1. Enigma
• We’ve improved our use of enigma from draft
one to our final draft, because we have made
the ending of our opening sequence much
quicker and fast paced through the use of
quick clips that cut swiftly as the unseen thing
approaches her.

2. Target Audience! M
• Age: It is aimed at 15+, this is because the main character in the film is a teenager
and a younger generation can relate to this because it will appeal to them. The fast
pace tone of the film wont appeal to someone of an older generation who is not
as active as a younger person
• Location: the fact that it is set in London will appeal to a great number of people
who actually live in London. This is because the audience will be able to relate to
the character and the film and therefore will be more affected by the film.
E.g. many people who live in London were terrified of using the London
Underground after watching the movie ‘Creep’ which is set in Charing Cross tube
station. This scared many people who used the station, which is the major aim of a
horror/thriller film.

3. Target Audience!
• Lifestyle: The movie itself is quite slow pace this
doesn’t take away from it’s excitement. Therefore
our target audience would be people who lead an
active life and enjoy thrills and sitting on the edge of
their seat whilst watching a movie. The mystery and
enigma throughout our film will appeal to our target
audience.

4. M
Why Our Target Audience Will Be Interested In
Our Film!
• The Idea: Our target audience will be interested in our idea because it is thrilling
and exciting and creates mystery (the history behind the house and the ghost).
This will intrigue our audience, because they will want to find out more. The
unexplained paranormal events that take place will interest people who regularly
watch thrillers
• Form: We want to use very creep and eerie music in some parts then fast pace
violin music to create excitement. This will interest our audience because the are
aiming our film at thrill seekers. We also want to use quick cutaways to create
excitement and build up tension for the audience. (running through the corridors).
However will we also use smooth camera movements to build up tension that will
lead up to the climax at the end. This will attract our target audience as it creates
excitement which will appeal to regular thrill seekers.

5. Target Audience!
• Conventions: We are targeting our film at an audience who
regularly watch thrillers with conventions such as terror, and
we will intrigue people who enjoy being frightened by films.
• We will include ghosts and spirits in order to attract an
audience who are interested in supernatural happenings
and life after death. (Ghost girl). We want to satisfy their
interest in paranormal activities by including spirits and weird
unexplained events such as the TV switching on by itself
Being frightened
Ghosts

6. Audience Feedback Across The Drafts.

8. Feedback of our forth opening sequence:

9. Actor/Character Props/Costume N
Joanne Drew
The Others The Unborn
• This character meets stereotypes of a helpless young girl who is haunted by a ghost
• Some movies in which this is displayed are listed above.
• We hope to use some stereotypes in how females act in scary situations and use
this in our opening sequence

10. Character
• We have developed our character as we’ve
emphasised the social group that she belongs
to via the use of costume, additionally, we
show her growth as an individual as the
naturally curious side of her takes over.

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Location – Health & Safety Risks
• With this location, there are minimal health
and safety risks, however we’ll have to pay
attention to things such as:
 My bookcase falling over, and injuring one of
us.
The stairs leading up to my room are quite
narrow and steep, so it is likely that if we
aren’t careful, one of us could lose our footing
and fall down them.

12. O
Location – Health & Safety Risks
 Whilst getting to this location, we’ll need to be
careful whilst crossing the roads, as although
there isn’t a great deal of traffic, there are a few
cars that turn corners at great speed, which
makes us, as pedestrians more vulnerable.
In the scene where a hand slams against the glass
door, a health and safety concern there, is that if
we slam the hand against the door too hard, we
may injure ourselves, or break the door, which is
fragile.

13. O
Location – Health & Safety Risks
 We’ll have to ensure that our actress has a
suitable amount of breaks, between filming and
is kept adequately hydrated.
 A major health and safety concern, is the risk of
falling anywhere within the house, as it could
happen to anyone of us.
Finally, the windows are able to fully open
up, which poses a threat to us, if we open them
up, as my bedroom is on the top floor. We’ll have
to be careful when opening and closing the
window in my room.

14. O
Location
• This location is nearly always accessible as its my
room, however, the only problem we may face with
this location is when we can film as my mother works
from home and noise from filming could be an issue.
• We can get there from school by getting the 266 or
260 bus to Church Road and then a short walking
distance, where we’d have to cross four non-major
roads.

15. O
Location

16. P
Narrative
• We are using Linear Narrative for our opening
sequence initially, however we then use a non linear
narrative, as we have a flashback quite near to the
beginning of them film, which changes the linear
narrative structure.

