Example 2 Specific To Genre:Coraline

This is one of my favourite film opening sequences. I like things such as a close up of the dolls mouth as it gets picked out and also the type of animation it has used throughout. Another thing i like about this sequence is the music that accompanies it, the music is bouncy and fun, yet has creepy monotones underneath to create a sinister atmosphere, that makes the images even more intense.

Example 1 General Sequence:Love Actually

This is a general film sequence opening that i came across, the fact that it uses lots of different shots at different angles but it uses different characters makes it interesting and keeps you interested!

Different Types Of Camera Shots

These are all the different types of shots and movements that we will be using throughout the filming process of our sequence. They each greatly affect the narrative power of the shot; therefore we have to be careful when picking and choosing what type of shot we would use for each

section of our sequence.

Each of these shots will be used in an individual way to make our sequence the best it can be.

• By using a panning shot we can show the hallways in an eerie way by running it through the hallways and along spooky passages to create a sense of a hollow empty large setting.
• By using an extreme close up we can show fear in the girls eyes when she is running from the man, or show little details like the hands of the clock to show the overpowering factor that time is a great issue for the girl in the last moments of the section.
• By zooming into the wardrobe it creates an effect of the wardrobe growing. The wardrobe would start off as just an object in an empty room, however by zooming in towards the wardrobe it will show that, that wardrobe is a significant figure of the sequence and will make the audience want to know what is inside the wardrobe. 
• By using an extra long shot in clips such as the exterior of the old house to show where the film is set it can create the effect of loneliness. It will show the house isolated from civilisation showing to the audience that there is nowhere for the girl to hide. Therefore by using this extra long shot it creates an effect of isolation for the location of the film. 
• We also would use shots such as tilting to make the exterior of the house look eerie. By tilting the shot it would make the house appear more angular therefore creating a spookier effect. 

Example 1: Juno

We liked to use this sequence from Juno of inspiration for our final piece. Even though it doesn't fit in with our 'horror' genre, we like the animation sequences in it. The fact that the clip flicks from animation to real life once in a while makes it more exciting and creating, therefore we are taking a lot of encouragement from this section. I particularly liked when she walks behind a tree and when emerges again she is in animation, we are going to try and involve this in our sequence.

Audience for our genre

The type of audience for our genre would be horror obsessors and young adults/teenagers. This is because our film is a horror, it is based on out of the ordinary situations, therefore would scare a young child too much, however maybe wouldn't be scary enough for an older generation.Therefore by making our film a horror genre but not too scary it creates a wide range of audience who will appreciate it. 

Characters involved in our horror/children genre

These are all the types of characters that we found were most common in the genre we had picked. Through research we discovered that young women/girls were the most common along with children and middle aged 'creepy' men, however there weren't so many characters such as older women, this would probably be because stereotypically they are usually the good character in the films.

Our second storyboard.

Our

This is our second storyboard that we have created, with just slightly more detail, however we still need to adopt on camera angles, movements and shot length!

Our first rough storyboard!

This storyboard is very basic and just the beginning! We started to brainstorm and sketch what type of shots we might like to have in our clip and what kind of sequence we would want; however we still haven’t decided what type of shots and shot lengths we would like to use, because of the importance of this we have decided to create many storyboards that progress each time, until the final product is perfect.

Links between film clips we have seen and the type of clip we would like to create.

We looked at film openings such as 'A series of unfortunate events' and 'Holiday' as well as 'Juno'. All of these film openings seemed to be linked by having an animated effect of some sort, whilst 'Holiday' and 'A series of unfortunate events' also have a creepy atmosphere. We think that this would be a really good effect to use in our film opening as it shows imagination, but still keeping within the horror criteria.By making parts animated in the opening sequence it makes it more exhilarating and creative, this means that it will draw the audience in more and make the audience feel as if they are more involved, and interested in the film.    

Choosing A Genre

We decided that we would go with the genre horror (but with a bit of fantasy intertwined). We first of all looked at 'chick flick' and 'horror' and 'comedy' and after looking at other film openings we decided most of our inspiration came from the horror films.

Such chick flick films we looked at were things like 'st trinians' however this film sequence was entirely animated which wouldn't be realistic in our situation. 

Another chick flick opening we looked at was the devil wears prada which didn't inspire us as much although the types of shots used were very interesting, the fact that they used many different characters but interlinked them with their common factor was fantastic but other than that we were not encouraged enough. 

So then we moved on to looking at comedy film sequences. The first one we looked at was honey i blew up the kids, even though this opener is clearly meant to entertain the audience and make them laugh it still presents the main credits however is also fully animated and out of our range.

As we did further research we decided comedy wasn't the genre for us, just because of the fact we didn't feel that we could do something that extravagant in the time period we had and we needed it to be realistic.

Therefore we started to look in the horror based genre, the type of films that inspired us the most were 'Coraline" and 'holiday'. 

Holiday really enthused me to do a horror genre because of the zooming in on excessive human debauchery and its gloriously slovenly consequences, it gave me many ideas of what to work with and what could really make an exciting film sequence.