Initial Planning

Horror Film Opening

Certificate and target audience

• Certificate we will be aiming for is 18+
  
• Both male and female targeted audience

Setting

• On the Evening, natural day light for outside and dim lighting for the house, relying on natural sources of lighting in the house hopefully it won't be too dark because we don't want the lighting to be affected.
• The locations for a horror film we have decided are, firstly a graveyard to introduce the film opening and the remainder of the opening will be set in a house, a normal everyday environment in which people should feel safe and secure.

Costumes and Props

• Mask and white clothing for the antagonist
• Black dress (funeral clothes) for the protagonist
• Lilly's
• Candles
• Mobile Phone

Storyline

We have put these conventions together and thought up numerous shots that follow a particular potential storyline for the opening sequence of our horror film. Lily’s, we thought would be a very good prop to use and convention for our horror film. This is because through research we have established that lily flowers are related to death and are a common flower present at funerals. The presence of this flower in our opening will be symbolic of death. We are going to use a young girl for a main character, coming in from a night out; she is alone in the house and very on edge and apprehensive and she’s hears noises, feels cold drafts and feels as though she is actually not alone. Takes off her heels and goes into the living area where she attempts to unwind and relax from her night out. Her attempt to do so fails as she begins to feel more scared and unsafe in her home. Little does she know she is being watched by a mysterious person wearing a mask who is peering through her window and then in her house. Her phone rings and she answers to find there is no one on the other end. She goes upstairs to discover a filled bath with candles and lily’s surrounding it. Shots of the antagonist are seen on numerous occasions in various locations around her house. We see her begin to undress and the camera is distracted when we hear her scream in the background; to then find the girl dead in the blood filled bath, fully clothed, smeared make up down her face, blood on the walls and a lily resting on her body.

Editing

• Credits and titles
• Parallel and contrapuntal music
• Diagetic and non-diagetic sounds
• Jump cuts, match on action etc
• Transitions