Film Brief

We are conducting and creating a two minute opening to a horror film we each have individually planned. The job of the opening our horror film is to immediately captivate our audience and stimulate their interest. We aim to create a clever and interesting beginning to our horror that breaks conventional boundaries at the same time as complying to them create the most effective response from the audience as possible.
The horror genre was chosen specifically because it particularly requires a valuable opening that the rest of the film can be based around. Often the opening in a horror straight away demonstrates the plot of the film, or the affects of the plot which makes it all the more important to the audience.
Our film is largely based around stalking. It involves a group of 6 females with no direct link on the surface to one another apart from being victims of the same stalkers. Each individually became stalked on their way home by what is implied as a group of hooded people; however during their stalking no more than one antagonist is evident in the frame at one time. However the only example of this is in our opening 3 minutes where the audience follows one of the victim’s attacks. All victims were attacked in their own homes and taken to an abandoned warehouse in the middle of the country side, the exact location of which is unknown throughout the film but it is isolated. Throughout the film they are individually tortured by masked characters who never reveal their face. The idea behind the plot is that each member of the "stalking group" are targeting their victims not only for a slightly erotic reason but are sycophantic; all females own something they require/desire. i.e a body part (such as limbs, eyes, hair). The antagonists are a group of psychotic scientists aiming to create their perfect being and relentlessly killing any object of their desire along the way. Although the film follows all the victims it is mainly focused on 3 of the characters, only 2 of which eventually surviving. The other 4 characters all become killed off during the plot in various scenes and ways.
Our opening 3 minutes shows an example of one of the characters attack on her way home from an unknown destination. The audience are made aware during her journey that she is being followed although she is not. We view her walk away and every so often the camera flicks forward in time for a short loud burst of the attack on her that is yet to take place. then camera will then switch back to her journey home, these flashes will continue with the frame hinting more each time and the flashes becoming closer together and faster eventually revealing to the audience exactly what happens during her attack. The attacks show her with her antagonists inside her house and eventually attacking her. The audience are then shown hints of a group of unconscious females with various crosses over different areas of their body. The forward flashes become quicker until the present time zone catches up with the beginning of the flashes as the female goes to let herself in her house and we hear a small child's voice.
We hope this will leave our audience in suspense questioning what the marks on the bodies mean. We plan to give no clear indication of the state of the females and how many there are to keep the audience questioning the scene. The sharp frames we hope will shock the audience but also indicate whats in store throughout the rest of the film. Also we hope the audience is left wondering who the antagonists are and where the victims are based. The main idea of our opening is not a clear cut version of events but clues and hints that firstly may make little sense but as they come together create more answers, yet more anticipation.