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.

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.

Possible Ideas

http://www.eng.umu.se/monster/john/sound_music.htm

I think that this website could be very useful in helping us to decide what type of musical elements we may want to include in our film opening. We can see a selection of different varieties in music that are used in many popular thriller films e.g simple three note melodies as used in Jaws and the Halloween series. Therefore helping us to decide what style of music we want to include to help our opening fit the genre of thriller.

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Themes

We have already established that we are going to create a film opening for our coursework. We haven't actually been given the specification yet but we have been thinking about some ideas.

• A Horror theme - Night time, mysterious characters, dark colours (eg, red, black, grey etc)
• A Romantic theme - Candle lit dinners, Romantic Setting (Countryside), nice and relaxing colours
• A Thriller theme - Cliffhanger, very mysterious, maybe makes the audience jump.
• A Mystery theme - Nothing to be exposed, scary to some extent.

Musical Inspiration

This music inspired me alot. For our film opening we want a suspence opening and we thought that some music like this would create the type of atmosphere that we want. The only thing with this music, is that we don't want it to be cheesy and with this it could be percieved that way. We also wouldn't be able to use this exact song because it would be copyrighted. We could though, get some music which resembles this.

Coursework Ideas

I have already established that I am going to create a film opening for my coursework. I will be working with Luke on this. We haven't been given a specification but we have been thinking about some ideas.

•A Horror Theme - Night time, mysterious characters, dark colours (e.g. red, black, grey).
•A Romantic Theme - Candle lit dinners, Romantic Setting (Countryside), nice and relaxing colours (e.g. pink, cream).
•A Thriller Theme - Cliffhanger, very mysterious, makes the audience jump.
•A Mystery Theme - Nothing to be exposed, scary to some extent.