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.