Initial ideas

Initial ideas

Our first main idea we thought of was a Zombie apocalypse theme, we thought the horror aspect would work well and this was the direction we wanted to take our film. However after much consideration we decided this wasn't the best idea as it would be hard to get the props and costumes for this particular opening. The Zombie theme would of been set in the initial outbreak where the world is in chaos, we thought this may work as we thought we could build suspense and tension with quick pace editing and little dialogue.

Our second idea was of the comedy genre, however we soon realised that this wouldn't work as we would have to use a broad type of humour that relates to a large audience. The comedy aspect wouldn't work as we would need to have a very funny interesting opening which would of been hard to produce with the little equipment that we have.

After deciding the zombie theme wasn't the best idea and the comedy genre wouldn't work, we started looking at other genres such as and action, however we decided to go back down the horror route again. This lead us to thinking of a 'fear of the unknown' theme as we believed this would engage the audience and entice them into the film. The plot for this would be a helpless girl walking in the woods and is being preyed on by a 'Malevolent Phantom'. We decided this was the best idea and have made this our final idea. We thought we could use the setting of a woods to emphasise the horror and add to the mystery, the woods will have poor lighting which will add to the tension. With this theme we let the audience use their imagination and from this it emphasises the horror for the audience.