2. Why horror?
• We chose horror because we thought it would be
the most interesting genre to choose to make our
opening. This is because we could make it as
twisted and scary as we like because it is a horror.
• The conventions within horror consist of a dark
location (tend to be filmed in the night), blood,
gore and spooky atmosphere.
• We will film our opening around 4:30-5:00
therefore it will be reasonably dark and gloomy
and give it that scary atmosphere.
3. The name - CLOWN
As a group we decided a variety of different titles we could possibly have for our
film. We then broke down our favourite three which were CLOWN, The Red
Nose Murderer and Slaughtered. Out of all of the ones we have chosen we have
chosen CLOWN for the main title because we think that it is short, simple and
effective.
4. Opening Synopsis
Within the opening of the scene Ava and Noah will be sitting underneath a slide
in the park. It will be reasonably dark and you will be able to identify that they’re
a couple straight away by their actions and positioning. The camera will then
focus on the swings and the roundabout swinging and spinning, you will then
hear the girl being scared whilst the boy is laughing and joking acting as if he
can handle it. The couple will be filming themselves on a camera joking around
and then the audience see the clown in there camera in the background.
In the opening I want the suspense to be high and the camera to be following
the clown to make the audience to be on edge.
As well as the camera following the clown we decided as a group there should
be snippets of a room with newspaper articles and pictures stuck to a wall of
the Clown suggesting that the Clown has been in trouble before.
The opening will end on the clown getting the knife out you don’t see him stab
the boy because you don’t want to reveal too much and we learnt this
throughout thinking of our opening.
5. Names of the Characters
•
We chose our names of the couple by looking at the top 10 boy
and girl names and picking names out of them. Then going around
the class and asking 14 people to pick a boy and girls name. The
outcome was Noah and Ava.
Boy
Jacob
Mason
Ethan
Noah
William
Liam
Tally
|| 2
|1
|||||5
|||||| 6
Girl
Tally
Sophia
|1
Emma
Isabella || 2
Olivia
||| 3
Ava
||||||| 7
Abigail
|| 2
6. COMPANY LOGO
To create this logo we analyzed 3 existing horror production
company logos and tried to combine all three together bearing in
mind the colours, sound and style used.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJec3J_osDM
7. Planning for shoots
COSTUME –
AVA – A short dress with tights and flat pumps will be given to the female actress
by Demi. The outfit will be feminine and under the category of ‘girly’.
NOAH – The male outfit will consist of jeans, loose t-shirt and trainers. This outfit
will be owned by the male actor and he will simply be able to get it from his
wardrobe.
CLOWN – The clown will be wearing a smart suit which as already agreed by the
male actor he will be bringing himself as he already owns it. Shannon owns the
clown mask so she can simply bring this to the opening.
