Planning our Film Opening

AS Media Studies
Planning your Film Opening

1. I am working in a pair with Hannah McGoey
2. Our film opening belongs to the horror genre
3. Young people aged about 15-25
4. Our film is a thriller/horror, in this film a series of paranormal events will occur in order to engage and entertain the target audience. It will take place in an apartment and the opening scene will be of a quiet family dinner until they are interrupted by the sound of their dog barking at an empty space, indicating that something else is present.
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6. In the opening of our film we want to introduce the main character and make the audience aware that she is possessed.
7. The location for the opening will be in an apartment.

Preparing for our own title sequence

Preparing for our own Title Sequence

Audience: Our target audience will be teenagers and young adults, due to the material in the film it will be rated a 15 as the storyline which includes various different paranormal activities may not be appropriate for a younger audience.

Set: Our opening sequence is set in an apartment, it is a perfect location as it is a family setting and a large amount of paranormal activity can take place there, e.g: lights/kettles switching on and off, dogs barking at empty spaces, and more.

When/Where: We are filming in the apartment during the evening but using strong lighting to ensure the set is not too dark, the majority of the filming will take place in the living room and the kitchen.

Risk Assessment

Conducting a Risk Assessment is important so we know how to overcome any problems we may encounter during our filming, a Risk Assessment can also help us avoid and prevent any problems from happening in general.

• We ensured that all of our actors were comfortable and felt safe with the the roles they were playing, we also made sure that their acting was not harming them or the environment we were in. 
• Before filming I ensured that all of the filming equipment was perfectly intact and not damaged whatsoever, I then put a fully charged battery in the camera and checked to see if it was functioning, I then proceeded to correctly attach it to the tripod and begin filming.
• There are no specific weather requirements, although camera’s should not be operated in the rain. We had arrangements for the camera positioning if it did rain.