2. Genre and Target audiences
The genre for our film is going to be a psychological horror. For this we
are going to have to work on the audiences feelings and fears. For our
title sequence, we wont include anything too graphic, although we have
based the film around the target audience of people aged 15+ as we feel
we are of a similar age group, therefore we are more aware of their fears
and their weaknesses and are then able to use this information to our
advantage.
3. Budget
The budget of our film will be relatively low as the technology,
equipment and scenery used throughout the making of our film, isn’t
cost effected. In terms of location we haven’t a specific location as our
title sequence is a montage of different images/shots.
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5. Purpose of the sequence
We intent to make the sequence play on the target audiences fears and
weaknesses by getting them psychologically involved with the storyline, this
means making the sequence more believable rather then fictional characters
such as monsters, aliens etc.
Being a psychological horror, we intend to create a fast paced and intense
mood as this will set the mood for the rest of the film, this will be done
through the music and the fast cuts in and out.
The whole purpose of the title sequence is to give a introduction to what the
film as a whole is going to be about. So, the title sequence should give the
audience a taste of the mood, genre, characters, story, location, what and
how.
The whole purpose of the title sequence is to give a introduction to what the
film as a whole is going to be about. So, the title sequence should give the
audience a taste of the mood, genre, characters, story, location, what and
how.
Our aim is to make the title sequence play on the target audiences fears and
weaknesses by getting them psychologically involved with the storyline, this
is to enhance a greater connection with the audience making them to thrive
to watch on.
8. Practical Challenges
During the making of our title sequence we will face several practical
challenges. This includes the making of our props – we intend to create
the killers journal, use knives and fake blood to make the material more
realistic.
we plan on using a deserted shed in the middle of a horses paddock to do
our photography and filming.
This would include dressing the scene up in order to create the effect
we’re going for, we will do this by adding our own props and set the
scene ourselves.
The other type of practical challenges we will face is ensuring our editing
and effects we use fit the genre of our film ideas, we will do this by
conveying the ideas through text, colours, imagery, music and effects.
9. Titles
For our titles we intend to make them part of our scene, for example we
will write the titles on paper, or make them with everyday objects, then
photograph or film them and edit them into our title sequence. Some
examples of this are:
We will use dim lighting, a old worn
out journal and dark effects to
convey an uncomfortable,
unnatural effect to our audience.
10. Our Ideas
All photographs used are primary images, taken from different angles
and locations. We aim to use a montage of photographs in order to create
out title sequence, we will include some filming to link up images and
their meanings. We don’t plan on revealing a large amount of the
storyline in this sequence, our aim is to leave the viewer intrigued.
We will try to differentiate our sequence from the other typical horrors,
for example ‘chasing’ or ‘stalking’ is used very often in horror films, and
to make ours different we will need to think of another event that would
build enough tension to get the viewer scared but also intrigued to watch
more.
Our idea for this would be to make the victim, unknowingly, walk
straight into the murders trap, using things such as noises of crying
children or something of the sort, to almost fool the victim into being
where the killer wants them.
