Planning Major Task

Posted by Lisa;-

The film opening that we are planning has a mixed genre of thriller and horror. We are going to focus mainly on using the element of making our audience want to watch the rest of the movie (if there was one) and build up suspense.


Synopsis;

A teenage girl has a horrible past. She killed her overly-obsessive boyfriend exactly one year before. She tried to forget him, but he didn't forget her and now he has come back to be with her forever and make sure she doesn't forget what she did to him.


We want our movie opening to be fast and keep the audience wanting more. We will try to do this by fast editing, to make it more interesting. By editing all of our shots in Black&White, I think this will add to the scary story that we are trying to portray. By making our opening scene very catchy and quite confusing, we think that this will draw an audience to want to watch it, and we will try to do this effectively by cross-cutting shots and having fast editing.
I am hoping that our filming goes as well as we plan it to so that our opening can be as good as possible. We will be starting this very soon as we need the 'good' weather (Aka. Not raining) to film in. Our indoor shots aren't actually needed until later as our outside on-location shots are our priority for filming at the moment.

Locations;
Location-wise, we will only be using two different ones.
One will be outside in a field, and we want this to give an eerie mood our opening, as it will be quiet and empty, making the audience ask questions.
The second will be in Gordonstoun House, in the long empty hallway downstairs. With the correct lighting and filming/editing skills, we could definately make this location very spooky and this is why this place fits our movie genre perfectly.

Actors;
For our main character, who is female, we have chosen Kim Paxton. For our 'victim/killer' we are going to use Henri Yueksel.

Mise-en-Scene;
We want our backgrounds to be extremely simple to add to the eerie feel of our opening. Possibly by using make-up on the girl, we can show that she is upset, by smudging her mascara or something.

Props;
For props we will need:
-A knife
-Some sort of dark substance that could pass as blood. (Our opening will be in black and white so it is irrelevant whether the substance is red or not, it just has to be dark and as realistic as possible)

We want to keep our opening as simple as possible, so as not to give away our entire story in the first 2 minutes, but enough to make people want to watch more. (If it were a real movie).
Our idea is a very gripping, chilling story and if we pull this task off correctly, I think it could be extremely good.