Brainstorm

Tuesday 15th November (Session 4)
Today we started to brainstorm ideas for our product.


Firstly, we watched opening sequences created by past students to help inspire us and get ideas flowing.


We then discussed ideas for the plot and also for the individual shot types that we want to include. We decided that we would like to use montage editing to create confusion and a sense of enigma for the audience. Within our montage editing we will use canted angles, extreme-close-ups, and point-of-view shots to help disorientate the viewer.


Also, we talked about different conventions of the genre and decided which we would like to keep to, and which we plan to oppose. Enigma is a strong convention of the genre and we have decided to conform to this. However, stereotypically, there would be an obvious antagonist from the start of the film; we will still have an antagonist in our film but as we are only creating the opening sequence, our antagonist will not be shown.


Finally, we discussed and explored sub-genres and hybrids and decided which of these we are going to use. We have decided on the Horror-Thriller hybrid.