1. ASSIGNMENT 11: REDRAFT #4.
GETTING INTO GROUPS.
Key Code:
Abigail:
Gledis:
Joanne:
Vera:
Group Work:

2. FEEDBACK OF OUR FIRST OPENING
SEQUENCE:
Our opening
sequence was too
long + more like a
film.
We didn’t use
enough
transitions, or any
special effects.
The pace of our
opening sequence
wasn’t fast enough.
We were missing out
on marks, because we We need to be more wary
had no titles. of head space when re-
filming, as we had a lot of
empty space.

3. TEACHER ASSESSMENT OF OUR FIRST
OPENING SEQUENCE:

5. DECISIONS AND REVISIONS.
 Whilst filming our opening sequence, we had to
make a few decisions about the script and the
layout, which differed from our original ideas.
 Some parts of the script were cut out, as it was
unrealistic that a character to say some of the
written lines.
 There was also some confusion with the intended
opening sequence. We had different ideas about
what we were filming for it, so had to change it on
the day.

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CONVENTIONS OF THRILLERS...
Conventions Example Image Use/Develop/
Challenge
Fatal Use- Someone
Attraction becoming obsessed
after a relationship
Challenge – using a
female as the
stalker instead of a
Stalkers/ male.
Obsession
The Fan Develop – Instead
of being obsessed
with a woman and
or a family, De Niro
is obsessed with his
favourite sports star
and stalks him.

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CONVENTIONS OF THRILLERS...
Conventions Example Image Use/Develop/
Challenge
The Hand Challenge- it does it
That Rocks through using a
The Cradle women as the crazy
killer stalker who
seeks revenge
instead of the
normal use of a
Stalkers/ male
Obsession
Stir of Develop – Its more
echoes obsession as Kevin
Bacon tries to find
the answers to an
ever haunting
mystery

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CONVENTIONS OF THRILLERS...
Conventions Example Image Use/Develop/
Challenge
Eye For An Eye Develop – A
woman is used as
the person
seeking revenge
for the crime
rather than the
typical use of a
Crime male character.
The Ambulance Develop – Not
giving the
audience a clear
understanding of
what the crime
actually is at first.

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(POSSIBLE)CONVENTIONS OF THRILLERS...
Conventions Example Image Use/Challenge/
Develop
The Others Challenge – In this
film they made you
aware of the wrong
ghost, whereas in
regular horrors, the
ghostly figure is clear.
Ghosts
House On A Use/Challenge –
Haunted Hill They used the ghost
to create fear
amongst the
audience and for the
characters.
They challenged it by
making the ghost
physically scary.

10. CONVENTIONS OF THRILLERS...
Conventions Example Image Use/Develop/
Challenge
Use/Develop.
The common feature
of wrongful accusation
was used and it was
Primal
developed because
Fear the character accused
was religious, young
and didn’t fit the
Misidentifica stereotype of who
tion or would be accused.
Wrongful Challenge – It seems
Accusation. to the audience like
there has been a
wrongful accusation,
The
as the only survivor is
Usual then questioned about
Suspects the incident that
occurred and this
typically doesn’t
happen.

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Convention Explanation Use/Develop/
Challenge
Our character is Using – We’re
haunted by a ghost using this as we
Ghosts/Spirits in her home. are doing
possession which
can be quite a
typical feature.
Mysterious things Using– We’re are
keep on happening using this
to the character, convention by
Mystery and as she included mystery
becomes aware of all the way through
this, these the plot.
happenings get
At the end of film, Developing –
worse.
our character is We’re developing
fully possessed. this because our
Possession But during the character is
opening sequence, possessed slowly
the character has a and is aware of
close encounter this possession.
with the ghost.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS
What I found
Inspirational about
this scene is the kind
of lighting they used
through out the more
dark scenes
emphasises the
emotions of the
actor /actress

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS
Black Swan
What I found inspirational
from this movie is the use
of close up shots which
was clearly present in
this film
It gives a clear picture of
the characters emotions
and helps the audience
to connect with the
character by seeing their
emotions so closely.

14. INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – THE RING E
 The film that inspired me most is ‘The Ring’
 I want to use a similar long shot in our opening sequence.
 It’s an effective way of keeping the audience’s attention to the puddle of
water whilst showing the character come up the stairs.
 I also want to use a fast zoom in our opening sequence.

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USE OF COSTUME AND MAKE-UP IN ‘THE RING’
 Quite frightening to look at and an effective way of scaring the audience.
 The lighting throughout the whole movie is kept more or less the same.
 This creates a very eerie and creepy atmosphere in the movie, common
in most horrors and thrillers.
 I want to use dark lighting in our opening sequences .

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS - THE HAUNTING IN
CONNECTICUT.
 Another film that inspired me was ‘The Haunting in Connecticut ’
 Its paranormal theme has inspired me to make my opening sequence
about a haunting.
 Slamming doors…
 It especially inspired me to set my opening sequence in a building that’s
haunted. E.g. a haunted house.
 I would like to use old newspaper
articles such as this to briefly show the
history of the area. 

