues.

This then gave me the idea of having somebody kidnapped and the opening of the film would be them waking up. The reason i think this would be good is because it is un explained and un known and the audience would feel scared for the person waking up and also confused because they will have no idea what is going on.

After thinking about this we decided that this is the idea that we are going to use for our film opening.

The Ring - Film Opening Analysis

I think that this is a great example of a horror/thriller theme opening. It straight away makes the ordinary house look creepy and you can already start to get a sense of something bad happening. When the girls are talking it seems like a normal night but as soon as one of them tells the story of the video, we are automatically drawn into the film's main plot. We can already assume that the video will have a reoccurence later on and the fact that she says people have died, we are left wanting to know what will happen.
Also, the fact that it is two ordinary girls we realise that it is happening in everyday life which makes it a more realistic situation.

Scream - Film Opening Analysis

Scream is a classic example of a great horror/thriller film. It is also a good example of a 'whodunnit' film. It allows the audience to join in with the characters at figuring out who the killer is.

The mise en scene is the opposite to the saw 2 opening because this doesn't look like the setting of a horror film, this looks like the setting of just a normal film but that could be what makes it so scary. This could happen to anyone. Later on in this seqeunce the character being played by Drew Barrymoore is murdered by the man on the telephone who is dressed in a long black cloak and a mask. It leaves the audience wondering who this person could be. It is not revealed til the end of the film.

This film was a succesful one and we can see why. What we want to take from it is the idea of not knowing who the 'bad guy' is and allowing the audience to also try and figure it out, along with the other characters.

Saw 2 - Film Opening Anaylisis

I think that this is a good example of a film opening, as it leaves the audience with a question of how this man has got where he is and what is going to happen to him. It also appeals greatly to a lover of horror films as we can see from the start that something bad will happen, the music helping to build up the suspense.

The mise en scene in this clip is very important because you have to be careful with every litte bit of detial. Everything has to fit in together and fit perfectly in to the scene and i think this is does well.

This film opening really draws the audience in because everything is unknown and that can really scare someone because they know nothing.

From this we would like to take the idea of knowing nothing, and also the idea of it starting with somebody waking up to create that effect of knowing nothing.

General Ideas

At the minute nothing is set in stone on what we are going to do for our coursework but between us we have some ideas at what we want to achieve with this film opening.
We've decided that we want to use Horror as our theme.

I have seen a lot of horror films and i think that the first few minutes is really important, maybe even the most important part in the film. Like any film, it's what draws you in straight away. The thing with a horror film is that it can either be really good or just not very good at all. Some can be seen as taccy and not scary. We don't want ours to be taccy but it will also be hard to make it scary. This is why we have to think about things that scare us in a horror film so we can put that into practise while doing our film opening. The things that scare me and draw me in to a horror film is the opening title, and the colours they use for it. The fact that most storylines don't give much away at all in the first part, it's a sense of the unknown. Also when the audience can relate to the people on screen because it has a sense that whatever happens to them (usually bad things) can happen to you, which scares you.

I think that if we were to create something that included these things in, i think we stand a good chance of being able to scare our audience and create an effective horror film opening.

Fonts For a Title

Here is some fonts which i found on the internet. We will have to have some sort of titles for our film and i think that alot of these could work well with the type of film we want to create.

My three favourites are; Engel Eienstein, Temps Swash and Forefront.
This is because all of them are interesting but not to complex.

Moodboards for Coursework Ideas

Mise En Scene Power Point

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