Developing Our Ideas...

After having further discussions about our film opening, we decided to do the title sequence in the old dark room at school so that the stalker could be filmed hanging up pictures of his past victims and his next victims. We thought the red light would create a very eerie effect (low key lighting).

We decided not to do the shots of the victim getting ready to go out because the dark room shots would take up too much time and we thought that shots of the outside of her house with the stalker next to it would be more effective.

Initial ideas for our film opening...

Here are just a few ideas that we jotted down as a group right at the start of our film making process;

• Graveyard scenes of children happily playing (high key lighting, nice music) then stumbling upon/realising they're in a graveyard (low key lighting, dark music). Possibly point of view shot of someone watching from the bushes?
• If we have the opening sequence inside a victim's room we could have an extreme close up eye-line shot of girl (victim) doing her make-up, then transition to stalker's eyes watching her, then back to the girl?
• Make-up could be a way of doing the title sequence?
• We could use Sarah's house/road and her Dad could play the part of the stalker?
• Charlotte could be the victim, or possibly the twins?
• Point of view shot of the stalker following the victim, noise of something crunching underfoot makes the victim turn around and the camera moves quickly away as if hiding from her?
• Darkroom possible location? Perhaps the stalker takes pictures of his victims beforehand and after the killing? (Possible idea for title sequence)
• Use of alleys?

Not all of these ideas will be used but this was just a quick brainstorm that we did very early on in the process of making our film opening.

An example of someone being chased by a point of view shot (at 1:19);

180 Degree Rule Research

The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.
(http://www.wikipedia.org/)