The document discusses potential plot ideas, lighting ideas, and setting ideas for a horror film opening. For the plot, it considers having innocent girls as victims and explores different antagonist and capture scenarios. The lighting ideas focus on creating a dull, bleak, and mysterious atmosphere using techniques like misty lighting and moonlight. Setting ideas include potentially scary locations like cornfields, woods, old houses, open fields, and schools to establish a dark and spooky mood.

1. PLOT IDEAS
We know that we definitely want to include innocent girls as the
victims in our horror film opening as this is a typical convention but
although it is commonly seen in horror films, we think that it still
always adds to the shock factor.
These girls were placed in a
field because of their strange
behaviour, and their survival
becomes the plot?
The girls have been
captured by their boarding
school headmaster?
The girls are the
antagonists?
The antagonist is female?
(Going against a typical
convention of horror film
antagonists).
Are the girls young or
teenagers to add to the
shock factor?
The female girls have ran away
and have been guided astray by
the antagonist male character?

2. LIGHTING IDEAS
We know that the lighting should definitely be dull and bleak for our
horror film opening as that’s what the typical conventional lighting of a
horror film is.
Adding a sense of colour
every now and then, to add a
sense of fantasy and dreams?
Misty lighting so it’s hard to
make out what is
happening at first?
Adding moonlight to
connote a sense of
innocence?
Bland and bleak colours to
add to the sense of
death, loneliness and
despair?
Lots of black and dark lighting to
form darkness and detachment
from the real world?
Set in cloudy weather at
dusk so there is
naturally bleak lighting?

3. SETTING IDEAS
We know that the setting should be significantly scary, and somewhere
that you would not want to be alone. It should have a dark and spooky
feel to create a daunting mood and atmosphere for our horror film
opening.
A cornfield? Crows are often
situated in cornfields and
they are very often seen in
horror films.
The woods? Things such as
the trees and mud would
all contribute in making the
setting atmospheric.
An old house, connoting
the idea of
abandonment and could
link to the character’s
situation?
A non-stereotypical horror
film setting, such as a
normal house and normal
surroundings?
A large field, where it is
so open that there is
nowhere to run?
A school? This would
add to the sense of
innocent school girls
being targeted.