Permission

For my opening I decided to have one of the locations based at my local park, and I am planning on using a fake knife during my filming at this location in order to be able to film there I notified my local police on the location on where the recording will be taking place and the day and time frame in which I will be there, the people who will be there and that I will not be filming the actual 'stabbing'.

This is the Email which I sent them:

Script

Although none of my characters will be speaking during the filming of my opening, there will be a voice over used during shots 1 - 3 and 17-21 to help give the audience a small idea for as to what is going on and small hints for as to why she may be doing all these killings but also if i decide during editing that my opening will be better without the voice over then i can easily get rid of it.

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A death of a loved one is hard to cope with even more so when they killed themselves because of someone.. someone who has nothing better to do than make somebodies life any worse then what it may have already be, but as many people say the soul still lives on {evil laugh} and boy! aren't they right, as often, if someone was the cause of their death their souls seek out for revenge by any means necessary [end of part] (fades out in shot 4).


Opening shots play with no voiceover (shots 5-18)


(Voiceover begins from shot 19-21)

... And man when they do the killers better watch their backs because there is nothing which you can do to stop them. [end of voiceover]

Storyboard

Below you will see my storyboard for the opening of my film. This will be used as a rough guideline to determine what my production will look like and can be subject to change slightly depending on what I think will be best for my production.

Audience, Age Certificate and Institutions

Audience, certificate and institutions

 Synopsis

My film follows the story of Amelia Coughlin as she tries to seek revenge for those who caused her sister, Eva, to commit suicide which was caused from the constant bullying from other students at her college. Amelia believed that on the anniversary of her sisters death she saw Eva's spirit and finds herself becoming possesd by Eva's spirit to seek revenge for her death from those who were the cause of it. Slowly one by one those who caused the bullying disappeared. The film will be based in the modern day with the idea of Amelia's psychological state after her sisters death and is based around depression and ADHD. The film will include the stereotypical eerie music which is used in the majority of horror films. The costumes used will represent the disorientation which Amelia is feeling as she will mainly be only suited in her pyjamas as well as through the state of her house.

Insidious Opening Sequence Analysis

Insidious opening sequence analysis

The Shining Opening Sequence Analysis

The opening sequence for Stanley Kubrick's 1980s Horror, The Shining is almost fully consisted of establishing shots, conveying the peaceful countryside and the yellow car driving along it. This connotes to the audience the isolation of where characters are staying, as well as setting the overall tone of the film as this idea of them being isolated is a major theme in this film. From the establishing shots the emphasis of the amount of isolation is strongly shown with the contrast of the small yellow car surrounded by all of the trees and mountains.

The only time where there was not a form of an establishing shot was when the camera zoomed in on the yellow car, where at this point 'Jack Nicholson' scrolls up on the screen, connoting to the audience that he is the person who is in the car as well as suggesting that he is the main character within the film as he is the first person to be introduced to the audience.

The typography used in the opening allows the audience to clearly see the companies and people who are involved with the film, the use of making the text a icy blue colour does this as well as also connote the Horror genre of the film as this colour could relate to the fact that sometimes death causes human bodies to turn blue, thus foreshadowing that there is probably going to be deaths in the film.


The use of the music with the shots help to produce an interesting contrast with the peaceful setting of the landscape and the use of the sinister music, where at first the two objects do not blend together. This helps for the music to set the tone for the film.

The transitions used are very sharp when showing a different location and symbolising one of the main themes in the film (Change), as the sharp cuts to a different location can convey the dramatic change in the main character.

The main focus throughout the opening is the car as this is the consistent object throughout the opening from the change of location the car is still evident in the shot which conveys a sense of time of how far he has travelled. The use of not including any actors in the opening helps to keep the audience interested, as it allows the audience to wonder why nobody has been introduced and adds to the suspense as this makes the opening more mysterious. The cameras main focus is this car as it is always tracking it, connoting its significance, as the audience may miss it at first. With the car being yellow it could connote that the character in the car is nervous as the colour yellow is associated as a warning colour as well as madness and fear, suggesting that this isn't going to be a 'normal' holiday. The colour yellow for the car is unusual as they are not very common conveying that the main character is not common and can suggest that he is quite abstract.

The lighting used throughout the opening is all from the natural sources suggesting that at this moment everything is fine and that nothing bad is going to happen yet due to the brightness of the lighting.