Initial Idea: Shot List

Before setting out to film our opening sequence our group made an initial shot list, which would help us to know what we wanted to get before filming, also because of opening sequence is of a horror genre our camera shots and angles had to be appropriate to suit this genre.

This is the shot list we made:

• 360 around our main character, to give an introduction to our character and to put emphasis on her facial expressions and her isolation
• Close ups, to heighten the abnormal objects within the warehouse
• High angle shot, to give the sense she is being watched
• Pan, to show how jumpy and scared she is as she knows she shouldn't be there
• Point of view
• Over the shoulder
• Medium shots
• Long shot, when she is looking down from the room to show how she isn't alone

Story Board

Before we started filming, our group created a storyboard, this was effective in helping us to gain a better understanding of our story but to also see it visually. This helped us while filming as it meant we knew exactly what we wanted to get, in terms of each clip and gave us a better idea of camera shots and angles to portray emotions within each scene and section of our opening sequence.

This also helped to give us a more detailed plan of a shotlist as we decided to initially use:

• pan/360
• close up
• medium shots
• extreme close ups
• point of view 
• over the shoulder shots
• high angle

We hope that by using these shots it will create an intense, isolated but also confined sense that she is being watched, which will heighten our horror genre sequence. 

Pre Production Meeting Three

As shown in the picture, we have decided on what aspects of our storyline should go into each scene, this helps us to break down filming into more manageable parts and gives us an easier idea of what different things we need to film. This should help to make editing easier as we will have a good idea of how the clips should flow to make an effective horror opening sequence.

From the three pre production meetings, our groups is prepared to film our opening sequence.

Because our initial deadline for our production is the 13th February, our group aim to finish filming by the 13th January which gives us a month to begin editing. From our production meetings we have decided that we will spend 2 days filming, on the first day we will film the reporter walking into the building, up the stairs and looking around. On our second day we will film the reporter finding the book, looking through it and the some unknown being entering the room with her. As we have spent time planning we can now effectively manage our time so that we have enough time to edit.