Results of ident questionnaire

This graph shows that my ident and jacks ident were the preferred idents of our target audience (15-21 year olds) we received comments about the idents and overall people liked aspects from both mine and jacks. In the end we chose jacks ident but made some improvements to it. 

An ident is an important thing to include in a film opening as it promotes the production and distribution company of the film, and gives the audience an idea of whether it is the right type of film for them. My group and I feel that it is something that we need to include in our film so that we have all the aspects of film openings. 

Video for ident questionnaire

This is the video of all the idents that me and my group created. We will show this to members of our target audience and ask them to choose their favourite one to go into our film opening.

Questionnaire of Fonts

We asked 15 people of our target audience which font they would prefer to see in a horror film opening. The two most popular fonts (options 1 and 2) are going to be one in our film opening and the other in our ident. The ident questionnaire will decide which font will be used for which purpose.

Storyboard

 

This is our storyboard showing the basic shots that we are going to have in our film opening. It tells us which order the shots are going in and the technical side of things, such as the type of shot e.g. medium close-up, what sound is going in the shots and what happens in the shot. It also has some basic ideas of which edits are going between shots. This will be our guide when we make the film opening.

Floor plan

 This is a rough design that we came up with of what the opening scene will look like. It also shows the path in which the characters take through the room in the opening.

Improved ident

This is my improved ident with a different effect on the picture and sound. This is one of the choices of ident that my group and I are considering.

My first ident

This is the first ident i made for my film opening for the production company. No sound yet.

Film Openings Powerpoint

This was a powerpoint I made showing examples of conventions in different film openings.

Film Pitch

This is the film pitch that my group and I presented. It shows our general film concept and who our target audience is. It then shows a couple of different typographies that we are thinking of using for our film as well as a couple of soundtracks for our film opening. 

Horror Film Opening Analysis 2

The Strangers - Horror film opening

 Shot 1 - This shot is of the production company's logo, this is a convention of a film opening as it gives the audience some information about who has made the film and is an advertisement for that company that will be seen by everyone who is about to watch the film.

 Shot 2 - This shot is an intertitle with a voice over reciting what it says on the screen. The voice is a low males voice to give what he is saying a creepy feel for the audience to know that the true events that the film is inspired by are bad ones. The colour of the text against the black background gives the line an eerie glow to it creating fear of what could happen next.

 Shot 3 - This shot is of a house in semi-darkness surrounded by trees. The semi-darkness shows that night time is coming and the dark is when the worst things happen in horror films. The house implies that whatever bad event that is going to happen is going to happen in the main characters home, this is supposed to scare the audience as the home is usually a place where people feel safest.

 Shot 4 - This shot is similar to shot 3 but now it is in total darkness apart from a couple of eerie street lights. This creates an enigma of not knowing what is hiding in the shadows, this is a convention of the genre horror.

 Shot 5 - This shot is of a car with a smashed front windscreen, in the background there are two boys on bikes looking at the car. There is also non-diegetic sound of voices talking on the phone of a woman talking to emergency services. The smashed car shows that the bad event has already happened and that it was someone being violent towards the main characters. The woman's voice sounds scared and she is talking about someone being in the house, this phone call is playing over the top of the present scene to show that what she is talking about is in the past.

 Shot 6 - This shot is of the two boys walking towards an open door of the house. This door has been forced open due to the hole in the top of it. The non-diegetic phone call is carrying on in the background to give an explanation to the audience as to what might have happened in this house.

 Shot 7 - This shot has a spinning record but its not playing anything showing that its just kept going until it run out of music. This implies that the person playing the record was interrupted suddenly and never got to switch the player off. It also creates that eerie feel for the audience as it could also mean that someone is still in the house and they don't know whats coming next.

 Shot 8 - This shot is of an engagement ring box that is closed implying that someone was planning to propose but never got round to it. This gives the audience some information about the main characters, a man and a woman who are together and were going to get engaged before someone interrupted their night. The trail of rose petals looks similar to a trail of blood giving connotations of violence as well as romance.

 Shot 9 - This shot shows a kitchen knife with blood on it and a rose petal. This shot also has connotations of violence and romance and that this couples relationship was doomed. The blood is a main convention of the genre horror and confirms to the audience that there will be violence in the film.