I am working with on other person in my group, and we have decided to make our two-minute film opening for the end of this year based on the sub-genre of psychological horror. The concept of this film opening is that we will have three people dressed up as creepy dolls, and they will be revealed in certain lighting, with flashlights and torches for the first quarter of the opening, until they are shown in full lighting at the end then the titles will be showed, with loud, creepy non-diagetic music to scare the audience. They will then be seen walking, and following a victim, and these will also be shown in certain light until they are fully shown, and then the chase scene will be well made to scare the audience. They will also then pull up into an isolated area. As they speed up, the cameras will follow them, to then see that they are chasing after a victim. The lighting will mainly be quite dark and with maybe a few flashlights, to scare the audience.
The target audience that this film would attract would be fans of psychological horror, which is generally quite young people, ranging from their mid teens to their mid twenties. The primary target audience will be anyone wanting to watch this and either get audience pleasures because they enjoy watching films of that genre, or they are watching this film with the intention of getting scared. There will be a dual narrative of this, because at some points in the opening you will be shown what the victim does normally in his everyday life, then the other narrative you will be shown is the people chasing the victim into an isolated area, and then the opening finishes and leaves the audience on a cliffhanger. By doing this, you keep the audience interested and keep them wondering what will actually happen to the person who is being chased, because they are shown being chased and being tracked down in certain lighting, but what actually happens to them is not shown so it keeps the viewers on the edge of their seat.
The aim of this film opening, when finished, will be to keep the audience on the edge of their seat and make them suspicious as to what will happen to the victim. The mise en scene used will all contribute to the overall aim of the opening, and the sound, both diagetic, and non-diagetic will be full of suspense and will also contribute to the aims. The non-diagetic sound will be things like a soundtrack, maybe a voiceover of heavy breathing and other things like that. The diagetic sound will be things such as loud footsteps when the feet are being shown, the sound of the victim out of breath when trying to run away, and maybe the voices of the people dressed up. The camera angles will be very varied. There will be some extra long shots, when showing what is happening fully. There will also be some low angle and high angle shots, and some close-ups and over-the-shoulder shots.
The mise en scene used in this opening will be the people dressed up in their certain outfits and their makeup. The lighting and props used will be for a specific purpose, and that purpose is to scare the audience. The iconography is the people, because they are very iconic and stay in the viewer's minds long after the scene is over, which is why this is in the genre of psychological horror. The lighting will be made up of flashlights at the start, and then will turn to full on lighting, which could probably be borrowed from school. If not, we could probably get some cheap from the internet or borrow some lighting off a friend. The title scene, which will be after thirty seconds into the opening, will have very loud non-diagetic music being played and the title will be like one in a typical psychological horror- big and loud, trying to scare the audience. The primary audience would be the same as the target audience- people who are fans of this certain type of sub-genre or like to be scared by a film opening.
The logistics of being able to make this is quite good, we will use serious actors and people who took drama for A-levels, then that means they are less likely to be distracted by each other because they are used to being in an environment like that, because they have been used to film before. The location used would probably be some quite dark woods, it would be around the time of sunset so it would be quite dark, and as it gets darker we will continue filming so we can get the bits of lighting with the flashlights and things like that. Shooting days will probably be at the weekend, because we wouldn't be able to do it in school or out of school because it gets dark so early, and we wouldn't be able to do it in the evenings because for some points of shooting we still need some daylight. This will be okay because me and hannah will be able to do saturdays, to film maybe over a few weeks. The actors used will be our friends that took drama and are good at acting, and the scripting will be written by me and hannah both in our media lessons and outside of school because we can do that after school in the media room.
Between us both, we should be able to manage both filming and editing both in media lessons and outside of school, maybe in our free lessons or after school on some days. We will arrange time management between us so we will do a few hours each a week until we get to the time where the video needs to uploaded onto it. We will attempt to share the workload as equally as we can, for example one week we may do two hours worth of editing each, so four more hours have been added onto the work and we only have to do a couple of hours each. We will take it in turns filming. It has been predicted that it will take around two days to film, so one of us will direct one of the days and the other person will film, then the next day one of us will film and the other one direct. We will probably have to use a weekend free to film, so we will both need to book time off work.
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