Planning Film Opening - Planning/Generating Ideas

Main Task - Video
Genres
- Horror
- Comedy
- Action
- Adventure
- Crime Drama
- Thriller
- Romance
- Sci-Fi
- Period Drama

Horror
2 Teenagers home alone, having a sleepover.
A psychotic murderer out to kill both of them for their parents wealth. 

Thriller
One person camping out in a forest. Hears footsteps and find out they're not alone.
Has to try to escape the forest. 

Adventure
Young teenager adventuring the forest/city.

Horror (Sleepover) - Movie Opening (Rough Example)
Opening - Scene starts with the two teenagers laughing in a living room with the TV on and candles in the background. The teenagers become bored and decide to play tarot cards. The teens pull the Death, Hanging man and Tower cards to then be greeted by a thunderstorm erupting in the background. Scenes of a mysterious figure can be seen in the background through the windows of the house. Throughout the opening there will be crosscuts of the mysterious figure entering the area and the garden of the house. 

After a short while, the TV begins to static and the candles flicker. One of the teens start to panic whilst the other brushes it off and tries to calm the other down. TV now switches off completely  and both teenagers become anxious. 

The murderer eventually breaks into the house without the teenagers knowing. He begins to taunt and torture them mentally.

Crime/ Thriller - (Rebecca's Idea)

Detective has been investigating the crime of two girls being kidnapped for 11 years. One returns but the family are questioning if this is the right girl. The detective tries to find all three men that are involved and includes his allies to help, but can they be trusted?




Opening - The scene starts with the detective looking at images of the missing girls and looking at the possible suspects. Then the scene changes to a girl in a forest, struggling to walk and end up in a town and collapses. Towns people send her to the local hospital. Diegetic sounds are playing (footsteps and crunching leaves); and non-diegetic sounds in the background (slow, creepy music).

The girl is taken to the family and tries to settle in; there are interviewers outside the house interrogating the family. The family are shocked to see the girl returning and conflict occurs within the household between the parents as one thinks that she isn't the daughter; the dad is always out and the brother is in a gang and always getting arrested.

The detective tries to get answers out of the girl and find the men who were involved, however the girl doesn't want to talk to anyone and isolates herself away from everyone.

The girl fakes a death and runs away as she can't cope being back at home, leaving the family in distraught and horror from the incident. However, the detective still tries to find the men that were involved and doesn't believe that the girl is actually dead, therefore he tries to find her too. He finds clues from newspapers and travels to Iraq and Germany to find the three soldiers that took the girls.

Ryan's opening idea 

A group of teenagers are at a large house party to celebrate on of their 16th birthdays. The scene opens with them all drinking and speaking about the history of their friendship. The scene then cuts to them cleaning up after the party. one of the friends then finds a mysterious looking book that has strange ancient symbols on the cover. One of the friends says to leave the book alone but the friend who discovered it takes it with them and reads if. 

A week after reading a selection of passages from the book the friends experience consistent bad luck until one of the friends decide to interrogate the  friend who read the book. The next day after rhis the friend mysteriously disappears and the scene cuts to them appearing to be possessed by evil spirits and wreaking havoc amongst their friendship group. 

the scene ends with a news report which is informing of the deaths of the three teenagers who were involved with this book and its evil history.   

Evaluation 
As a group, we chose to choose my Horror film opening of "The Sleepover" as the plot for our main video task. There were many reasons as to why. For example: One of these reasons was because of the feedback from other pupils. They said that my Horror idea was very interesting and different to what everyone else presented in the class which is why we chose to pursue this idea. It was also the lowest budget idea as everything that we need to film is already owned by my group and I. 

Roles
All:
- Props
- Schedule
- Resultant Footage
- Script

Rebecca:
- Risk Assessments
- Written aspect of Storyboard

Ryan:
- Synopsis
- Camerman
- Holder of Call Sheets

Tim:
- Director
- Editor (Treatment)
- Locations Sheet
- Visual aspect of Storyboard

Planning for Shoots
Hair and Makeup:
- Teens will have natural makeup, very minimal to minimise pores and imperfections to minimise distractions.
- They may be hit or bruised.
-Killer will be wearing a mask so therefore, makeup is not needed for him. 

Props:
Killer's Props:
- Sharp Blade (Toy Weapon)
- Torch

Teens Props:
- Phones
- Snacks/Drinks
- Torch

Costumes:
Killer
- The killer will be wearing dark clothing, a mask and various other accessories to make him more of an ominous character.

Teens
- The teens will be wearing pyjamas to suit the verisimilitude of the film. Their makeup will be minimal and natural.

Locations:
- A House (Tim's home)
- A large Field (Directly behind the house)