Producers

How we came up with our producer:

To come up with the producer suitable for our opening of a horror film, we researched into the producers for New Line Cinema (the distributors we will work in synergy with to produce our film).

Robert Shaye is the founder for New Line Cinema and as I researched further, I discovered he had produced 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and 'Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare', which are two popular horror films.

Screenplay for our Opening Scene

FADE IN:

VHS VIDEOS PLAYED OF TWO GIRLS

FADE TO: LIVING ROOM - DAY

A living room setting with an arrangement of family photos on shelves with a chair beside the shelf with a stack of newspapers and the top one headlined ‘Twin Girl Found Dead’ with more information below and a photo of her and her twin

DISSOLVE TO:

The same picture but in a photo frame held by a young girl, SARAH, who is wearing a dress and tights.

SARAH is looking at the photo in the frame.

MOTHER, a fairly tall woman with medium brown hair in her 30s, walks over to SARAH and rests her colourless hand on her daughters shoulder.

MOTHER

She’s in a better place

Her MOTHER leaves whilst SARAH doesn’t keep her eyes off of the photo

SARAH places the photo frame back on the shelf. Takes a few steps  away and the photo frame falls unassisted from the shelf onto the floor.

FADES TO BLACK

FADES IN: KITCHEN – DAY

MOTHER is boiling potatoes and it is clear that she has used sharp knives to do this as they are out on the counter.

SARAH is outside in the garden.

CONSERVATORY

MOTHER sits down in the conservatory with her cup of tea leaving the potatoes boiling.

SARAH is facing a swing that is swinging by on its own while SARAH talks to it

The MOTHER then picks up her phone to text her husband STEVE

‘I’m worried about SARAH’

MOTHER looks up from her phone and SARAH has suddenly appeared in front of the window of the conservatory the MOTHER is sat at.

END OF OPENING

New Line Cinema

New Line Cinema was founded in 1967 and is known for producing films with both a niche and mainstream audience.

New Line Cinema became a part of Warner Bros in 2008, who has vertical integration across production, marketing, distribution and exhibition which helps the performance of films and generates a higher budget as they own all stages of production. New Line Cinema also has subsidiaries which are New Line Television and New Line Distribution. 

It was founded by Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne and Shaye is renowned in the horror genre as he has produced films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare and New Nightmare, which is partly why we chose New Line Cinema as the producer, as it has produced popular horror films. 

Since 2008, its success has rapidly increased with productions like The Hobbit Trilogy, The Conjuring 2 (a horror genre film), Central Intelligence and Lights Out (a horror film).

Storyboard for Opening Scene

Ideas for our Film Title

We brainstormed some title ideas for different names of our opening. We went with 'Telepathy' as we could incorporate the rope and we would be able to animate the text how we wanted it in the editing process, whereas the others would be harder to animate. 

Afterwards, it was decided how we was going to show the title of our film in the opening to make it most effective. This is what we decided:

Opening Credits for Horror Films

The opening credits in Blade (1996), fit with the genre of the film as they are red and looked as if they have been handwritten, making it seem more realistic and less computerised.

In our opening, we wanted to incorporate a font that conformed to our narrative. With this, we are going to select a font that looks most like handwriting. This is because we have a child that is the main source of horror and the font we use could be most commonly associated with their handwriting.

Insidious (2010) used panning in their opening with no credits and this was effective as it made it seem as if horror was going to appear at any moment. In our opening we are using a panning shot, however, due to the timing, we decided hat it would be best for our opening if we included some credits in our panning shots.

Camera Shots

Depth of Field

This refers to the area in front of the camera that is sharp and is done by adjusting the focus on the camera. It is used to draw the audience's attention to a certain part of the frame. 

The depth of a field can either be deep or shallow,

Aerial Shot

This is an extremely high angle shot, that is generally taken from a helicopter. In a film, it generally establishes the location and setting in which it is taking place and creates This can also be referred to as 'birds eye view'.

Establishing Shot

This shot is similar to the aerial shot, in that it establishes the location and is generally the first shot of a new scene. It is a very wide shot or extreme wide shot. 

Hand Held Camera

This is when the camera is held by the camera operator and gives the effect that the audience is in on the action and seeing what the character is seeing. 

Tracking Shot

This is when the camera moves along the character/ object it is filming. It is commonly used to capture the moving action, like a chase scene. 

Long Shot

This shot generally is categorised as 'life size' in that it shows the full length human body whilst there is still lots of background still in the shot.

Medium Shot

This is most commonly used for exchanging of dialogue as it is from the characters waist/knees up. There is minimal going on in the background.

Close Up Shot

This shows very little of the background, but more of a face or detail of a mis en scene. The shot makes the object appear bigger as it magnifies it. It can be used to show an expression of a character or let the audience get a closer view of them making them feel comfortable or uncomfortable.