Film Opening Concept

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 this goal of this assignment is to help me better visualize the elements of my film opening and help write the screen play for my film opening in the future. I was tasked to start analyzing the characters, sound, and environments.


Concept

• Horror

• 13+

• An anxious kid feels like hes being watched, he thinks walks are his escape from

this feeling. One night he goes on a walk feeling good but gets attacked by a black

figure. He wakes up thinking it was a dream but we see the figure still lurking behind

him.

• Eerie, creepy, suspenseful


Opening Purpose

The information the opening is going to communicate is the house he lives in, his anxiety, the

conflict being the black figure following him, and the mood being him not knowing what’s

happening, so he is creeped out all the time. The questions being raised will be why he Is so

anxious, why he does on walks and why is it so urgent, and finally why is he being attacked. The

opening is going to hook the viewer as the audience will be able to see the figure in the end

whilst the character cannot making you want to see what will happen to him.


Characters

Josh

Age:17

Role: Main character, protagonist

Trait: Anxious, Jittery

Audience understanding: constant jumping, being alone, dark setting


Black Figure

No Name

Age:????

Role: Antagonist

Trait: Stalker

Audience understanding: Trying to hurt josh and following him


Setting & Mise-En-Scene

The location planned for filming will be inside of my house and outside in my neighborhood on

the sidewalk and street. The time of day is going to be nighttime around 9-12 pm. The important

props/costumes are going to be his glasses, his ordinary outfit, his phone, the black figures

costume (being all black with gloves and a mask). The mise-en-scene is going to communicate

the genre and tone as it is going to be mostly quiet in the darkness and focusing on camera angles

that don’t let the viewer see too much, also quick cuts to unexpected scenes will help convey it is

a horror.


Structure of Opening

0-20: We see josh playing video games where he loses and he gets scared by his alarm telling

him to go on a walk where he hastily gets up and gets ready.


20-45: Josh is seen getting ready for his walk putting on shoes, glasses, and grabbing his

headphones. We see he left his shoelace untied and he goes outside starting his walk listening to

music.


45-1:20: Josh is going on his walk, and he constantly stops his music at normal things like leaves

or car lights turning on. Nothing is seen the first 2 times but on the third turn around as he

straightens back out, we the viewers see a black figure walking slowly behind him. Again, he

turns around and it’s nothing, but as he turns back around, he sees this figure standing 10 feet

Infront of him. He instantly starts to run as the figure chases him.


1:20-2: As he’s running, he trips on his shoelace and falls to the floor. He closes his eyes and

clenches his teeth. When he opens them again the figure is gone, he’s breathing heavily looking

left and right. He lays down and lets out a sigh and that when the figure is staring right at him

and grabs him by the neck. He wakes up in his bed hastily to his alarm clock playing the same

song he was listening to on the walk. He gags as he feels as if he has to throw up and sprints to

the bathroom, the camera doesn’t follow. Instead, it stays on his alarm where we see the black

figures hand turn off his alarm whilst he is in the bathroom.





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