ideas for opening scene to our film

The main ideas i had for the opening scene of the film are mainly based around the codes and conventions of horror films: 

Codes and conventions of a horror film: narrative structure

•         Predictable narrative content, one bad guy many victims

•         Clear binary oppositions e.g. good v evil, victim vs killer, child vs adult

•         Use of low key lighting, Use of CGI, FX, based at night time,

Female Victim

•         Extensive use of close up, Point of view shots, Low angle shots

•         Young/teenage characters, sweaty characters, very attractive teenage girls

•         Use of hand-held camera: audience identification/realism first person view from the killers angle

•         Characters: teenager victims are women antagonists are usually men, non- digetic sounds tense music, digetic sounds screams,

•         Settings: no neighbours, cabins woods abandoned buildings

•         Camera angles: extreme close upsàto show fear,

•         Representation of gender: men have power women are victims and children are always scary

•         Narrative: 3 part story arc 

The main types of codes and conventions that we will use will be the hand held filming to add a realism to the scene, another will be the use of low key lighting and also using non-diegetic sounds like eerie music to create an atmosphere, and also using the killers point of view,