Initial thoughts and ideas

Types of camera shots/movements etc.:

In our film, we decided that we wanted to have alot of 'close/extreme close-ups' of the main characters. This was because in order to maintain the key conventions of horrors, we needed to create suspense through the emotions that the characters face throughout a film. From the ideas that we had collected as a group, none of us liked the idea of 'long-shots' as this stops the suspense in the film as the audience are drawn away by the scenery instead of the characters.

Through our ideas, we came to some conclusions on different shots to use throughout our two-minute opening to the film. When we were studying particular films to give us ideas in terms of horrors, we noticed alot of similarities regarding shots. In most horrors, (and also many thrillers), 'subjective-shots' are used. A subjective shot is where the characters in the film know more than the audience, which is the opposite to objective where you know something is going to happen before the characters do, it is a way to create confusion for the audience. We really liked this idea so we decided to make it one of our key elements to have in our film. An example of where subjective shots are used is at the opening of 'Se7en', another film we looked at. The opening supposedly of the murderer making his/her plans for his next victims but you never see his/her face or quite get a glimpse of what he/she is doing.

We also really liked the use of the, 'over-the-shoulder shot' this is where the camera looks over one character's shoulder to another character or location. In terms of horrors, over the shoulder shots are used to maybe portray a psychopath/murderer stalking someone and following them. Finally, in terms of camera movement, we only wanted to keep it to a minimal so decided to use 'Pan' to show where the character is and when and the other one we wanted to use was 'match-on-action'.