Idea's for the opening of my fiction film.

Idea 1.
One idea that could be good to film my opening, is to be in a town that is completely empty on a musky grey day. This would give a more real life atmosphere and setting to my horror genre.
As i am doing my fiction film about Zombies, it would make it seem like a more real life experience, like this human disease could actually happen.
The film will start of with a kind of speech at the start explaining how people turned into zombies and how there are few survivers etc and then the camra will do a pan of zombie in the town street and then it will zoom into a shop where there will be 6 survivors who are trying to avoid from getting hurt or attacked by these zombies. Then after this, the younger girl forgets that if the zombie see light or a glow, they will charge for it, so what she does is light a candle and walks up to the shop window and then all the zombies turn their head and stare at the window she is in and then they charge towards the window, and then breaks into the shop they are all in and then manage to attack one of the survivers, and then you see all of the other survivers fun away or trying to kill zombies, and then it stops there.

Idea 2.
At the start of my opening, i could do like a 20 second speech at the start whilst there is different camera angles of zombies, and explain how this human disease has happened. After this i could do a pan shot off loads of zombies in a street and as it is doing this you can hear one of the characters speaking through a walky talky.After, the the camera can then a zoom into a medium close up of the house where the voice is coming from. The camera then switches to a medium close up to one of the characters talking through a walky talky inside the house. The camera then does a horizontal tracking from the charaters face to the other survivers who are all huddled up on the floor scared. After this the camera does a verticle tracking from the survivers who are sitting on the floor to the main leader character who is standing in a door way. The lead surviver then sits with the rest and they then discuss a way to get out of the house as they have hardly got any food or water to keep them alive, then the main leader starts to get things togeter.. In the background you see a young character light up a torch and walks up to the window which is behind the lead character.you then see the young character move the curtain with the torch in their hand, then all of a sudden one of the other survivers shouts dont go by the window with light!  This would be an over the shoulder shot of the lead character with one of the characters in the background shouting out. after this there could be a forward tracking towards the young character in the window where you see her reflection in it, the with a thud you see a zombie jump up at the window and then some how zombies will manage to get through into the house and then starts chasing people. After this, you see all the survivers trying to get away for freedom but unfortunately you see one character who has got caught and a zombie is eating them, and then you see a close up of the eating zombies face as he makes a wierd crawl nose, and then it just cuts there.

Idea 3.
the opening of my zombie film, could start off in a forest. They are in the middle of no where, but they have all managed to find shelter where the zombies cant get to them. They all huddle up inside a cave that was in the forest, but they need to find a way to get them food and water as they have ran out. So what happens is, the lead character and another one goes outside the cave and goes looking for food and water. Then, it goes back to the cave where the rest of the characters are but the other 2 have taken ages, so the characters then decide to go and look for them but there is no sign of them anywhere. All of a sudden, one character looks through a bush, and finds a wierd looking zombie eating one of the characters, and they scream and cuts there.



The idea that we have chosen, is idea 2. We have chose this as it is more easier and simpler for us to do as we have most of the props that are needed for this. We have started to draw up a story bored that will help us plan out the filming etc. We have also drawn up a timeline, so that it all fits in, in the two minutes we have.

Storyboards:

Timeline:

The storyboard and timeline will help us to visualise the whole filming through different stages and sections at different time. It will also help us as camerapersons to understand how the film is to be shot.
For each of the timelines, we gave all of the characters who are participating in our film, a copy so they have knowledge of the timing themselves.

Character Profiles for my opening of a fiction film.

I did some research into how i want my characters to look, in order to make a good affective horror for my two minute opening of a fiction film. The website i designed my characters on is -

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/289/5/5/anime_face_maker_2_by_gen8-d30uny4.swf

This helped me by creating different features on each of my specific characters.

The avatars below show what type of characters i want, to be in my horror opening.

Name: Harry.

Gender: Male

Species: Zombie (was human)

Age:21

Occupation: Employee at a local supermarket, has worked there for 4 years.

Info: He likes eating steak, always thinks about himself, he loves to play football, he has a pretty girlfriend who has gone missing.

