Unit 1: Foundation Portfolio - Two Minute Film Opening

The genre of our film opening is horror, we have based the film opening around three different films. We have taken ideas from Paranormal Activity, Saw, and My Switchblade Romance. All these films are horror themed but we based our idea around these three films because they are unique in individual way. Paranormal Activity is a paranormal film that the characters within the film record the film footage themselves, Saw is a film that features scenes of gore and torture, and My Switchblade Romance features themes of mental instability.

We have decided that our film will be from the killers point of view, through the use of 'home videos'. The audience will see the film from the killer's viewpoint of what they have recorded, this idea was taken from the way Paranormal Activity was filmed. Our film will be about two killers (Me and Natalie) who lure people into our home then film how they are tortured and killed, this theme was based from Saw. We have taken the theme of mentally instability from My Switchblade Romance. 

We will not have a full dialogue script, as our opening will be made up by mostly graphic images, and music, however, we will have some scripted dialogue but the rest will be improvisations. Because we will not have a script we will use story boards to create our opening scenes visually. We have researched into Jim Cornish a world renowned story board artist, and from this we can see how detailed our story boards will have to be and how we will have to visually create our shots in the story boards. The scripted dialogue will come into play in the opening credits, it will involve a recorded interview of the two characters who are being interviewed in a mental health clinic, the two characters are having different conversation but what they say mimic eachother and when the two are played in cut sequences switching between the two interviews it will sound as if the two sisters are having a conversation with eachother. During these interviews the films credits will begin, and after this the opening of the film will begin. 

From this story board by Jim Cornish you can clearly see the way in which it has been drawn displays the way in which the camera should shoot the scene.