In order to make it obvious that our genre is horror/thriller we made the opening black and white so that it makes it look eerie and edgy. We thought that this would have been a really effective way in order to intrigue the target audience as it creates a lot of mystery and suspense. Personally, I think that the black and white looked really effective because it draws you in, and it also makes you wonder why somebody would be out when it is so late at night.
We used a Bad TV effect for the opening credits in order to
make the clip look old and distorted, almost as though what the people are seeing will see again later on in the film as it could make the audience think that history is about to repeat itself. But possibly in a more gruesome way. I think that the Bad TV effect increased the suspense which had already been created from the black and white effect because everything is shaking, it connotes that the audience will be scared and yet quite disturbed of what they are going to see. This would intrigue the audience further as to why this effect is being used.
For our setting we chose to have the crime happen at Beddington Park, we chose this because even during daytime, people get quite scared walking around on their own as it is such an open area but is still covered in forests and trees all over. In my eyes, I thought that this was a prefect setting in order to show that a murder could happen here because it is such a widely forested area if something like this was to happen nobody would probably know for a while and if anyone was to find the body it would most likely be a dog walker. For our setting, we wanted it to be dark, between 5pm and 8pm. We wanted to have this time originally so that it was dark enough to be believable because nobody would create a crime in the middle of the day, especially when there would be people around. But as we wanted to have it so late, it was too dark to actually see anything but because we didn't want to use the night-vision mode as we didn't have any handheld scenes, we just shot the film around 4pm which is why we used the black and white effect and decreased the brightness so that it made the time of day seem a lot later than 4pm.
With our actors, I feel as though we chose people who were perfect for the part. We chose Jazmine Sines to be our leading lady for the opening sequence as she seems really vulnerable as though she would be a perfect target as she looks as though she would be unable to fight back if she got attacked. As Jazmine is a young pretty girl, we think that this would appeal to our target audience (aged between 18-25) because of the fact that she is pretty and in mostly all horror films there is 'damsel in distress' who gets hunted down and chased. For our killer, as it was really hard to find someone who fitted our criteria, we chose one of our own team members, Michael Kealy. We decided to use him because he looks really intimidating and it would be someone you would try to avoid down a dark alley. I think that he would appeal to the target audience as through out the film you are unable to see his face which would create a lot of mystery and suspense and it is also unclear as to why he wanted to kill her, he could be doing it for revenge, or just because he had been bored. This would make the audience really engaged and they would want to see more as they had been gripped from the first 2 minutes.
We used some props in order to create our Horror genre, we didn't use many as we felt as though we may have over done it if we used too many. We used glass in order to cut Jazmine's hand which made her bleed as we felt
as though you can't have the opening to a horror if there is no blood or harm made to the victim. We also used a mallet as the main weapon which was used by the man in order to kill Jazmine, or knock her out the viewer is unsure which would make the audience more intrigued to know what's happened to her.
By Louise Ashena
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