Horror Film Ideas

We started to think about ideas for our horror film opening by individually coming up with ideas and then discussing them as a group.

Zara's ideas

• psychological
• creepy setting
• mystery
• young cast possibly a big group

Alex's ideas

• use of lights
• maybe someone is trapped and one escapes
• writing on a bathroom mirror and a reflection behind
• someones see someone getting attacked but it is a clone of them
• cliff hanger

Stephen's ideas

• clown mannequin
• use of lighting-when its light everything is fine then it flashes dark and things start to move

Summer's ideas

• asylum
• flash back in to the past
• teenagers break in and try brink back the dead
• someone storms off and found dead

We then started to develop our ideas and bring them together, we all agreed that there should be an element of mystery and that you should not see the killer, also that it should be psychological rather than gore. We then agreed on:

• group of friends
• use of hand held
• abandoned warehouse
• friends think its funny

We then expanded on this and began to develop a basic plot:

• it would be a group of friends that our looking to have fun and mess around
• they talk about the rumours of where they are going which starts to scare some people
• someone goes missing when the lights go off and we start to panic

We decided we would open with various articles and pictures of the abandoned location we are going to. The ending we decided would be of us all running away and the camera would be left on the floor to see our feet run away. We decided that it would be all hand held but then decided that hand held would not show off our potential and convey the right meaning so we decided to use a range of shots.

We then thought about what is normally included in the opening of horror film so that we know what to include and decided we needed:

• introduction of main characters
• setting of location
• credits of actors, directors, producers, production company
• genre through conventions e.g music
• engage the audience to keep watching