17. Q
Tvzetan Todorov: Narrative Structure
Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco- Equilibrium: it is a narrative that
Bulgarian philosopher. He lived in starts with a state of
France since 1963 with his wife and harmony, example a group of people
two children. enjoying their live.
Disequilibrium: it is a world of
stability which involves
disruption, example when an evil
event happens to character in a
movie.
New Equilibrium: it is when the evil
in a movie is removed and it restores
harmony.

18. Q
It contrast with
disequilibrium because it
has some disturbing
images in the middle the
movie
This describes equilibrium as
it has the character enjoying
This links with new
himself because he thinks
equilibrium as it shows
that everything is perfect.
a peaceful atmosphere
between the characters

19. Binary Opposition: Binary opposition is the
idea of bringing two ideas that are
completely different together into one film.
Examples of this include:
•Cowboys versus Aliens
•Aliens versus Ninjas
•The Matrix

20. Binary Opposition.
• We are not using this as it wouldn’t be
suitable for the type of film idea we have, as
there are literally only paranormal activities in
her house, not paranormal activities and
ninjas or paranormal activities and aliens.

21. Characters and their purpose in Propp’s
theory:
•The villain (struggles against the hero)
•The donor (prepares the hero or gives the hero
some magical object)
•The (magical) helper (helps the hero in the quest)
•The princess (person the hero marries, often
sought for during the narrative)
•Her father
•The dispatcher (character who makes the lack
known and sends the hero off)
•The hero or victim/seeker hero, reacts to the
donor, weds the princess

22. Film Theory.
• We aren’t using Strauss’ film theory as it is not suitable for
what we want our opening sequence to be.
• In our opening sequence, it could be argued that out
character is the hero, as she is doing all of the research herself
and trying to save herself from her possession.

23. Film Theory.
• We’re applying Todorov’s film theory, as at the beginning of
our film idea, the character’s life is in a state of harmony.
(Equilibrium)
• As our idea continues, the character finds more and more out
about the ghost as it slowly possesses her. (Disequilibrium)
• Finally, the death of the character brings final peace and
harmony, or so the audience think until a new family move
into the same house. (New Equilibrium)

24. R
Columbia Pictures
• It’s an American film production and distribution
company.
• Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia
TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures
Entertainment.
• Columbia's major contract stars were Jean Arthur and
Cary Grant (who was shared with RKO Pictures).
• It is one of the leading film companies in the world, a
member of the so-called Big Six.
• It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight
major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.

25. R
Films and Budgets.
Anaconda The plot centre's on a Budget:$45,000,000
film crew for National (estimated)
Geographic's who are Opening
kidnapped by a Weekend:$16,620,88
hunter who is going 7 (USA) (13 April
after the world's 1997) (2456 Screens)
largest anaconda, Gross:$136,885,767
which is discovered in (Worldwide) .
the remote jungle.
Fright Night Fright Night is an Budget:$9,000,000
American vampire (estimated)
comedy horror film Opening
starring William Weekend:$6,118,543
Ragsdale, Chris (USA) (4 August 1985)
Sarandon, Stephen (1542 Screens)
Geoffreys and Roddy Gross:$24,922,237
McDowall that was (USA) (22 September
released in 1985. 1985)

26. R
Why Columbia Would Be Suitable.
• I chose this because they make lots of horror films that relate
to our genre.
• We aim a big hit for our genre so we can relate it to the
budget of Columbia pictures.
• It is an inspiration to film distributing and production.
• They have Co-production companies who help and support
them in exhibition and going into cinemas.

27. S
Titles And Credits
• Titles and credits from real films:
• The Ring
• Se7en
• Rosemary's Baby
• Stephen King's "IT"
• Frankenstein (1931)

28. S
Titles And Credits of ‘The Ring’
• The font appears hand written 
A handwritten style font would emphasise the
‘Mental illness’ aspect of our film as the text
would appear messy and scattered, as if written by
someone in panic or distress, (mentally unstable)
• The ‘O’s in the text match the ring of the well in the film

This emphasises the theme of the film, which has inspired us to use a font style which gives
clues to the audience as to what our film will be about without giving too much away.

29. S
Titles And Credits of ‘Se7ev’
• Similarly to ‘The Ring’, ‘Se7en’ also has handwritten style fonts that
are often spaced out or slanted.
• The most inspiring thing about ‘Se7en’ is the animation of the
text.
• The quick bright flashes of the text create excitement for the
audience and keep them on the edge of their seat which is essential
for thriller films and has inspired us to display our text in a similar
way.

