Inspirational Films – The Ring• The film that inspired me most is ‘The Ring’

• I want to use a similar long shot in our opening sequence.• It’s an effective way of keeping the audience’s attention to the

puddle of water whilst showing the character come up the stairs.

• I also want to use a fast zoom in our opening sequence.

Use of costume and make-up in ‘The Ring’

• Quite frightening to look at and an effective way of scaring the audience.

• The lighting throughout the whole movie is kept more or less the same.

• This creates a very eerie and creepy atmosphere in the movie, common in most horrors and thrillers.

• I want to use dark lighting in our opening sequences .

Inspirational Films - The Haunting In Connecticut.

• Another film that inspired me was ‘The Haunting in Connecticut ’

• Its paranormal theme has inspired me to make my opening sequence about a haunting.

• Slamming doors…

• It especially inspired me to set my opening sequence in a building that’s haunted. E.g. a haunted house.

• I would like to use old newspaper articles such as this to briefly show the history of the area.

Inspirational Films – Rosemary’s Baby

• A scene from ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ also inspired me.Close up of hand reaching into crib

Draws the audiences attention to what she's doing.

. Allows imagination to run

wild making the audience uneasy.

It never shows what she sees, only her reaction.

Close up of Rosemary’s faceemphasises her shock, and horror at what she sees.

Inspirational Films - GothikaThe particular scene I found inspirational about this film, where the scenes where the ghost interacts with the characters by leaving scratched out messages on their arms saying ‘Not Alone’.

I thought that a similar

idea would be a good

addition to our idea, as

the ghost tries to

communicate with our

character whilst she

sleeps.

I also took inspiration from the non-diegetic sounds, because they were creepy and added to what was already a tense film.

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Inspirational Films – Paranormal Activity

Throughout the whole of Paranormal Activity,

the characters use their own camera to

document what is happening to them.

I liked the idea of this as it makes the viewing

experience more personal for the viewer as

they literally see what the characters see.

I want to use this in our opening sequence as

the camera shots made it more exciting for the

viewer, and we want to add tense excitement

too.

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Inspirational Films – The Grudge• The inspiration that I took from this film was

part of the plot – that the ghost was trying to get revenge over her death.

• I also felt that the setting added to the creepiness of the film, and so I hope we can re-create this when we make our opening sequence.

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Inspirational Films – Cabin Fever

The camera shot for this scene is a mini close up shot of his face to demonstrate fear, disgust and anxiety to the audience.

The props of this movie is very disturbing for the audience as it has disgusting images of blood everywhere.

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In this scene the lighting was very dim which makes it more scary because it emphasis death, danger and fear. It creates suspense to the audience as they don’t know what is going to happen next.

The movie has some kind of old fashioned humour to it which makes it more entertaining and interesting to the audience.

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Inspirational Films – The Village

A scene where a character discovers about the supernatural things happening in the village in order to prove to the people that there is something going on.

This scene has a mid shot of a character who is illustrating fear and also of the monster destroying things in the village.

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Idea Development Option• From draft one to the final draft, we discussed a

number of alternate endings.

• Having tried and tested quite a few, such as a hand slamming on a glass door, her being tracked from behind and locked in her bedroom.

• We decided on the last option, of locking her in her room whilst something unseen approaches her from behind.

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Theme/Concept• An idea we had for the theme was

Revenge and the concept was Possession.

Revenge & Possession!

Ghosts

MysteriousUnsuspecting

Someone who has been wronged

Suspicious circumstances

Enigma

Vicious

Twists & Turns

Shocking revelations

Victims

Hidden identities

Ghouls

Injustice

Grievance

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Theme/ConceptAnother idea we had for the theme was Justice and concept was Death

Justice & Death!

Righteousness

Moral Rightness.

Decay

A Cause

Life After DeathSupernatural

Mystery

Vendetta

Revenge

Murder & Manslaughter

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Theme/ Concept

• These were our previous themes and concepts.

• WWW: We had a range of different words which helped us when thinking of our opening sequence.

• EBI: We could have thought of more themes and concepts.

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Theme/Concept

• We did not change our themes or concepts because it was suitable for what we wanted to do.

• We kept the theme revenge and the concept possession because the keywords on that brainstorm helped to provoke new ideas regarding our opening sequence.

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ResearchWe did a lot of research into the paranormal prior to making this our opening sequence. Our research included researching horror/thriller films and seeing how they portrayed the paranormal.

We also did online research, looking at websites such as: http://fspp.net/warn%20poss.htmAnd http://www.yourghoststories.com/real-ghost-story.php?story=2298

Whilst doing this research, we learnt about outward manifestations which is a central idea to our opening sequence.

Opening manifestations include: • Knocking, banging or pounding being heard in one

room.• Electrical appliances turning on by themselves.• A feeling of being watched.• Scratching sounds being heard without an obvious

source.• And objects seemingly moving by themselves.

Research

Idea Development Option• From draft one to the final draft, we discussed a

number of alternate endings.

• Having tried and tested quite a few, such as a hand slamming on a glass door, her being tracked from behind and locked in her bedroom.

• We decided on the last option, of locking her in her room whilst something unseen approaches her from behind.

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