At the start of our film project there are 4 girls who are getting ready for a party who we are going to play ourselves. Megan will be playing a girl named Scarlet, Kimberley is called Cassie, Chantelle is Eva and I will playing a girl named Riley.
The opening credits of the stars names and who they are going to play over the screens of each girl that is getting ready, for example 'Chantelle Roberts as Eva’ will be on the screen when Chantelle is getting ready for the party.
We decided that we would change our names as not many films use the names of the actors/actresses unless it is a biography or a true life story. Our film is not true to life for anyone that we know so we have followed the tradition and made up the characters that are in the film.
Megan’s Shot- Megan is putting on her make-up and is oblivious to the shadow of the man who is standing in the doorway, and when she turns to put on the radio it wipes across and turns into Kimberley who is also turning on the radio. After this Kimberley starts to put on her make-up and after a while it will wipe to Abigail (me) who is doing the finishing touches to her make-up. Abigail then zips up her dress and again wipes to a different person (Chantelle) and she zips up her dress.
We chose a wipe because all the scenes link into each other by the actions of how the girls are getting ready. Instead of a cut we are using a wipe so that the opening flows together better than it would if we were going to use cuts.
Whilst still on Chantelle’s screen she looks over at the time and realizes it is 10:00 and we are late for the party so calls up to see if we are ready to go.
We debated on whether or not to have the time of the party set at 9:00 or 10:00 but agreed on 10:00. We thought to use the time of 10:00 because most teenagers/young adults who host parties where there will be alcohol involved start quite late.
The phone calls will have the screen splitting every time a new person is added to the conversation. We do not know of any horror/thriller films that use this technique but we thought it would a challenge to set up that we could use in film considering that the idea is simplistic.
My example of a 3/4 way call screen split is from the film Mean Girls.
The screen is focused on Chantelle who then calls Kimberley and Abigail who exchange small talk for a little while but then someone remembers that Megan is also going to the party but is not currently in the conversation. When Abigail tries to call Megan they cannot reach her, which is when the screen splits into 4. We see Megan's screen which is just her phone ringing and no answer, which is when someone else asks why we cannot reach her.
Megan's screen enlarges on the phone that is still ringing and pans across to see that the reason Megan isn't answering because she is laying on the bed dead. The camera continues to pan to the dress she was going to put on for the party hanging up and the back of the killer who is walking out of the room with a bloody knife in his hand. (Throughout this entire scene the phone is still ringing).
We thought that having the phone still ringing in the background would be a good effect to have because when you ring someone who doesn't pick up, you don't put the phone down on them straight away. Another feature we thought would work well was only seeing the back of the killer which adds to the mystery of the film because you don't know what is going to happen in the rest of the film and people would want to carry on watching the film as they wish to figure out who the killer is at the end of the film.
Nearing the end of the two minutes of the start of the film it cuts to a black grainy screen and blood red writing 'Who's Next?' appears.
We have chosen to use a black grainy screen for the background because although the start isn't scary the rest of the film is a horror/thriller and the conventions of these are dark colours. The screen is grainy because the tittle is full of mystery and you are unsure of what happens next. The title of the film appears in blood red writing because there is a murder within the first two minutes of the film and the title is 'Who's Next?' which shows that there will be at least one more death within the film. As a group we have considered two different ideas of how the title should appear onto the screen. We could either have the title appear with a fade in or it jumping out of the screen of which we are going to try both and see which one works better.
After the title comes up there are quick and hasty cuts to individual pictures of the three girls.
We thought of this idea to remind the people who was in the opening getting ready and so that they know it would be one of those three girls and to watch out for anything that could foreshadow one of their deaths.
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