Pre-production (scripting)

We have now started working on our pre-production for our opening sequence. We have begun by having  an  idea of what our opening sequence is going to include, by primarily looking at the genre and the story line. We chose the genre to be a horror film as we all had similar tastes in film.We started to base our scripting ideas from a psychological horror called insidious. Below was our starting idea for the opening sequence.This was adapted to fit the idea which we had.

Scripting

I wrote out a rough script of what would happen in the opening sequence. Then me and my group had a meeting going through the script to add and take away things. Below is the script and the minuets notes:

Script of the Opening Sequence

Part 2:

Shot of the door. Door opens by itself- looking into the room. Closed curtains, there is a girl sleeping in the bed darkness apart from the night light. There is a focus shots looking at the jewelry box and the sound box. Music Box pops up. Close up shots of the girl sleeping.

Part 3:

There’s a happy dream of very bright home videos from when the girl is younger- happier music used from the sound box.

Part 4:

There’s a shot of the girls sleeping with happy facial expressions and then a dark Smokey hand coming up and getting closer to the girls neck changing her facial expressions to more scared and upset. The sound of the music box becomes more scary and distorted - before the hand appears. Just before the hand touches the girl, it changes to black and the title of the film appears in blood red smoke. It then suddenly jumps back to the girl, where she wakes up and gasps in fright (there isn't a scream). The hand has disappeared… (Was it a dream? Was it real?)

Minutes-

Talked about the script J

Took out first scene – decided opening shot of door

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