2. Joanne.
For my Assignment 8 project, I obtained a grade .
The skill I bring to the group is my imagination and
quick thinking to solve problems and contribution to
concepts and ideas.
Some targets I have made for myself are to:
Add more visuals to my work and use less words.
Sometimes go into greater depth with my explanations.
3. Gledis.
In assignment 8 I received a grade.
From this assignment I leant:
How to apply elements and ideas used in other films and
opening sequences to my own opening sequence. I also learnt
the significance of making my opening sequence appealing to
my target audience.
The skills that I bring to the group are :
Creativity
My attention to detail and perfectionism
My ambition to get things done
Targets that I have set myself are:
It is very important to organise my slides and information
neatly so that they are understood by my audience.
It is essential that I include more images and diagrams rather
that too much text
I must speak louder when presenting my work to an audience.
4. Abigail.
I received a on Assignment 8.
I learnt about the importance of props and makeup as
well as how to properly design a brainstorm.
I bring creativity and organisation to my group. These
skills will be particularly useful when we make the
opening sequence.
I want to improve the design of my presentation and
work on writing briefer sentences.
5. Vera.
I received grade because I was missing a piece
of my presentation.
What I learned from this assignment is that i need to
improve more on my PEE.
The skills I bring to the group is my range of new ideas
to help make a good opening sequence.
My targets to improve my individual presentation is to
obtain a grade C or above.
6. Joanne.
My choice in theme was Thriller and my concept was
identity.
My idea for my opening sequence was:
An unknown main character who the audience knows
nothing about is shown.
A second character who knows the identity of the unknown
character is shown.
A dead body in a body bag is being dragged across the
floor.
There is then an extreme close up of a woman screaming.
A black out, followed by a woman being grabbed. (Taken)
7. Gledis.
The theme of my opening sequence is the supernatural /discovery.
The concept of my opening sequence is being haunted and
terrorised by ghosts and spirits.
Main idea:
The main character (a student) runs up the staircase to the top floor of the school.
(close up of feet running) A long shot from the end of the hallway of the character as
she reaches the top
As she walks down the hallway, incoherent, but loud whispering can be herd coming
from the walls.
In between shots flashing images of newspaper articles will appear revealing that the
school used to be a mental institution and something happened involving a patient.
She continues walking. At this point the character is very frightened and shaking. All
the doors begin to slam by themselves. The students drops her folder from the
shock.
She notices blood on a door knob, opens it with her sleeve and follows a trail of blood
to the cupboard door. As she opens the door, high pitched music to plays, what she
sees is not revealed you only see her reaction.
8. Abigail.
The theme of my opening sequence is obsession and the concept
was the idea of serial killers.
The office worker is working late at the office following the latest
murder. A colleague leaves them to it and exits the scene
You see this from the killers POV who is silently watching from afar.
The writer slowly starts to pack up and suspense building music will
start. As they close their office door and turn down a series of
corridors, a dark figure hides behind one of the corners and blocks
their way.
A series of camera angles will be used to film the killer stabbing the
writer and as they die, the killer pulls out a camera to take a
picture.
The final part of this opening sequence is a cut to the killer sitting
at a desk and printing the picture and carefully placing it in his
scrapbook and slowly closing it as the scene ends.
9. Vera.
What went well is that I had a lot of images to support
my presentation and have improved more on my work.
It would’ve been even better if I included my PEE
structure.
The film that inspired me is Precious because it has
abuse in it e.g. Sexual and emotional which helps a lot
because my chosen idea was drama.
10. Genre:
Thriller
We have decided to use the genre Thriller.
We want to use this genre effectively by using a number
of conventions such as crime, possession, haunting and
revenge. We will use these conventions by using them in
our opening sequence to thrill our audience which meets
the conventions of a thriller.
11. Conventions of Thrillers...
Conventions Example Image Use/Develop/
Challenge
Fatal Use- Someone
Attraction becoming
obsessed after a
relationship
Challenge – using
a female as the
Stalkers/ stalker instead of
Obsession a male.
The Fan Develop –
Instead of being
obsessed with a
woman and or a
family, De Niro is
obsessed with his
favourite sports
star and stalks
him.
