2. In what ways does your horror film opening use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real horror film openings? Another convention we used is symbolism which isn’t often used. The Jekyll & Hyde book was used as a tribute to our main influence for the horror film. However we did challenge two conventions by one not including any dialogue in the opening and having the opening scene during the day where as typical horror films have night openings . In our horror film opening ‘Gemini’ we mainly made use of the conventions of real horror film openings. The conventions we followed are eerie music which we used to build and keep tension. We included a black out where only sound effects occurred. Tension was used to keep the audience thinking and we used camera movements, tilt shot and extreme close ups to give a mysterious and dark mood.
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7. How did you attract / address your audience? Camera movements were also key when it came to attracting the audience. We wanted to have clear steady shots so that the audience knew what was happening in each scene, So the use a tripod was a must. In most of our scenes we achieved this goal however there were some scenes where the camera work was ‘shaky’. Music was another of our key elements to attract the audience. We knew that the music we needed was eerie, slow paced, continuous and of course copyright free. We found various tracks through the use of search engines and sound effects sites and decided on 2 songs and 4 special effects which we would use in the opening. We then began editing the songs down to just the parts which we needed and then matched them with the video footage so that there was no obvious transition from one track to another.
