Synopsis Edit

After going over the storyboard we have decided to change some bits of the synopsis as we have came up with better ideas for the short intro sequence. The overall brief of it is : A girl is going through a corridor slowly and all she has to light the room up is a lighter, while walking the lighter goes out and takes a few seconds to relight and continues through the corridor. She enters a room and see's some sort of creature in the corner. At this point we see the point of view of the creature and then from it's point of view it starts running up to the girl and goes into a chase scene. We do not see the creatures face of the girls face as this gives mystery and questioning to who is the girl and what is that thing chasing her. It goes into a dramatic chase scene  where we still don't see the girls face or the creature and she there trying to use the lighter to see where she going and eventually she gets into a room and locks herself in where luckily there is a key in the door. You hear banging on the door as the creature tries getting in and the girl backs away from the door and slides herself against the back wall of the room. The camera slowly goes up her legs till it goes to the girls face where she is weeping and scared. Make up will be fake blood, smeared lipstick and basically the girl looks a mess. The girl screams and it ends with the title coming up the title of the film intro will be called 'alone in the dark' we are thinking of using some sort of fade in effect for the title as it gives more of a effect of the film and gives little ideas of what kind of film it is.

Shot list

These are the shots we are using in the feature film, in order.
Shot 1: Close up of lighter
Shot 2: Close up of lighter with door in background
Shot 3: Long shot of the door to the room
Shot 4: Close up of the light switch including a pan whip to the light
Shot 5: Long shot of the zombie in the corner of the room
Shot 6: Long shot of girls feet in the door way
Shot 7: Extreme close up of the girls eye
Shot 8: Close up of feet running away
Shot 9: Long Shot of the corridor with doors on either side
Shot 10: Close up of a door on the left side of the corridor
Shot 11: Long shot of the corridor with doors on either side again
Shot 12: Close up of hand turning door key
Shot 13: Midshot behind the girl with the pan going down her body, door visible infront.
Shot 14: Close up of the door banging, zombie on other side.
Shot 15: Close up of girls feet, camera panning up her body.
Shot 16: Close up of Lighter flicking
Shot 17: Jump shot of lighter flicking
Shot 18: Close of lighter flicking this time door is in sight.
Shot 19: Close up of a clock on the wall, it's midnight
Shot 20: Close up of girl's ragged face
Shot 21: Titles

Locations

Dan has rang a friend  today and asked for any possible locations that we could use for our title sequence. He had a suggestion of a old mansion down the road from the college that would be a ideal place to film but the place is locked up and would require to get in contact with the owners to be able to film. He will inform me on any other locations and will ask around for me and my group.

Synopsis

This is a brief explanation of what will happen in our opening sequence: A girl (of target audience age) she hears a bang and walks into the room, flicks the light on and sees a huddled figure in the corner. The light turns off and she runs away, she can hear the figure advancing towards her. The she runs down the corridor, she stops, you can hear her heavy breathing, she flicks a lighter on infront of her face, you can see the figure behind her. The lighter flicks off, she yelps and then you hear a growl and a thud (her falling on the floor) then like an eating noise and then the lights come on and you can see her dead body, the titles appear across her body, music plays 'let it shine'. The titles will appear in some sections where light is shone.

Genre Research Summary

Our research has had an impact of our work as we will shape it into what our audiences want from a Horror.

For our titles we would have red text on a black background, typical horror titles. The titles will float slowly across the screen and fade in and out of transition to give this eerie idea, this is quite typical of a horror which is what our audience want.

Because are audience want typical horror qualities we woul have deep, slow music playing like a piano. Screaming noises are also typically associated with horror so we will put some non-diegetic screaming noises in.

The characters we see in the opening sequence would be the heroine, portrayed as innocent, through costume, eg a white dress and a close up of her 'innocent' face because the horror genre always has an innocent character.

The lighting would be normal, everyday lighting to give the audience an idea that it is a real life scene, with bright rooms. For example  a street in the opening titles would be like a street in real life.

Ellipsis, we don't know what happened to the character and enigma codes.

The editing would be fast in the chase scenes and fast music would play when a character is scared. Close ups of face and slow zooms to make the audience focus on what is going on.

Target Audience Research

We've done some research to help what qualities of horror movies people enjoy. We chosen four people, two boys and two girls, who are all 16. Two of these people are mainstreamers and the other two are individualists. We chose two different audiences to get an feel for their contrasting likes, or if they are similar.

We asked the four people this question on Facebook:


We received these responses:

Target Audience

We need to appeal to our Demographic and Pyschographic audience.
Demographic is the audiences social status determined by their career. For example, Manual Worker or Managerial role. They are all set in different 'social grades'.

We decided that C1, C2 and D were going to be our demographic audience as it is a low budget opening sequence so it would be easier to appeal to the lower social grades.

The psychographic side of the audience is a way of targeting needs, desires and aspirations of the person.Some psychographic groups are:

·   Mainstreamers: people who don’t like to be different but are conventional in their tastes and aspirations

·   Traditionalists: people who don’t like change and are very set in their ways

·   Hedonists: people who just want to have a good time

    Individualists: people who want to stand out from the crowd and like to think for themselves

·   Rebels: people who don’t want to conform but challenge the traditional way of doing things.

We are trying to appeal to Mainstreamers so we will use expected themes and narrations.