1. The title of the film:
Our title is similar to 'The Omen' and 'Psycho' because they are straight to the point they also describe whats going to happen and the genre.
2. Setting/Location:
During our opening sequence we used 2 locations, our first is the place the characters were most comfortable in and second was a warehouse that none of the characters knew or felt comfortable with. Our location of the warehouse was picked because it's a typical scene for a horror film. It's a cold dark place with no emotion but fear. We used this because other films such as Saw have a warehouse and they portray fear very well.
3.Props/Costume
We used this frame because in other horror films, most villians are in dark colours and hidden like in Saw and Scream. This mainly helps to identify that this is a horror film. It has an impact on the audience because it makes this mysterious and they want to know who the villian is.
4.Camera work and editing.
We used a lot of shots whilst filming including close ups and extrene close ups whilst introducing the characters and also in the warehouse we have close ups of their faces again. We also had establishing shots of when they wake up in the warehouse. Sound effects such as a coin being dropped was placed on top when Molly and Bart wake up. This was put on using iMovie. We also had a sound effect of an upbeat song that started at the beginning of the opening sequence that was to make it look like they were getting ready to go out for a night on the town. The music faded out into an eary noise to differentiate from them being happy to them being in a warehouse unconscious and not knowing were they where. We used this because in many horror films they use dark and eary music to make the audience in suspense and make them feel uncomfortable.
5. Title font and style.
Our title has a simple black background with red writing. This has been taken from the idea yet again from films such as Saw and Scream. They have very bold one block colour title and the font is very manly. We chose a darker red that has the similar colour to blood as apposed to a bright red which wouldn't have the same affect. Originally we would have liked to have blood dripping from the writing to make it more Gorey but unfortunately with the software we were using we were unable to achieve this.
6. Story and how the opening sets it up
This frame helps show how the opening sequence sets up the story. We do this by giving the audience false hope that something good is going to happen as they are going out for the night. In frame 6 you see Molly getting ready for a party and upbeat music is played whilst this happens this gives off a positive vibe and the audience wont suspect whats going to happen next.
7.Genre and how the opening suggests it
Our opening sequence genre is horror. There are many clips that suggests this. Frame 7 suggests this because there is blood and gore and it's obvious they are in a warehouse. We also have the glance of the man in the hooded jumper which is also found in horror films. Our opening sequence goes from happy and upbeat to really Gorey and dark music. This also happens in horror films as it leads up to the main event. The image shows a graphic way of one of the characters, Roman, being brutally murdered. In many horror films, it shows scenes of characters being murdered or being found dead. and this is what we have captured in our opening sequence.
8.How characters were introduced
All characters are introduced individually and each in a differentiate unique way. For instance, Molly is introduced with her name on her back, Bart with his name written on a Rizla rolling paper Roman with his name written on a piece of acrylic. However being the director my name was written in a title and not on anyone or anything. Frame 8 shows how Molly was introduced into the film.
9. Frame 9 shows how we used the special effects. We used slow motion during our opening because it is usually shown in many horror films to suggest something is significant. We decided to use slow motion on this clip because smoking can cause death and our film is about people being kidnapped and one dying.
No comments:
Post a Comment