Halloween Opening Sequence

I think that this is a great example of a good horror film opening. I like the use of POV as I feel it leaves the audience wanting more and they want to know who the character is and what he is doing. I think it would be good if I could somehow incorporate this into our own opening film sequence as we don't want the kidnappers face to be shown to the audience to leave it as a mystery to who they are. I also like how they show the pumpkin which your eyes are automatically drawn to and is a hint for the remainder of the film.

About Our Film

Synopsis;

Sam Parker, 17, was abducted on the 19th August 2010. She was violated by her next door neighbour. As her parents struggle to find any clues to where she is, next door down in the basement un imaginable things are happening, and when they finally figure out the riddle, they're in a race against time to save their daughter.

The title of the film; The Parker Riddle

Catch line; Sometimes, what your looking for, is right next door.

Our Idea

After watching the opening to Saw 2, which I had posted on to mine and Luke's blog, Luke had the idea of creating a similar opening. This is because we think it would be possible to create the same sort of effects which are shown in Saw 2. So we have chosen to use some similar techniques used in the Saw 2 opening in our film as we feel it is a good inspiration for our genre of film.

This then gave us the idea of having somebody kidnapped and the opening of the film would be them waking up. The reason we think this would be good is because it is un explained and unknown and the audience would feel scared for the person waking up and also confused because they will have no idea what is going on.

After thinking about this we decided that this is the idea that we are going to use for our film opening.