ASSIGNMENT 11: REDRAFT #4.GETTING INTO GROUPS.

Key Code:

Abigail:

Gledis:

Joanne:

Vera:

Group Work:

FEEDBACK OF OUR FIRST OPENING SEQUENCE:

Our opening sequence was too long + more like a film.

We didn’t use enough transitions, or any special effects.

We were missing out on marks, because we had no titles.

The pace of our opening sequence wasn’t fast enough.

We need to be more wary of head space when re-filming, as we had a lot of empty space.

TEACHER ASSESSMENT OF OUR FIRST OPENING SEQUENCE:

DECISIONS AND REVISIONS.

Whilst filming our opening sequence, we had to make a few decisions about the script and the layout, which differed from our original ideas.

Some parts of the script were cut out, as it was unrealistic that a character to say some of the written lines.

There was also some confusion with the intended opening sequence. We had different ideas about what we were filming for it, so had to change it on the day.

CONVENTIONS OF THRILLERS...

Conventions Example Image Use/Develop/Challenge

Stalkers/ Obsession

Fatal Attraction

Use- Someone becoming obsessed after a relationship Challenge – using a female as the stalker instead of 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.

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CONVENTIONS OF THRILLERS...Conventions Example Image Use/Develop/

Challenge

Stalkers/ Obsession

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

Challenge- it does it through using a women as the crazy killer stalker who seeks revenge instead of the normal use of a male

Stir of echoes

Develop – Its more obsession as Kevin Bacon tries to find the answers to an ever haunting mystery

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CONVENTIONS OF THRILLERS...

Conventions Example Image Use/Develop/Challenge

Crime

Eye For An Eye

Develop – A woman is used as the person seeking revenge for the crime rather than the typical use of a male character.

The Ambulance

Develop – Not giving the audience a clear understanding of what the crime actually is at first.

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(POSSIBLE)CONVENTIONS OF THRILLERS...

Conventions Example Image Use/Challenge/Develop

Ghosts

The Others

Challenge – In this film they made you aware of the wrong ghost, whereas in regular horrors, the ghostly figure is clear.

House On A Haunted Hill

Use/Challenge – They used the ghost to create fear amongst the audience and for the characters. They challenged it by making the ghost physically scary.

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CONVENTIONS OF THRILLERS...Conventions Example Image Use/Develop/

Challenge

Misidentification or Wrongful

Accusation.

Primal Fear

Use/Develop.The common feature of wrongful accusation was used and it was developed because the character accused was religious, young and didn’t fit the stereotype of who would be accused.

The Usual Suspects

Challenge – It seems to the audience like there has been a wrongful accusation, as the only survivor is then questioned about the incident that occurred and this typically doesn’t happen.

Convention Explanation Use/Develop/Challenge

Ghosts/Spirits

Our character is haunted by a ghost in her home.

Using – We’re using this as we are doing possession which can be quite a typical feature.

Mystery

Mysterious things keep on happening to the character, and as she becomes aware of this, these happenings get worse.

Using– We’re are using this convention by included mystery all the way through the plot.

Possession

At the end of film, our character is fully possessed. But during the opening sequence, the character has a close encounter with the ghost.

Developing – We’re developing this because our character is possessed slowly and is aware of this possession.

Conventions of our

opening sequence.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

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

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS

Black Swan

What I found inspirational from this movie is the use of close up shots which was clearly present in this filmIt gives a clear picture of the characters emotions and helps the audience to connect with the character by seeing their emotions so closely.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – THE RING

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.

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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 .

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS - THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT.

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.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – ROSEMARY’S BABY

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.

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Allows imagination to run wild making the audience uneasy.

It never shows what she sees, only her reaction.

Close up of Rosemary’s faceemphasises her shock, and horror at what she sees.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS - GOTHIKAThe particular scene I found inspirational about this film, where the scenes where the ghost interacts with the characters by leaving scratched out messages on their arms saying ‘Not Alone’.

I thought that a

similar idea would

be a good addition

to our idea, as the

ghost tries to

communicate with

our character

whilst she sleeps. I also took inspiration from the non-diegetic sounds, because they were creepy and added to what was already a tense film.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – PARANORMAL ACTIVITY

Throughout the whole of Paranormal

Activity, the characters use their own

camera to document what is

happening to them.

I liked the idea of this as it makes the

viewing experience more personal for

the viewer as they literally see what

the characters see.

I want to use this in our opening

sequence as the camera shots made

it more exciting for the viewer, and

we want to add tense excitement too.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – THE GRUDGE

The inspiration that I took from this film was part of the plot – that the ghost was trying to get revenge over her death.

I also felt that the setting added to the creepiness of the film, and so I hope we can re-create this when we make our opening sequence.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – CABIN FEVER

The camera shot for this scene is a mini close up shot of his face to demonstrate fear, disgust and anxiety to the audience.

The props of this movie is very disturbing for the audience as it has disgusting images of blood everywhere.

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In this scene the lighting was very dim 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.

The movie has some kind of old fashioned humour to it which makes it more entertaining and interesting to the audience.

INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – CABIN FEVER

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – THE VILLAGE

A scene where a character discovers about the supernatural things happening in the village in order to prove to the people that there is something going on.

