Prom night opening sequence

This is the opening sequence for prom night. It's similar to what we hope to achieve in our opening sequence as the beginning is set in a house. It uses unusual font, as it is a classic italic font. It starts with introducing the production, then the title of the film comes up. The music in the background sounds as though its appealing to younger audiences. It begins set in the evening, which gives a sense of edginess to start the film, which is what we want to create in ours.

Jeepers Creepers Title Sequence

This title sequence is effective as it shows the rural surroundings and it makes you the viewer more involved, the use of basic text is good and not to over the top fading in and out. The way 'jeepers creepers' seems to appear and come further towards the audience creates a tense atmosphere and gives us the impression that the film will be thrilling. The non-diegetic sound links well to a horror film as it's uneasy and not too powerful. In addition, the way the scene and characters are introduced is embracing. For example, the van at the beginning of the scene was conveying an angry and dangerous feeling to the film.

target audience

From the research carried out we have decided to make our film an 15 certificate.
Our decision was made by the research we used from IMDB.com, we picked a variety of films showing a similarity to ours and found that they are all certified for persons 15-18 and over. We have attached a link to each of the titles showing the percentage of males and females 18-29 who are the targeted audience.
The Strangers
Blair witch project
Wrong turn
Hide and Seek
We do no have a specific target gender because the percents between males and females are fairly close therefore we want to appeal to both genders.
However, we will be more specific with the ages, as it is shown on IMDB.com that persons under the age of 18 have a higher percentage in watching films like this. So we have decided we will be aiming to grab the attention of males and females aged
15-24.

Cabin Fever Title Sequence

This is the title sequence for Cabin fever. We think that this is a good title sequence as it has good camera shots and the music is effective for the reason that it makes the film seem more Erie.

Wrong turn title sequence

This is the title sequence to wrong turn, its a long opening sequence but uses good font to create a good tension. We've used this film sequence to relate to our opening sequences as it uses woods.

synopsis

The theme of our film will be based on a horror.

In our opening scene we first thought to have two people sticking photos, of our main male character in a scrap book. As the book slams shut our production company will appear on the front cover.

We then thought to have a sound over of laughter as a black screen is shown, we thought this would make the film intriguing as it will appear quite creepy. The next shot will be of the main male character leaving a Halloween party, again this links back to the theme of horror. We follow the male character home noticing there are two outlines of people in the distance. As he makes his way into his house the door shuts and soon after there is a knock. We have decided to make this shot a close up as it is significant to our film. As he answer the door , we are adding a shot of a girl who is unknown to the audience, crying, this is going to be a long shot as he invites her in (at this part of the film of the opening sequence the male character does not know the female who is crying). After inviting her in, it will be clear that she appears to have lost the person she was with, at this part in the film there will be another knock at the door, as he goes to answer, looking slightly confused as its quite early in the morning, he catches a glimpse of someone running passed the window. The male character shouts out for the girls hes just met and in response there will be faint laughter. He calls again for her and hears slamming of doors, he goes back into the room where he left her, to find the back doors wide open. to end this two minute sequence we are going to add a quick extreme close up of the male characters eyes as he turns to see two females standing with the knife which was at the beginning of the first shot. we will take quick single shots of each of their eyes, which will add intensity to the film.