Film opening and titling Ideas

In our film opening there are three sections. Firstly, it begins in a bathroom and the door slams, on a CD player the light signifies the song is going backwards. The scene then skips to reflect the backwards motion of the song. Katie's character is the victim in our opening. Her character gets dragged out of the room onto the floor, before you see what happens next you hear a scream, then it goes back to the beginning as if it was a video than had been rewound.

Secondly, the video starts again, it is a morning scene, it is a normal day, my character is sitting and a table and then leaves. It is normal, everyday activity. Mine and Katie's character have a brief dialogue and then my character leaves the room.

We plan at filming it at my house as it was the right setting for the feel we wanted to create and it was convenient in terms of our filming schedule.

-Props wise we needed a boiling cup of water and something to drag Katie out of bed and pyjamas.

-Sound- we will have diegetic music playing during the breakfast scene. There is also a scream when Katie is being pulled away which is also diegetic.

Our name for the opening is 'The Demonic Poessession'. We choose this because we shared lots of different ideas and finalised on this one becuase we thought it was suitable for the content of the film and the genre. The title gives the audience a certain expectation as to the content as well. This fits nto the conventions of the genre as most film titles describe the content of the film.

Music

Within these genres you would expect cmputer generated music rather than songs from recording artists. The music tends to build suspension and keep the audience on edge. The types of instruments create a sharp sound by using violins and possibly organs. This adds and eeriness builds up tension and fear as the audience are not used to the song and don't know where it is going next.

This trailer shows an example of non-diegetic sound as the characters are not aware the music is in the scene. This inspired me in our planning especially as the music stops and starts which adds an element of anxiety to the viewer's experience.

Our film has elements of horror in so by watching the montage of sounds in this clip we were able to explore different compositions of sound and music. The sound in our genre is one of the central components in creating our desired effect, to scare and thrill our audience.

The opening music will set the standard and expectations for our film so we wanted to get it right.

Target Audience Research

Our target audience would be people who enjoy this type of genre. For example people who have watched films such as Paranormal Activity, Haunting in Conneticut and others. The profile of the type of person we would want to watch this film is teenagers and older. We would target this film at audiences who like to be scared and kept on edge. People would enjoy our film as it fits the conventions of being frightening but has elements of reality in it.

The research we undertook was talking to friends, internet research and using IMDB to explore the conventions of our chosen genre and target audiences.

Why I have chosen to study A level media

I choose Media A-S Level because I want to work in acting or filming and I want to explore the conventions of filming and Media to help me with this. I want to go to the New York Film Academy after 6th Form and want to widen my awareness and knowledge of film technqiues. 

I think it is a subject I will enjoy even though I have studied it before. 

Film Institution

 Film Institutions

Paramount- We have chosen to use paramount pictures as the chosen main film instituton,

Peer Assesment of Blog

In my peer assesment of my blog i was given a minimal for my planning of research, my examiner commented' small explination of preliminary task'. I am not dissapointed or worried at this point as i knew my preliminary task was lacking in explination or detail, i will go back and update my preliminary task, therefore hopefully improving my grade.
My examiner also gave me a basic for research into similar porductys and potential target audience. I was given the comment 'Questionnaire but no feed back'. Due to this im going to go back and update my blog with a completed version questionnaire and a short paragraph analysing the results that i was given from my questionnaire, in doing this i believe my grade will able to be improved. For Work on shortlists, drafting,scripting, storyboarding (anamatic) i was given a good and the comment 'Ideas for film outlined, no anamatic but can understand what is happening'. I can understand this aswell as i have done my film outline as i want people to understand whats going on with my film and i have alot of detail in this outline. The reason for the anamatic not being on my blog is because the anamatic is not ready yet as we are taking extra detail with it to make sure its of high standard, once we have finished it it will be on my blog. My examiner gave me a minimul for Levl of care and ICT in the presentation of research and planning. The comment given was 'No images or decoration, basic black and white'. This is beacause my blog has a very basic design with no fancy backgrounds, the reason ive left it like this is because i feel its more professional, however if its going to limit my grade outcome im going to put a background onto my blog. As for images i will put these on my blog after all the writing is done.

Overall im not suprsied with what Anais gave me for my blog, as i was aleady awake i was behind and that my blog needed work. After working on my blog I hope that il be able to improve my blog results.

Questionnaire

1. What is your age range?

Under 12           12-15           16-18             18-21            Over 21

2. Do you enjoy watching Horror films?

      Yes          No

3. Do you prefer a Horror film to be jumpy/scary or have specific elements of Thriller films mixed into it?

Jumpy/scary            Elements of Thriller films           Both

4. Do you prefer ghosts, supernatural ideas or real life thriller based films? Why?

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5. ‘A man and woman are in their house in the bathroom (brushing their teeth etc.) when the door behind them slams shut. This then puzzles them but they ignore it and just believe it may be the wind. They go to the bedroom and go to bed. The woman then gets dragged out of bed mysteriously. This is all being watched back on a video style effect and it then rewinds to previously to the morning of that day when they are having breakfast, living a normal life.’

This is the beginning 2 minutes of our film and is the general plot idea.

On a scale or 1 to 10 (10 being greatest and 1 being worst) where would you rate this film on its potential to be a?

Plot on the scale where you think our horror idea stands

1          2          3          4          5          6          7          8          9          10

6.  Do you have any criticisms on our opening idea?

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9. What title do you think would suit the Plot?

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10. The genre of our film is horror, however what genre do you think our film falls into?

Horror            Thriller                Both