30. S
Titles And Credits of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’
• The font style and colour are somewhat unusual as it does not link with
anything in the movie.
• However the fact that its so uncommon for a Horror/Thriller, makes it
unique and unpredictable.
• Baby pink colour, however
symbolises the innocence of
Rosemary’s character.
•Similarly, our main
character also possesses a
sense of innocence.
• This has inspired us to use a font not normally associated with Thrillers
to make it as unpredictable as possible.

31. S
Titles And Credits of Stephen King’s ‘IT’
The title of the film is the The bright red symbolises
only text in this colour blood and gore therefore
(bright red) and font style. attracting the target
audience as it is common
in Horror/Thrillers.
This makes the title stand
out from the rest of the text The small cuts and slits within
highlighting the significance the letters emphasis the violence
of the ‘IT’ character to in the movie as they represent
intrigue the audience. stabs and scratches.

32. S
Titles And Credits of ‘Frankenstein’ (1931)
• The inconsistency of the text style could be used to disorientate the
audience and perhaps panic them and keep them on the edge of their
seat.
•Also used for once sentence.
•Each word is a different font.
• The different fonts represent the
•Each piece of text is written
way that ‘Frankenstein’ was made
in a different font, confusing
up of different parts just like the
the audience yet still intriguing
text.
them.

33. S
The colour of Our Text
• At fist we considered using a deep red font colour as it is usually
associated with Horrors/Thrillers.  ‘What Lies Within’
• However once we changed our opening sequence from a Horror to a
Thriller we decided that a colour associated with blood and gore would
not be appropriate plus too common and predictable.
• We then took inspiration from ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ which uses a baby
pink to signify her characters innocence. 
• In a similar way we decided that white would be the best option for us
as it resembles something pure.  ‘What Lies Within’

34. S
The Font of Our Text
• After exploring different fonts from real films and opening credits we
narrowed our favourites down to:
• Block Capitals e.g. ARIAL BLACK
This could represent a sense of seriousness about the film. The houses being built
where a Mental Institution once was. The fire that was used to cover a
murder.
• Handwritten style Font e.g. Bradley Hand ITC
We would use this to resemble the mental state of the characters by making the
writing as unstructured and disorientated as possible.
• Old Fashioned Font e.g. Brush Script MT
This could emphasises the time period of when the Mental Hospital was running.
It gives the audience an insight to the film.

35. S
Our final Font style and colour
• We finally narrowed it down to the font we felt was most appropriate for our
opening sequence and genre.
• We wanted to chose something that gave little clues about the film but not too
much and wasn’t too predictable.
• We decided to go with a handwritten style font as we hoped this would
emphasise the ‘Mental illness’ aspect of our film as the text would appear messy and
scattered, as if written by someone in panic or distress, (mentally unstable).
• Inspired by ‘The Ring’ and ‘Se7en’
• We were also inspired by ‘Se7en’ to make the text flash onto the screen and fade
away.

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Copyright Free Music Sites
We had to look at copyright free sites for music
and found a few brilliant sites that music
suitable for our genre.
• http://freeplaymusic.com/
• http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/
• http://www.royaltyfreemusic.co.uk/

37. T
Music That Inspires Us
• We like distinctive sounds like the sound of
typing, creaking and eerie diegetic sounds in
films. Also, slow footsteps with emphasis on
each step as this also builds the tension.
• This makes it more realistic as it scares people
more and they can relate to it.

38. How We Used This Music.
• We took distinctive sounds, like typing to keep
the pace quite slow.
• Coupled with our diegetic sounds, this made
our opening sequence quite eerie. We also
used them to build excitement and tension as
our character tries to exit her room.

39. U
BBFC and Rating
• There are 6 different BBFC ratings.
Uc gives guidelines for a child being able to watch a
film by themselves (from the age of 4)
U stands for universal, enabling everyone to watch
the film.
PG stands for Parental Guidance. So the film is
suitable for children as long as their parents are
watching with them.
12A requires the viewers to be aged 12 but have
adult supervision whilst watching the film.
12 requires the viewer to be aged 12 and over.
15 requires the viewer to be aged 15 and over.
18 requires the viewer to be aged 18 and over.
R18 is a legally restricted classification for explicit
works of consenting sex or fetish material.

40. U
BBFC and Rating
Our film fits into the 15 classification.
This is because there is a strong threat in our
film and sadistic behaviour is shown when the
ghost harms the character in her sleep just to
convey her message.