For prep I was told to go and watch the opening two minuets of several horror movies to get a feel of what my first two minutes should or could look like. The films that I was studying were: The Blair Witch Project, The Mist, The Evil Inside, The Unborn and The Messenger. I have written about everything that happens in the first 2 minutes of each on a time line.
I have talked to my friend and she is a HUGE horror movie fan about what she likes in horror movies.
T's ideas of what a horror should have in it:
- Dramatic music
- Scary and believable make up
- Good and gripping story line
- Good acting
- A scary child
- Set in a forest or haunted house
My teacher said to find out some film production companies then look at their designs and think up my own for my movie.
A list of well known production companies are:
- Paramount
- 20th century Fox
- Lionsgate
- Fact
- Dolby digital
- DMN films
- Universal
- Momentum pictures
A graphic artist, Saul Bass once said, "Making a main title was like making a poster, you're condensing the event into this one concept, this one metaphor is a back story that needs to be told or a character that needs to be introduced".
In the film industry the first 2-3 minutes of the film is critical to lay out to the audience who made or was in this movie along with expressing the story line/character in these first crucial minutes. When this happens and the producer's name is shown it can explain to the audience what the movie might be like. Example: Michel Bay--> he likes big, loud movies with a lot of explosions in them.
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