Audience Response

The vast majority of the audience that viewed our opening sequence all said that most of our sequence did connote that of a horror film. For example a classic shot of moving the camera slighlty to the right to see the evil character, that had not appeared in the last shot and no evidence that anyone was there, they came from no where making it frightening and making the audience jump. Another aspect that the audeince liked was the shot reverse shot of the evil charcter stabbing the good charcter, just as she lunges to attack, the camera goes staright to the close up shot of the male character being stabbed. The next shot afterwards was another point that the audience commented greatly on, just after the male character had been stabbed he went as if to fall down to the floor, the match on action changed so the audience could see it through the male characters eyes. Most of the audience said this was a good piece of editing and it seemed very natural and it felt like they were the ones who were falling.

Film Opening Sequence

This is our horror film opening sequence which we have finally finished. Everything is edited, all the music has gone in. We have had some technical difficulties which we have overcome.

If I had to do this again I would try and make it scarier by filming in a darker setting, even if it did take longer. The music i think goes really well, almost perfect for the atmosphere setting. I think the darker setting would have connoted a more scarier mood, with the audience being frightened more.

What am proud of most is the final few shots where Nick has been stabbed and the continuity where you see him start to fall and it the cuts (match on action) to him falling from his eyes, then to use the camera shutter as the eye lids slowly closing and becoming blurry, as if they were his eyes.

Almost there

Our opening sequence is finally complete all we have to do is upload it onto the blog and finish a few more things on the blog and we are complete

16 seconds of audio

This is the 16s of audio that we would have put in, but we felt that it did not go with the mood of the rest of the film.

Film Poster

This image is what have been created by Chris to use as an advertisement for our film if it became an actual film. We used a picture that we thought would look the best to show of the location, both of the actors. It also connotes dominance to Eva who standing above Nick as if she is the one in control of the decisions.

First Cut- Analysis

This is our first cut of our film, it has been edited down to fit into the 2 minute rule. We believe that the film denotes the horror genre that we first set out to achieve. We were going to introduce the start of the argument during the 16 seconds of credits near the beginning of the film, but unfortunately the audio that we recorded did not fit very well with the conversation as in the audio we recorded it was in a quiet indoor room, whereas the filming was done in a cold windy enviroment with the noise of traffic in the background. So we decided to take the audio argument out of the film, and we thought the film still connoted the horror that was intended. This means that in those 16 seconds we have credits coming up and just the continuous music we have created.

The Music that was created goes with the genre of the film. It goes continuously just like the opening of Halloween, that we reasearched. The music also has the increased diagetic sound when we wanted the audience to jump, or be scared, to add an emotion of shock.

Killed

The second image is what we will add into the film opening sequence as a flashback of the victim that has already been killed.