12. Conventions of Thrillers...
Conventions Example Image Use/Develop/C
hallenge
The Hand Challenge- it
That does it through
Rocks The using a women
Cradle as the crazy killer
stalker who seeks
revenge instead
of the normal use
Stalkers/ of a male
Obsession
Stir of Develop – Its
echoes more obsession
as Kevin Bacon
tries to find the
answers to an
ever haunting
mystery
13. Conventions of Thrillers...
Conventions Example Image Use/Develop/
Challenge
Eye For An Develop – A
Eye woman is used
as the person
seeking revenge
for the crime
rather than the
typical use of a
Crime male character.
The Develop – Not
Ambulance giving the
audience a clear
understanding
of what the
crime actually is
at first.
14. My Inspirational Films
Paranormal Activity
The characters use of
research of their
haunting and finding
other similar
happenings is what we
took inspiration from
and what we hope to
use efficiently in our
sequence
15. Inspirational Films
What I found
Inspirational
about this scene is
the kind of
lighting they used
through out the
more dark scenes
emphasises the
emotions of the
actor /actress
16. Inspirational Films
Black Swan
What I found
inspirational from this
movie is the use of
close up shots which
was clearly present in
this film
It gives a clear picture
of the characters
emotions and helps
the audience to
connect with the
character by seeing
their emotions so
17. Films that have inspired me…
The film that inspired me most is ‘The Ring’
I want to use a similar long shot in our opening sequence.
It’s an effective way of keeping the audience’s attention to the puddle of water
whilst showing the character come up the stairs.
I also want to use a fast zoom in our opening sequence.
18. Use of costume and make-up in ‘The
Ring’
Quite frightening to look at and an effective way of scaring the
audience.
The lighting throughout the whole movie is kept more or less the same.
This creates a very eerie and creepy atmosphere in the movie, common
in most horrors and thrillers.
I want to use dark lighting in our opening sequences .
19. Films that have inspired me…
Another film that inspired me was ‘The Haunting in Connecticut ’
Its paranormal theme has inspired me to make my opening sequence about
a haunting.
Slamming doors…
It especially inspired me to set my opening sequence in a building that’s
haunted. E.g. a haunted house.
I would like to use old newspaper
articles such as this to briefly show the
history of the area.
20. Films that have inspired me…
A scene from ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ also inspired me.
Close up of hand reaching into crib
Draws the audiences attention
to what she's doing.
.
Allows imagination It never shows what Close up of
to run wild making she sees, only her Rosemary’s face
the audience reaction. emphasises her
uneasy. shock, and horror at
what she sees.
21. My Inspirational Films
This film is inspirational
Gothika
because of the scratch
marks and engravings
that the ghost leaves on
her arms is similar to the
idea we had about our
character waking up with
the same marks that the
ghost had when she
died.
22. My Inspirational Films
I found this movie
Paranormal Activity
inspirational because
the characters used
their own camera to
document their
experiences, which I
thought would be a
good addition to our
opening sequence with
our character doing
the same.
23. My Inspirational Films
The Grudge The ghost in this film
is trying to get
revenge for her
death, which is just
like with our film
where our ghost is
trying to avenge her
own death.
24. IMAGES AND SCENES FOM CABIN
FEVER
The camera shot for this The props of this
scene is a mini close up movie is very
shot of his face to disturbing for the
demonstrate fear, audience as it has
disgust and anxiety to disgusting images
the audience. of blood
everywhere.
25. The movie has some kind of
old fashioned humour to it
which makes it more
entertaining and interesting to
the audience.
In this scene the lighting was
very dime which makes it more
scary because it emphasis
death, danger and fear. It
creates suspense to the
audience as they don’t know
what is going to happen next.
26. SCENES FROM THE VILLAGE
A scene where a This scene has a mid
character discovers shot of a character
about the supernatural who is illustrating fear
things happening in the and also of the
village in order to prove monster destroying
to the people that there things in the village.
is something going on.
27. Theme/Concept
An idea we had for the theme was Revenge and the
concept was Possession.
