Initial Ideas Summary

For the task I am working in a group with Laura Poyntz and Luke Davis.

Before we decided on exactly what we wanted to do we all put forward our ideas. Our first thought was that we would have a title sequence similar to the opening for Napoleon Dynamite where the credits would be shown on various objects. The genre to our film would've been a comedy as the theme of the title sequence fits into that genre quite nicely. Our idea was that a 'nerdy' school girl would be packing her bag to get ready to go to school and we would see rather comical items being put into the bag. The camera wouldn't allow the viewer to see her face until the very end when she's about to leave, when it reveals how her looks fit into the 'nerdy' stereotype.
Although this is a rather good idea, we thought that it would be a very simple and easy film opening which wouldn't stand out from other title sequences very well so we discussed different ideas.

Our next idea was that we would shoot the opening to a horror film at Sand Bay (A local beach) and in the woods. We thought that it would be a good setting for a horror as it is quite dark and mysterious however we may have a bit of difficulty accessing this location. Also, after researching with the examiners report we found that a horror clip in the woods is one of the most common types of entries so we decided that we'd like to be a bit different and came up with out next idea to get around that.

For our third idea we kept with the horror genre but decided that we could film it at an old barn in St. Georges. The old barn would give an eery feel to the clip and would be a great location for the opening. I think this it definitely comes away from the woods type of scene as there is only so much you can do in the woods. Our storyline for this would be that a girl or two girls would be running away from an unknown subject. As they run you would see leaves fall in slow motion behind them which would display credits. If we chose to use two girls they would bump into each other, both terrified and run into the old barn thinking it would keep them safe. As they hide and wait slowly thinking they're safe they begin to sense unnatural occurrences  inside the barn which would raise the tension of the intro and hook the viewer. The title scene would then begin to pick up the pace before it cuts to black as the rest of the film would begin, giving it a sharp rise and fall in tension. This intro could be a way of foreshadowing the film or it could be a flashback of the characters experiences before the film begins, to get a bit of a backstory.