Name: Jenny
Gender: Female
Species: Zombie (was human)
Age:18
Occupation: Full time manager at the carephone warehouse, work there for two years and does outstanding work.
Info: She likes to go night clubbing, going to the spa every sunday, and loves relaxing at home with her boyfriend who she has now eaten.

Name: Charlie
Gender: Male.
Species: Human
Age: 16
Occupation: Goes to college doing music technology, has a part time job at McDonalds.
Info: loves music, he is very lazy, always seems to be down in the dumps.

Name: Anna

Gender: Female

Species: Human

Age:20

Occupation: Full Time employee at Top Shop, has worked there for 2 years.

Info: Loves fashion and make-up, likes spending time with her friends, she likes to go on hot holidays.

Name: Ray
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Age: 21
Occupation: Full time employee at BMW, has work there for two years.
Info: Loves himself, always trys to impress girls, very strong, and clever.

Name: Shelly
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Age: 14
Occupation: In full time education at high school.
Info: Shelly is Anna's little sister, she also likes fashion, loves doing girly things with her friends.

Opening of a fiction film. Questionnaire report.

For my two minute opening of my fiction film, i did a questionnaire to see what other people prefer, in different types on genres of a movie such as what they would rather expect to see in a horror etc..
Here is the questionnaire that i have produced.

1. What genre do you prefer watching?

• ROM-COM.          
• Horror. 
• Thriller.                                      

2. What makes a good horror?

• Blood                   
• Killer                     
• Scary

3. What kind of affects makes a good thriller?

• Explosions.
• Natural Causes.
• Crime.

4. Would it make ROM-COM'S better, if their stereotypes changed? (i.e blond pretty girls to natural brunettes)


5. Does the setting matter in genres of films?


6. Is it better if horrors seemed more real life, rather than made-up (or fake) ?


7. Do you think that films about average people are better than extraordinary?

• Yes.
• No.

8. Do you fund films in the present day more relatable and therefore better?


9. Do you think that a horror or thriller film would be better if it was slightly humours instead of being completely serious?


10. Does it matter what type of couple you would see in a ROM-COM (i.e a straight or homosexual couple) ?



These questionnaires were given out to 10 people.
Here are the results that i have found.

1. more people preferred horror.

 None out of the ten people prefer to watch ROM-COM's. 7 people prefer to watch horrors. This is the most popular. 3 people prefer to watch thrillers. This is the second most popular. This means that more people seem to find horrors more appealing to them.

2. Most people like the idea of having blood in horror films.

Most of the participants of our questionnaire prefered blood to be in a horror film, as it makes it more gorey, and creepyer to watch rather than having it to just be scary, or having a killer in the horror. Blood in horrors tend to represent death, and more horror in real life.

3. More people prefer explosions in a thriller film.

I found that more people prefered explosions in Thrillers as they are more exciting and attention grabbing for the film, with the amazing special affects. 

4. Most people said no that it doesn't matter about the stereotypes changing.

Most people said it doesn't matter about stereotypes in ROM-COM's as all different people can be in love rather than the stereotypical blonde pretty woman  and the attractive good looking man.



5. Most people said yes that it does matter about the setting for genres of films.

I found that it does matter about the setting for genres of films as it wouldn't look right and will likely to cause confussion to the viewer for example, a ROM-COM wouldn't look right if it was to be set in a haunted house, so you wouldn;t know whether i would be a ROM-COM or a horror film.

6. Most people said yes that it is better if horrors seemed more real life.

It is better that horrors seemed more real life as it would be more scary and realistic, which would bring more fear to the viewer of any film.



7. More people said no to films being about average people rather than extraodinary.

Extraodinary people seem to be more exciting for the viewer and makes the film much more interesting.


8. Most people said yes that more films are in the present day which are relatable and makes them better.

It is better that films are set in the present day as it seems more real life and wouldnt be boring if it was something set in the past.




9. Most people said no as horror films are better when they are serious.

It is better when horror films are serious as they seem more scary and make the viewer feel tension; horror films have to be serious as they couldn't be funny etc... meaning they can't be horrors.




10. Most people said that it doesn't matter what types of couples are in a ROM-COM.

The types of couples in ROM-COMs wouldn't really matter as there are different types of couples all around the world, so it wouldn't make a difference.