Injustice Ghosts
Grievance
Twists & Turns
Victims Enigma
Revenge &
Hidden Possession!
Vicious
identities
Ghouls Suspicious
circumstances
Unsuspecting Mysterious
Shocking
Someone who has
revelations
been wronged
28. Theme/Concept
Another idea we had for the theme was Justice and concept
was Death
Murder & Manslaughter
Righteousness
Revenge
Moral
Rightness.
Vendetta
Justice & Death!
A
Mystery Cause
Decay
Supernatural
Life After
Death
29. How we got down to one
brainstorm...
After meeting and discussing our idea, we decided that
our first brainstorm was more suited to our opening
sequence.
This first brainstorm carried the theme idea of revenge
and the concept idea of possession.
Using the trigger words, we formed our opening
sequence.
30. Theme/Concept
The way in which we came down to one idea is as we
like Gledis’s idea but had problems with the choice of
set being the school
We later added elements from Abigail's opening
sequence and developed on that
There where some bumps in the road as to the ending of
the sequence but after meetings we came up with
solutions
31. Idea Development Option
We stripped down our opening sequences and identified
the good points and the bad points. After also identifying
the problems that we may have with filming in certain
locations, we decided to structure our opening sequence
to our advantage.
We thought that filming only in one location and
thinking about what is achievable in this one location
whilst also being aware of the different limitations would
be best.
32. Idea Development Option
We also briefly discussed who would do what role and
how everyone would contribute.
We decided on an actress and the discussions about who
will do the other roles still needs to be discussed.
33. Our New Idea!
After feedback, we decided to do option 2 which was to
collaborate multiple ideas into one idea.
We collaborated Gledis’ idea and Abigail’s idea and
then developed it further.
And this is the product...
34. The whole film
It starts with the opening sequence, where strange ghostly
things are happening to the main character.
The main character slowly begins to find out information
about who lived in her home before her. She attempts to tell
her family and friends but they dismiss it.
The main character has a series of close encounters with
the ghost. Whilst sleeping she dreams of its life in the home
she now inhabits.
The ghost possess the main character slowly. Thinking she
is on drugs, her family hosts an intervention for her. At this
intervention, she is fully possessed.
Her family and friends, whilst trying to restrain her,
collectively kill the main character and burn her body. The
cycle continues, with the audience being shown a family
moving into a newly built home where the main characters
house used to be.
35. The opening sequence
The character is at her desk typing and researching ghosts,
hauntings and the history behind where her house is situated.
Suddenly, her television turns on by itself, she grabs her camera to
document this strange experience and this is seen from her point of
view.
After turning off the television, she walks back to her desk, and the
another person’s reflection is seen by the audience as they walk
past her television.
She hears another a noise coming from the drawer behind her, she
scrambles to find out what it is. She finds an old photograph in the
drawer that clearly doesn’t belong to her of a young girl wearing a
similar necklace to the character.
She hears a thump coming from downstairs, she rushes to find the
source of it, running through the corridors in her house she tracks
the noise down to the bathroom and she listens outside the door. As
she slowly reaches for the handle, someone else’s hand slams on
the glass door from the inside.
36. Enigma
The way we want to create enigma is through the combination of
sound and pace. The actress is never fully calm which also keeps
the audience on edge
The end of the opening sequence will leave the audience wanting
to know what happens next as the audience do not see what the
character sees.
37. Target Audience!
Age: It is aimed at 15+, this is because the main character in the
film is a teenager and a younger generation can relate to this because
it will appeal to them.
Location: the fact that it is set in London will appeal to a great
number of people who actually live in London. This is because the
audience will be able to relate to the character and the film and
therefore will be more affected by the film.
E.g. many people who live in London were terrified of using the
London Underground after watching the movie ‘Creep’ which is set in
Charing Cross tube station. This scared many people who used the
station, which is the major aim of a horror/thriller film.
Lifestyle: The movie itself is quite slow pace this doesn’t take away
from it’s excitement. Therefore our target audience would be people
who lead an active life and enjoy trills and sitting on the edge of their
seat whilst watching a movie. The mystery and enigma throughout
our film will appeal to our target audience.
