Music Inspiration

This is a fantastic piece of music which everytime I listen to gives me loads of inspiration for this type of music being in our film. It is a peice of music which allows your mind to figure out the riddle in a way. This is the type of music i would like in our film.

Update!

We have drafted some new thumbnails, and we have now decided that we are going to see the kidnapper drive home, go into his house, sit down and make a drink for himself. He will then look at a missing poster which has been put on his doorstop. This is of the girl. He then walks out in to the garage. As soon as he walks in some fast up tempo, scary music starts. We then see the girl get dragged in to the garage as a flashback. We see the kidnapper standing over her, and burning the missing poster. Then the title comes up.

Thumbnails

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.

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.

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

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Coursework Ideas

I have already established that I am going to create a film opening for my coursework. I will be working with Abbi on this. We haven't actually been given the specification yet but we have been thinking about some ideas.

• A Horror theme - Night time, mysterious characters, dark colours (eg, red, black, grey etc)
• A Romantic theme - Candle lit dinners, Romantic Setting (Countryside), nice and relaxing colours
• A Thriller theme - Cliffhanger, very mysterious, maybe makes the audience jump.
• A Mystery theme - Nothing to be exposed, scary to some extent.

Coursework Research

For the coursework, Me and Abbi are going to work together.
We will create a 2 minute film opening.
Here are some film openings that inspire us;






These are the opening titles to Spiderman 2. This inspired us because we liked the fact it was very close to reality but was a cartoon. We thought that the colours were very effective and we liked the fact that the background was spider man's costume. It was done like a spider's web which creates realism. Although this is a really good opening, it would be too hard for us to create, but we are hoping to have colours which stand out just like this does.





This is the opening credits to Casino Royale, which is one of the newest James Bond films. This one inspired me because i felt that the idea of James Bond's openings work very well. They are the same for every film. They have about 5 minute action, or talking and then they have a small cliff hanger and then they have a song which is the theme song for that film, and then have credits. I like the credits to this film because they have clearly been recorded as normal action, and then changed into cartoon. You can tell this by the black figure playing James Bond, because it is very alike to the actor who plays James Bond. This is Daniel Craig.

This is an optical illusion. This inspires us because we both like the idea of something being different to what it first seems. For example, in this we see two old people, but when you look closer we see two people sitting on a path playing instruments. We are not sure how we would put something like this into a film opening but we could at least think about different elements which we could include.

This inspires us because of the colour in the poster because of the colour. For example the dark background and the contrast between the two people. We also really like the colour used in the film which you can see on this trailer;