1. Inspirational Films – The Ring
• The film that inspired me most is ‘The Ring’
• I want to use a similar long shot in our opening sequence.
• It’s an effective way of keeping the audience’s attention to the puddle of
water whilst showing the character come up the stairs.
• I also want to use a fast zoom in our opening sequence.

2. Use of costume and make-up in ‘The Ring’
• Quite frightening to look at and an effective way of scaring the
audience.
• The lighting throughout the whole movie is kept more or less the same.
• This creates a very eerie and creepy atmosphere in the movie, common
in most horrors and thrillers.
• I want to use dark lighting in our opening sequences .

3. Inspirational Films - The
Haunting In Connecticut.
• Another film that inspired me was ‘The Haunting in Connecticut ’
• Its paranormal theme has inspired me to make my opening sequence
about a haunting.
• Slamming doors…
• It especially inspired me to set my opening sequence in a building that’s
haunted. E.g. a haunted house.
• I would like to use old newspaper
articles such as this to briefly show the
history of the area. 

4. Inspirational Films – Rosemary’s
Baby
• A scene from ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ also inspired me.
Close up of hand reaching into crib
Draws the audiences attention
to what she's doing.
.
Allows imagination to run Close up of Rosemary’s face
It never shows what emphasises her shock, and
wild making the audience she sees, only her reaction.
uneasy. horror at what she sees.

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Inspirational Films - Gothika
The particular scene I found inspirational about this film, where
the scenes where the ghost interacts with the characters by leaving
scratched out messages on their arms saying ‘Not Alone’.
I thought that a similar
idea would be a good
addition to our idea, as
the ghost tries to
communicate with our
character whilst she
sleeps.
I also took inspiration from the non-diegetic sounds, because they were creepy and
added to what was already a tense film.

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Inspirational Films – Paranormal
Activity
Throughout the whole of Paranormal
Activity, the characters use their own camera
to document what is happening to them.
I liked the idea of this as it makes the viewing
experience more personal for the viewer as
they literally see what the characters see.
I want to use this in our opening sequence as
the camera shots made it more exciting for the
viewer, and we want to add tense excitement
too.

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Inspirational Films – The Grudge
• The inspiration that I took from this film was
part of the plot – that the ghost was trying to
get revenge over her death.
• I also felt that the setting added to the
creepiness of the film, and so I hope we can
re-create this when we make our opening
sequence.

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Inspirational Films – Cabin Fever
The camera shot for this scene The props of this
is a mini close up shot of his movie is very
face to demonstrate disturbing for the
fear, disgust and anxiety to the audience as it has
audience. disgusting images of
blood everywhere.

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Inspirational Films – Cabin Fever
The movie has some kind of old
fashioned humour to it which makes it
more entertaining and interesting to
the audience.
In this scene the lighting was very dim
which makes it more scary because it
emphasis death, danger and fear. It
creates suspense to the audience as
they don’t know what is going to
happen next.

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Inspirational Films – The Village
A scene where a character This scene has a mid shot of
discovers about the a character who is
supernatural things happening illustrating fear and also of
in the village in order to prove the monster destroying
to the people that there is things in the village.
something going on.

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Idea Development Option
• From draft one to the final draft, we discussed a
number of alternate endings.
• Having tried and tested quite a few, such as a
hand slamming on a glass door, her being tracked
from behind and locked in her bedroom.
• We decided on the last option, of locking her in
her room whilst something unseen approaches
her from behind.

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Theme/Concept
• An idea we had for the theme was Revenge
and the concept was Possession.
Injustice Ghosts
Grievance
Twists & Turns
Victims Enigma
Revenge &
Hidden identities Possession!
Vicious
Ghouls Suspicious
circumstances
Unsuspecting Mysterious
Shocking
Someone who has
revelations
been wronged

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Theme/Concept
Another idea we had for the theme was Justice and concept was Death
Murder & Manslaughter
Righteousness
Revenge
Moral
Rightness.
Vendetta
Justice & Death!
A Cause
Mystery
Decay
Supernatural
Life After Death

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Theme/ Concept
• These were our previous themes and
concepts.
• WWW: We had a range of different words
which helped us when thinking of our opening
sequence.
• EBI: We could have thought of more themes
and concepts.

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Theme/Concept
• We did not change our themes or concepts
because it was suitable for what we wanted to
do.
• We kept the theme revenge and the concept
possession because the keywords on that
brainstorm helped to provoke new ideas
regarding our opening sequence.

16. We did a lot of research into the paranormal prior to
making this our opening sequence.
Our research included researching horror/thriller
films and seeing how they portrayed the
paranormal.
We also did online research, looking at websites such
as: http://fspp.net/warn%20poss.htm
And http://www.yourghoststories.com/real-ghost-
story.php?story=2298

17. Whilst doing this research, we learnt about outward
manifestations which is a central idea to our opening
sequence.
Opening manifestations include:
• Knocking, banging or pounding being heard in one room.
• Electrical appliances turning on by themselves.
• A feeling of being watched.
• Scratching sounds being heard without an obvious
source.
• And objects seemingly moving by themselves.

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Idea Development Option
• From draft one to the final draft, we discussed a
number of alternate endings.
• Having tried and tested quite a few, such as a
hand slamming on a glass door, her being tracked
from behind and locked in her bedroom.
• We decided on the last option, of locking her in
her room whilst something unseen approaches
her from behind.