Final Title

In terms of where the titles will be placed several film titles influenced our decisions

SEVEN
American Horror Story - Freaks
Colouring from Twin Peaks - red?

Overall we went with the first text because it was the most childish and so it was linked to the younger version of our main character in addition to this it was slightly creepy inkeeping with the feeling that the opening gives of the film.

Soundtrack Dev

In general the concept for the soundtrack to this opening is to have a base level of piano and strings that are there from the beginning (depending on the shot selection there may be certain points at which it would be more effective to start it eg the opening of the letter). This will build throughout maybe changing slightly when the infant version of our main character is in shot. With the conclusion of the sequence the track would hit a sudden crescendo as the figures hand comes into shot and then either cut with the camera or linger over the blackout. No percussion is to be used in the track as the rhythm of the track will be somewhat random and the percussion may distract away from the action on screen

Below are some tracks that are something like what we are looking for.

Incompetech 


Metaphysik

Come Play with Me


Unnatural Situation

Classic Horror 3/2

Finished Plot Proposal

Plot
 Opening shot of girl in bedroom brushing hair. Letter is delivered addressed to her. She opens it to find it is a drawing of a small girl holding a toy. She leaves for school exchanging a brief moment of dialogue with her mother as she leaves. As she's walking through a park she sees a swing-set that is swinging with no one around. She goes up to it a touches it. Suddenly the little girl from the drawing appears on the swings but rapidly disappears. This scares the girl who leaves the park in a panic. As she continues she walks underneath a bridge. In the dark lies the toy from the drawing as she reaches down to pick up the toy the camera pans up to see the girl standing at the end of the tunnel and then the camera cuts to black.

(Slight change might occur here as location scouting lead us to find a very atmospheric alleyway that could take the place off the bridge/underpass as there is a lamppost halfway along it that would provide some highly effective lighting for the toy to sit in)  

Location Scouting - WIP

Below are some of the various locations that we scouted out for the opening.

Parks

Sunray Gardens - Dulwich

Overall I really like this location because of a couple of features. Firstly the swing in the centre of it is very bare bones and would look fantastic (although the underlying bright green mat may be an issue). secondly the alleyway at the back of it could be used in place of the original proposal of a tunnel as half way down it theres a lamppost that would provide some very effective lighting for the conclusion of the opening. It is also fairly small and so there shouldn't be so many people around and so the shots we need shouldn't be too hard to achieve as we want to emphasise  the isolation of the girl in the opening and this lack of people would achieve it.

Shillington Park 

This is the location we eventually went with because of the tunnel that it had in one corner of the path and the presence of a swing set in the children's playground. In addition to this it was somewhat out of the way and so not many people were present when we were filming. In contrast Sunray Gardens was in a central location and is often filled with younger families and so filming would have been more difficult that we first thought. Secondly the swing set in Sunray Gardens wasn't quite what we were looking for.

Tunnel's

Inspiration - Girl on A Train

Title Graphics PreLim Research

Here are some examples of some initial graphic ideas for the font we are going to use in the title. Overall our preference would be for Alphabetised and Personality. The choice will probably ultimately come down to what our exact title is as Alphabetised would look better if our title was longer in length whereas Personality would work best with a very short punchy title.

Possible Titles
The Path Of Shadows?

Audience Survey Results

As you can see from the data above there is clearly an audience for our film as those surveyed in our age range showed a clear interest in the psychological/supernatural thriller genre. Overall there was a slight female leaning to this audience research we performed but this is still consistent with the audience we were trying to hit.

Initial Concept Development Process

Initially as a group we came up with a proposal that blended several of each persons ideas into a cohesive narrative which followed a man (just after he has committed a crime of some kind probably murder) and a seemingly unrelated woman until they eventually meet in a building overlooking London during this scene they would converse and it would become apparent that the female character would be in control despite being seemingly younger.

However after viewing past pieces of coursework from years before we scrapped this plot as we thought that the shots required would take a unnecessary large amount of time and so it would be likely that something would go wrong requiring us to re-shoot these shots which could lead to some flaws in the final piece. Because of this we decided to rethink our ideas and came up with another new idea.

Rather than going for a more crime focused thriller we decided to focus on the psychological side of thriller films leaning towards the horror genre. CKJ's idea formed the basis of this proposal which I believe we are sticking with however this is yet to be confirmed as this idea is constantly evolving

This idea was simplified when compared with the previous idea because of two major reasons. Firstly the age of the characters were far easier to achieve in the time we had. In the original idea the actors we could have used would have looked the wrong age for the situation they were in whereas with this new idea that characters weren't meant to be older they were around our age so the casting would be far easier. Secondly the locations chosen were far more realistic than the previous ideas which were just a little bit too ambitious to achieve (where were we going to find a building overlooking London that we could film in?). It was these concerns that lead us to come up with the final idea