This scene has a mid shot of a character who is illustrating fear and also of the monster destroying things in the village.

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THEME/CONCEPT

An idea we had for the theme was Revenge and the concept was Possession.

Revenge & Possession!

Ghosts

MysteriousUnsuspecting

Someone who has been wronged

Suspicious circumstances

Enigma

Vicious

Twists & Turns

Shocking revelations

Victims

Hidden identities

Ghouls

Injustice

Grievance

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THEME/CONCEPT

Another idea we had for the theme was Justice and concept was Death

Justice & Death!

Righteousness

Moral Rightness.

Decay

A Cause

Life After Death

Supernatural

Mystery

Vendetta

Revenge

Murder & Manslaughter

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THEME/ CONCEPT

These were our previous themes and concepts. WWW: We had a range of different words which

helped us when thinking of our opening sequence. EBI: We could have thought of more themes and

concepts.

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THEME/CONCEPT

We did not change our themes or concepts because it was suitable for what we wanted to do.

We kept the theme revenge and the concept possession because the keywords on that brainstorm helped to provoke new ideas regarding our opening sequence.

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As a group we have come up with a new idea as our first draft was to long and where missing some elements

There were some bumps in the road as to the ending of the sequence but after meetings we came up with solutions

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THEME/CONCEPT

RESEARCH OF TOPIC

http://fspp.net/warn%20poss.htm On this website, I found all of the believed

warning signs of demonic possession and this all linked in with what we had originally decided on for our opening sequence.

The warning signs were things like self mutilation, changes in personality and attitude and blackouts in memory.

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RESEARCH OF TOPIC

On this website, I also found that the outward manifestations of ghosts also linked in with our opening sequence. The manifestations that we had already chosen were listed on this website, and it included things such as:

Knocking, banging or pounding being heard in one room.

Electrical appliances turning on by themselves. A feeling of being watched. Scratching sounds being heard without an

obvious source. And objects seemingly moving by themselves.

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RESEARCH OF TOPIC http://www.yourghoststories.com/real-ghost-story.php?story=2298

On this site I found out that a girl who had been

possessed by a demonic creature at the age of 12,

was seeing shadows appearing from walls, covering

all over her, hearing mocking noises and could see a

white round ball rolling towards her mother’s room

and also hear noises when she is alone at home.

She was possessed until the age of 22yrs but still had

a strange feeling that someone was watching her

when she went to her night shift at the mental home.

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IDEA DEVELOPMENT OPTION – OUR PREVIOUS IDEAS. (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.

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IDEA DEVELOPMENT OPTION – OUR PREVIOUS IDEAS. (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.

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 scream or thump coming from downstairs, she rushes to find the source of it and ends up in the bathroom. She sees the tap dripping and as she turns it off, she finds that the sink is full of blood.

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IDEA DEVELOPMENT OPTION –PREVIOUS IDEAS (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 dispose of her body in a house fire. The cycle continues, with the audience being shown a family moving into a newly built home where the main characters house used to be.

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IDEA DEVELOPMENT OPTION – OUR NEW IDEAS (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.

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WHAT WENT WELL/EVEN BETTER IF…

What Went Well:-Our idea built up tension and suspense for

the audience-It created enigma as it is not shown what is

inside her bathroom making noise.Even Better If:-If was shorter as it went on for too long

which meant it was no longer an opening sequence but a short film.

-Less information is given to the audience to create even more enigma.

OUR NEW IDEA Footage from a night vision camera is shown, in which the character has

her covers pulled off whilst sleeping by the ghost and the lamp switches off.

Zoom out to imply the character is watching the video from her laptop and is horrified at what she sees . The door slowly opens and a gush of wind pushes the papers on her desk.

She gets up, closes the door and sits at her desk. The laptop then suddenly turns off and a mysterious figure walks past behind her (seen by audience only). The door opens violently.

She stands up in fright and the curtains behind her open by themselves. She backs away from her desk. Suddenly loud banging can be heard from inside her cupboard scaring her.

She reluctantly walks to the cupboard doors terrified and opens them. It is not seen what is in their only her reaction. The camera zooms fast into her face and then a blackout.

STORYBOARD

STORYBOARD

We have now changed the storyboard as we have changed the scrip

Ideas have changed in our group adding and removing ideas

Ultimately we have come to a set decision with our storyboard and made sure it ties in with the scrip in meets our visions

SLIDE SHOT

We have also changed the shots list as with our first draft we had many shots but lacked in some areas

We had to use more match-on-action and zooms and different transitions

We hope to use a fast zoom at the end of our sequence to heighten fear and enigma for the audience

As at the end the audience does not see what the character sees

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 ending is unexpected.

You cannot see what the baby sees.

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The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

The opening sequence gives You a view at one of the main

Characters life. All seems Till a sudden turn of events

Enigma is given through the Pace and wondering the reasons

For the turn of events

Black Swan

The opening sequence is every dramaticAnd to many unclear which is a

Perfect portrayal of the whole movie inThe opening.

ENIGMA

We’ve improved our creation of Enigma from draft one, because we have made the ending of our opening sequence more thrilling and this helps to create more enigma as the audience will want to carry on watching to find out why the character is being haunted and what will happen to her.

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ENIGMA