This document provides guidance for brainstorming ideas for an opening sequence (OTS) trailer. It instructs the reader to create a mood board representing their trailer idea and includes a guide with questions to consider like the title, characters, locations, and target audience. It then defines what a mood board is and provides examples. The reader is tasked with producing a mood board for their horror trailer conveying key concepts through images, text, and materials related to locations, characters, themes, and other elements. They are to deconstruct their mood board by explaining each item and its meanings and how it relates to these concepts. The homework is to complete the mood board and deconstruction by a deadline and upload it to their blog to present

1. OTS Brainstorm
To formulate ideas for your opening
sequence
To create a mood board to represent
your trailer idea

2. Using this guide brainstorm your OTS
idea
Title:
Synopsis of what
happens in OTS
What enigma codes will
you include?
Who will your
characters be?
What are they
like?
Which locations
will you use?
What genre
conventions will you
use?
What kind of
editing will you
use and when?
What production
companies will
you use? If your
own, what will
they be called?
Who will your
target
audience be?
What rating
will you give
your film and
why? (visit
BBFC website)

3. Produce a mood board for your OTS
What is a mood board?
• an arrangement of images, materials, pieces
of text, etc. intended to evoke or project a
particular style or concept.
• "we put together a mood board with key
images and words that best convey the
essence of the brand”

4. Examples

5. Produce a mood board to represent
your horror trailer’s key concepts
• Include images, text and material which
connote:
– Locations/ settings
– Characters
– Themes
– Sound
– MES (colours, lighting, props etc.)
– What are the meanings behind these images/
text/materials?

6. Deconstruct your mood board
• Explain each item/aspect of your mood board. What
are the denotations and connotations of each sign and
how does it relate to:
• Locations/ settings
• Characters
• Themes
• Lighting
• Sound
• Colour tones
• MES
• meaning

7. Homework
• Complete your mood board and the
deconstruction by Friday 30/1/15
• Upload it to your blog and be prepared to
present it to the class.