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – ROSEMARY ’S BABY
 A scene from ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ also inspired me.
Close up of hand reaching into crib
Draws the audiences attention
to what she's doing.
.
Allows imagination to Close up of Rosemary’s
It never shows what face
run wild making the she sees, only her
audience uneasy. emphasises her
reaction. shock, and horror at
what she sees.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS - GOTHIKA
The particular scene I found inspirational about this film,
where the scenes where the ghost interacts with the
characters by leaving scratched out messages on their arms
saying ‘Not Alone’.
I thought that a
similar idea would be
a good addition to
our idea, as the
ghost tries to
communicate with
our character whilst
she sleeps.
I also took inspiration from the non-diegetic sounds, because they were
creepy and added to what was already a tense film.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – PARANORMAL
ACTIVITY
Throughout the whole of Paranormal
Activity, the characters use their own
camera to document what is happening to
them.
I liked the idea of this as it makes the
viewing experience more personal for the
viewer as they literally see what the
characters see.
I want to use this in our opening sequence
as the camera shots made it more exciting
for the viewer, and we want to add tense
excitement too.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – THE GRUDGE
 The inspiration that I took from this film was part of the
plot – that the ghost was trying to get revenge over her
death.
 I also felt that the setting added to the creepiness of the
film, and so I hope we can re-create this when we make
our opening sequence.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – CABIN FEVER
The camera shot for this The props of this
scene is a mini close up movie is very
shot of his face to disturbing for the
demonstrate fear, disgust audience as it has
and anxiety to the audience. disgusting images of
blood everywhere.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – CABIN FEVER
The movie has some kind of old
fashioned humour to it which
makes it more entertaining and
interesting to the audience.
In this scene the lighting was very
dim which makes it more scary
because it emphasis death, danger
and fear. It creates suspense to the
audience as they don’t know what is
going to happen next.

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INSPIRATIONAL FILMS – THE VILLAGE
A scene where a character This scene has a mid
discovers about the shot of a character who is
supernatural things illustrating fear and also
happening in the village in of the monster destroying
order to prove to the people things in the village.
that there is something
going on.

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THEME/CONCEPT
 An idea we had for the theme was Revenge and
the concept was Possession.
Injustice Ghosts
Grievance
Twists & Turns
Victims Enigma
Revenge &
Hidden Possession!
Vicious
identities
Ghouls Suspicious
circumstances
Unsuspecting Mysterious
Shocking
Someone who has
revelations
been wronged

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THEME/CONCEPT
Another idea we had for the theme was Justice and concept was Death
Murder & Manslaughter
Righteousness
Revenge
Moral
Rightness.
Vendetta
Justice & Death!
A Cause
Mystery
Decay
Supernatural
Life After
Death

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THEME/ CONCEPT
 These were our previous themes and concepts.
 WWW: We had a range of different words which helped
us when thinking of our opening sequence.
 EBI: We could have thought of more themes and
concepts.

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THEME/CONCEPT
 We did not change our themes or concepts
because it was suitable for what we wanted to do.
 We kept the theme revenge and the concept
possession because the keywords on that
brainstorm helped to provoke new ideas regarding
our opening sequence.

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THEME/CONCEPT
 As a group we have come up with a new idea as
our first draft was to long and where missing some
elements
 There were some bumps in the road as to the
ending of the sequence but after meetings we came
up with solutions

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RESEARCH OF TOPIC
 http://fspp.net/warn%20poss.htm
 On this website, I found all of the believed warning
signs of demonic possession and this all linked in
with what we had originally decided on for our
opening sequence.
 The warning signs were things like self mutilation,
changes in personality and attitude and blackouts in
memory.

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RESEARCH OF TOPIC
 On this website, I also found that the outward
manifestations of ghosts also linked in with our opening
sequence. The manifestations that we had already
chosen were listed on this website, and it included
things such as:
 Knocking, banging or pounding being heard in one
room.
 Electrical appliances turning on by themselves.
 A feeling of being watched.
 Scratching sounds being heard without an obvious
source.
 And objects seemingly moving by themselves.

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RESEARCH OF TOPIC
 http://www.yourghoststories.com/real-ghost-story.php?story=2298
 On this site I found out that a girl who had been possessed by a
demonic creature at the age of 12, was seeing shadows
appearing from walls, covering all over her, hearing mocking
noises and could see a white round ball rolling towards her
mother’s room and also hear noises when she is alone at home.
 She was possessed until the age of 22yrs but still had a strange
feeling that someone was watching her when she went to her
night shift at the mental home.

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IDEA DEVELOPMENT OPTION – OUR
PREVIOUS IDEAS. (THE WHOLE FILM)
 It starts with the opening sequence, where strange ghostly things are happening to the
main character.
 The main character slowly begins to find out information about who lived in her home
before her. She attempts to tell her family and friends but they dismiss it.
 The main character has a series of close encounters with the ghost. Whilst sleeping she
dreams of its life in the home she now inhabits.
 The ghost possess the main character slowly. Thinking she is on drugs, her family hosts
an intervention for her. At this intervention, she is fully possessed.
 Her family and friends, whilst trying to restrain her, collectively kill the main character and
burn her body. The cycle continues, with the audience being shown a family moving into
a newly built home where the main characters house used to be.

