My group and I discussed our final aspects and ideas of our opening sequence to a horror film. My main contribution to the ideas was the title and fonts of the film. I decided that the title 'Our House' would be effective in interesting the audience.As it is a psychological horror quite frequently realistic and life-like settings are used to portray the innocence of the characters and unexpectedness of the horror that occurs. The title reflects the setting and doesn't give away the horror of the film at first glance, similarly to the fact that the characters do not understand the horror that lives in the house when they first move in. I thought a good idea for the font of this title would be a type-writer style as it connotes the old haunted house that the girl is unknowingly living in.The colour will be white or transparent in colour as it will be almost like a fog or a mist representing the paranormal activity, spirits and voices that will add to the horror of the opening sequence.
As a group we decided that the location will be a house, the front door will be used at the start of the clip as an establishing shot and the main horrors will unfold throughout different settings in the house such as the basement, halls and bedrooms. These settings will incorporate the minor horrors of the house such as creaking floorboards, slamming doors and noises. One of the main props will be a mirror which will be looked into by the main character and here she will realised there is more horror to come as she sees a dark figure in the background. Other household items will be used to build the tension and make it more realistic, such as curtains, doors and floorboards.
The Representation of the characters will mainly be focused on the victim of the horror(final girl) who will look like an innocent girl-next-door type of character but will actually be subject to the horror that unfolds in her house. The perpetrator of the events will not be represented as an actual actor or character as it is a psychological horror so it will mainly consist of voices and paranormal activity other than actual actions of a character.
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