Horror Film Step Outlines

In order for us to create good opening credits, that are realistic and fit in with our genre, we had the task to look into some of the opening titles to established horror films. The first one that we looked at is the first two minutes of Cabin In The Woods. Below is a slideshare of the analysis that Simran and I created when looking at Cabin In The Woods.

This activity has been useful, as it has shown us some of the conventions that are used in the opening two minutes of horror films, including, the kind of music used, and how quickly the film introduces the narrative. This will be influential when we create our opening titles to our horror film. 

Film pitch, Padlet and Amendments

Above is the Film Pitch, detailing our ideas as a group for our opening titles. We have included a synopsis for the narrative, a resource list and a locations list needed in our film, also there is some information on the title of our film and its genre. Simran has created a slideshare, to depict our ideas in an interesting and creative way.

We needed feedback on our ideas, so that we could determine if our ideas were along the right lines, or if they needed any adjustments. Any feedback on our ideas will be useful and important, as comments from our peers will be hugely influential when we create our horror film, as we will know we area meeting our target audiences needs. Below is the embedded pad let, with the What Went Well comments, and some Even Better If... comments. 

The feedback from our Padlet has taught us that we need to change some of the original ideas we had:

• We need to avoid trying to fit too much of the narrative into the opening of the film, as it wouldn't be conventional and in reality the start of the films don't include a great deal of the narrative in them straight away.
• In our draft treatment we made a mistake with our films name and this error was pointed out by our peers, we mistakingly named it 'The Protagonist' but it's meant to be called 'The Perpetrator', so we need to ensure we change the name.
• Also one of my peers suggested that we make sure that the actor playing the 'Perpetrator' acts realistically, this could be difficult to film and so we decided to have the 'Perpetrators' perspective filmed from some shaky point of view shots.