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IDEA DEVELOPMENT OPTION – OUR PREVIOUS
IDEAS. (THE OPENING SEQUENCE)
 The character is at her desk typing and researching ghosts, hauntings and the
history behind where her house is situated.
 Suddenly, her television turns on by itself, she grabs her camera to document
this strange experience.
 After turning off the television, she walks back to her desk, and the another
person’s reflection is seen by the audience as they walk past her television.
 She hears another a noise coming from the drawer behind her, she scrambles to
find out what it is. She finds an old photograph in the drawer that clearly doesn’t
belong to her of a young girl wearing a similar necklace to the character.
 She hears a scream or thump coming from downstairs, she rushes to find the
source of it and ends up in the bathroom. She sees the tap dripping and as she
turns it off, she finds that the sink is full of blood.

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IDEA DEVELOPMENT OPTION –PREVIOUS
IDEAS (THE WHOLE FILM)
 It starts with the opening sequence, where strange ghostly things are
happening to the main character.
 The main character slowly begins to find out information about who lived
in her home before her. She attempts to tell her family and friends but
they dismiss it.
 The main character has a series of close encounters with the ghost.
Whilst sleeping she dreams of its life in the home she now inhabits.
 The ghost possess the main character slowly. Thinking she is on
drugs, her family hosts an intervention for her. At this intervention, she is
fully possessed.
 Her family and friends, whilst trying to restrain her, collectively kill the
main character and dispose of her body in a house fire. The cycle
continues, with the audience being shown a family moving into a newly
built home where the main characters house used to be.

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IDEA DEVELOPMENT OPTION – OUR NEW
IDEAS (THE OPENING SEQUENCE)
 The character is at her desk typing and researching ghosts, hauntings
and the history behind where her house is situated.
 Suddenly, her television turns on by itself, she grabs her camera to
document this strange experience and this is seen from her point of view.
 After turning off the television, she walks back to her desk, and the
another person’s reflection is seen by the audience as they walk past her
television.
 She hears another a noise coming from the drawer behind her, she
scrambles to find out what it is. She finds an old photograph in the
drawer that clearly doesn’t belong to her of a young girl wearing a similar
necklace to the character.
 She hears a thump coming from downstairs, she rushes to find the
source of it, running through the corridors in her house she tracks the
noise down to the bathroom and she listens outside the door. As she
slowly reaches for the handle, someone else’s hand slams on the glass
door from the inside.

36. WHAT WENT WELL/EVEN BETTER IF…
 What Went Well:
-Our idea built up tension and suspense for the
audience
-It created enigma as it is not shown what is inside
her bathroom making noise.
 Even Better If:
-If was shorter as it went on for too long which
meant it was no longer an opening sequence but a
short film.
-Less information is given to the audience to create
even more enigma.

37. OUR NEW IDEA
 Footage from a night vision camera is shown, in which the character has her covers
pulled off whilst sleeping by the ghost and the lamp switches off.
 Zoom out to imply the character is watching the video from her laptop and is horrified
at what she sees . The door slowly opens and a gush of wind pushes the papers on
her desk.
 She gets up, closes the door and sits at her desk. The laptop then suddenly turns off
and a mysterious figure walks past behind her (seen by audience only). The door
opens violently.
 She stands up in fright and the curtains behind her open by themselves. She backs
away from her desk. Suddenly loud banging can be heard from inside her cupboard
scaring her.
 She reluctantly walks to the cupboard doors terrified and opens them. It is not seen
what is in their only her reaction. The camera zooms fast into her face and then a
blackout.

38. STORYBOARD

39. STORYBOARD
 We have now changed the storyboard as we have
changed the scrip
 Ideas have changed in our group adding and
removing ideas
 Ultimately we have come to a set decision with our
storyboard and made sure it ties in with the scrip in
meets our visions

40. SLIDE SHOT
 We have also changed the shots list as with our
first draft we had many shots but lacked in some
areas
 We had to use more match-on-action and zooms
and different transitions
 We hope to use a fast zoom at the end of our
sequence to heighten fear and enigma for the
audience
 As at the end the audience does not see what the
character sees

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ENIGMA
 The way we want to create enigma is through the
combination of sound and pace. The actress is never
fully calm which also keeps the audience on edge.
 The end of the opening sequence will leave the audience
wanting to know what happens next as the ending is
unexpected.
You cannot see what the baby
sees.

43. ENIGMA
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Black Swan
The opening sequence gives The opening sequence is every dramatic
You a view at one of the main And to many unclear which is a
Characters life. All seems Perfect portrayal of the whole movie in
Till a sudden turn of events The opening.
Enigma is given through the
Pace and wondering the reasons
For the turn of events

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ENIGMA
 We’ve improved our creation of Enigma from draft
one, because we have made the ending of our
opening sequence more thrilling and this helps to
create more enigma as the audience will want to
carry on watching to find out why the character is
being haunted and what will happen to her.