Our Finished Storyboard

Our first inital group storyboard showing the shots we plan to take.

Group y

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We chose 4 main shots from the sequence to show the camera angle, sound, titles, visula style/transactions and notes on the shots.

Planning our opening sequence

This was a group discussion on what we all thought would work well it included our theme, storyline, location, costume and props and characters.  I think this lesson our group worked well and we agreed on most things.

Preleminary

To help practice for our opening sequence and so that we could get used to working as a group and using final cut, we was asked to produce a Preliminary sequence that we could practice using the camera angles and use group discussion and work around how we would take out a short sequence which helped to prepare for our opening sequence. We experimented a range of shots, close ups, zoom, panning shots e.t.c from what we had learnt in lesson.

Production Guide- Planning our opening sequences

On our first group lesson together we sat and discussed our initial ideas and plans of what we had drawn on a story board to compromise and decide on how we was going to film our opening sequence.  We all had different perceptions on how it could be filmed the best. I had decided that I thought the best opening would be of a man standing in the middle with an over the shoulder shot to show him washing his hands with blood I found this idea from a scene in psycho. I also had the idea of a girl been drove of in a boot to a forest I was influenced from this idea by the front cover of the movie eden lake . Both my ideas were used however slightly changed. We compromised to have the male actor doing daily routine leaving his house with him cutting his face with a razor which introduces the idea of blood. We also changed the young girl in the boot to be in the setting of an industrial estate which I disagreed would be the best idea however compromising the group had to work together. We then had to contribute all into creating our storyboard by giving our ideas, and shot ideas roughly and writing them down before we would draw the storyboard so we were planned ahead. 

Film Idea

We all contributed to creating our horror opening sequence, we each produced a storyboard and discussed what the best idea would be,We decided to use my idea of the girl in the boot as our ending part to the opening sequence, however i thought the location should be in a forest but after a group vote we went with dans idea to have it in an industrial estate to be original.  This seemed to get everyones attention, helped that it was easy to access using dans car, and we got permission to use the industrial estate.  Dans idea to add the idea that we should present the male character as a normal man to lead to confusion for the audience as the character leads a secret life of murder. Luke helped contribute to the idea that the film would be based on a kidnapping story as he talks about other people that our involved.



 

Research of Horror films and opening sequences

Research developed into opening sequence


I have researched horror films by looking on google and viewing popular opening sequences this gave me an insight to how they get the audiences attention, by creating mystery that the audience will question whats happening and intrigue them, we adapted mystery into the opening sequence by having an ordinary man living a normal life but leading a separate life of physchological maniac the part of him that enjoys kidnapping young girls. i also researched the history of horror films.

History of horror movies 


Horror films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears,  often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films effectively center on the dark side of life, the forbidden, and strange alarming events. They deal wit our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our revulsion's, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death and dismemberment, loss of identity, or fear of sexuality.

Day1

Today we got put in to our groups. Our Group Media P- Me, Alice Piner, Daniel Drinkwater and Luke Smith. We spoke and got on quite well, we spoke about what sort of films intreseted us, what type of genres we watch, they were all completely different but I felt we all got on well and we all had different skills that would be contriubted into making a good opening sequence as a group.

After this lesson we then indiviually went away and researched the genre of our opening sequene