Horror film opening credits

Here is an opening sequence to a horror film.

The opening credits in the film show disturbing and revieling images to give the viewer an insight to the contents of the film. This could immediatley draw the viewers attention and begin to attatch them to the film.

the names of the actors, producers and director of the film have there names in bold big text to show importance. Some of the names are in red symbolising death and blood.

Audience Research

Horror

We have researched into the genre 'horror' as we have a keen interest for our project to be this genre.
Our research has told us to leave it to the viewers imagination so that they can get deeply into the film and imagine the most scary thing to them.
We also found that you need to really interest the viewer to the point where they are tense. if the viewer can relate to the film more it will bring out more emotion from them.

Comedy

In our research we have found that there are many small markets that appreciate different types of comedy. The most funny kind of comedy to one audience might be the least favourite of another.
The most funny comodies are films where you can relate to them i.e. people in your age group (peers) and people going through the same proccesses.

Willing suspense of disbelief

The ability to bring a viewer into the film completely so that they are heavily involved and attatched emotionally to the film. Things that then happen in the film will affect them more and draw out more attention and emotion, making the viewer enjoy the film to a higher extent.

Lighting

The image shows low key lighting, you can also see the key light is coming from left to right of the images; you can see this as the woman has her right side of her body illuminated and the other in dark shadow. this also means that the key light is harsh. the key light is shining up slightly therefore could mean that the lighting could be called under lighting.




This image is high key as there is loads of light all over the image and its background. the sun illuminates the entire object and scenery. there is not much shadow in the image at all and everything is clear to see for the viewer.

Audience Response

The audience response to our ideas was positive yet constructive in the few criticisms we had.

Our ideas for our Main Project

Our first idea is focused around the genre Horror. It begins with a small girl sitting in a corner of a room alone singing to herself (A ring a ring a roses). She is emotional and has running mascara down her young face. Then the door creaks open and a male figure enters with a wrench in his right hand. The camera shot then turns to his face and a smirk consequently follows. When he walks closer and closer to the girl her singing get’s steadily faster to symbolise adrenaline and pure fear. The music fastens at this point with her singing, when the singing gets to the fastest point a bang will follow with complete darkness. This is when we will start the credits. This whole previous scene will be in black and white to symbolise the past.

Present day; (In Colour)

A young girl is socialising with her friends at the end of school, she starts walking home by herself maybe on her phone talking to a friend. The shot will be following her from the side with a horizontal panning shot to track her movement. She walks past a tree with the same man leaning on it with a newspaper masking his face. As soon as she passes he looks at her walking off, folds up the newspaper and starts to slowly follow her.

Our second idea is very contrasting to the first as the genre is Romantic. The movie will scenes from the two main characters past. Childhood sweethearts through the majority of their childhood spending days upon days together. Perfection, only to be ruined by a family move to the city of New York. As the children are only Teenagers they don’t have any legal power to prevent the move and only have to concede that their love was not meant to be.

Present Day; The male female main character has also moved to New York in her mid 20’s with more than 10 years difference from her childhood sweetheart to pursue her dream of becoming a journalist. Numerous shots will be shot of both characters, Journalist and lawyer just narrowly missing each other in different situations. E.G. One walks into a business establishment while one walks out an opposite door. 

Finally, they meet due to a freak accident. (Accident not decided yet) Their eyes meet and the rest is fate.

Storyboard

Today i have made a story board for the fast and the furious opening. i have wrote about the different editing cuts, camera shots, camera angles and camera motions (movements) i will take pictures and put my storyboard on my blog along with the clip of film i have reviewed.

5 minute review of a Drama (Eastenders)

Zooming out to show a large establishing shot of central london
Medium shot of a builder beckoning another builder ina crane to lift somethink up
Long Shot showing the object being lifted along with the background of the scene
Close up of 2 characters talking
long shot showing a characters wife from his point of view
Medium shot of characters wife
Medium shot of a character walking into the shot from a staircase
Panning down vertically to follow the charater walking down the last bit of stairs revieling another character in the background watching him as he does so
2 characters in the shot 1 in a medium shot and the other in a long shot
vertical Panning shot to show another character coming down the stairs then shows them walking away from the camera into a long shot
Vertical Panning shot showing a  medium close up of some food then changing to a  medium close up of a persons face

Movements and Angles

Tracker Shot
A Tracker Shot is a shot that follows a person or object this is done on a track or dolly so that the camera does not get joulted around when you move over bumps etc.

Crane Shot

A Crane movement is where the crane takes the camera up to show the shot from a higher or lower angle to show the shot from different perspectives to show different things going on in the scene. It is also used to show an establishing shot.

Tilt Shot

Camera angle that looks up or down at the object being filmed, instead of being on the same level. A tilt shot is used to show power in a character by looking up to him/her. It can be also used in the opposite way to show someone with no authority and power by looking down at them.

Pan Shot

Panning is the horizontal or vertical movement of the camera to show. Panning is used to follow the action in the scene or can also be uswed to show the surroundings (establishing shot).

Roll Shot

A roll shot is

Camera Shots

(ELS) Extreme Long Shot

An extreme long shot is a an establishing shot to show the character and his surrounding ( the place the film is set)

Common uses of a long shot is a horizontal shot, a landscape shot, a scale shot (to show the size of something)

(LS)Long Shot

A long shot is most frequently used to show a whole person or object but closer than the (ELS) it is also used to show a person in relation to someone or something else a long shot can also be used as an establishing shot.

(MLS) Medium Long Shot

Show more detail of the person or object than the previous 2 shots however it still contains the background setting clearly in the mis-en-scene, this shot also shows the whole body of the person

(MS) Medium Shot

An (MS) shot is a shot from around the knees of a person to just above there head. It is also known as a 'mid-shot' or a 'three-quater shot'.

(MCU) Medium Close Up

This shot is from the persons chest to the top of there head it shows more detail than any of the previous shots it can show two people talking.

(CU) Close Up

This shot shows the head and sholders of a person it is very detailed it can also be used to show emotion

(ECU) Extreme Close Up

Shows a small amount of a persons face or object. Very detailed (can see emotion of a person clearly)