38. Why Our Target Audience Will Be
Interested In Our Film!
The Idea: Our target audience will be interested in our idea because
it is thrilling and exciting and creates mystery (the history behind the
house and the ghost). This will intrigue our audience, because they
will want to find out more.
Form: We want to use very creep and eerie music in some parts then
fast pace violin music to create excitement. This will interest our
audience because the are aiming our film at thrill seekers.
Conventions: We are targeting our film at an audience who
regularly watch horrors and thrillers with conventions such as terror,
and we will intrigue people who enjoy being frightened by films.
We will include ghosts and spirits in order to attract an audience
who are interested in supernatural happenings and life after death.
(Ghost girl). We want to satisfy their interest in paranormal activities
by including spirits and weird unexplained events such as the TV
switching on by itself.
39. Characters
We are using one main character who is seen, and someone to
play the ghost that is troubling our main character, who is unseen.
Gledis is playing this main character as she fits the profile. She is
the same age as we want our character to be, and so will play our
main character extremely well.
Gledis
40. Actor/Character Props/Costume
Gledis Character
The Others The Unborn
This character meets stereotypes of a helpless young girl who is haunted
by a ghost
Some movies in which this is displayed are listed above.
41. Location
We have two locations with this idea.
The first, is a bedroom in which all of these supernatural
things happen to the character in. There are no health
and safety risks in this location
IMAGES
The desk that the character is
working at, when she hears
the noises coming from...
42. Location ...this wardrobe.
More images of the desk...
43. The television that’ll turn
Location
Another view of my itself.
on
the desk and her
working area.
44. Location
This location is nearly always accessible as its my room,
however, the only problem we may face with this
location is when we can film as my mother works from
home and noise from filming could be an issue.
We can get there from school by getting the 266 or 260
bus to Church Road and then a short walking distance,
where we’d have to cross four non-major roads.
45. Narrative
Our opening sequence has a linear narrative with
foreshadowing.
The structure of the opening sequence will not change,
its all in one place and at one time. Also, our character
will be researching ghosts, a series of hauntings etc
which hints at what will happen throughout the rest of
the film.
46. TVZETAN TODOROV( NARRATIVE FILM
THEORIST: NARRATIVE STRUCTURE)
Tvzetan Todorov is a Franco- Equilibrium: it is a narrative
Bulgarian philosopher. He that starts with a state of
lived in France since 1963 harmony, example a group of
with his wife and two people enjoying their live.
children.
Disequilibrium: it is a world of
stability which involves
disruption, example when an
evil event happens to
character in a movie.
New Equilibrium: it is when
the evil in a movie is removed
and it restores harmony.
47. It contrast with
disequilibrium
because it has some
disturbing images in
the middle the movie
This describes
equilibrium as it has This links with new
the character enjoying equilibrium as it
himself because he shows a peaceful
thinks that everything atmosphere
is perfect. between the
characters
48. Binary Opposition: This is a
sophisticated but important idea that
will help you understand how ideas and
meanings are being shaped, created or
reinforced in a text. It is 'a theory of
meaning' and an idea that can be
applied to all texts; it is especially useful
when analysing poetry where meaning
has been 'compressed' into a very few
words.
49. This scene is clearly This particular scene
used to illustrate fear shows the audience a
and danger. A close up basic understanding of
shot of his face explains the movie which links to
what is happening in the the binary opposition
scene without the
audience not even
seeing the next stage
50. Characters and their purpose in
propp’s theory. The villain (struggles
against the hero)
The donor (prepares the hero or
gives the hero some magical object)
The (magical) helper (helps the hero
in the quest)
The princess (person the hero
marries, often sought for during the
narrative)
Her father
The dispatcher (character who makes
the lack known and sends the hero
off)
The hero or victim/seeker
hero, reacts to the donor, weds the
princess
51. This scene shows a character
of a man losing his family
and ends up in an accident
as he tries to escape the true
world.
This scene shows the
character been played by this
woman as a care taker of the
sick or a doctor.
52. This genre links to the theories as the
themes used in all the theories are
included in the decision making, suspense,
disgust and fear been created by the
group.