Ideas About The Two Minute Opening Sequence

Today Blawal and I sat down to decide what our story line would be for our two minute opening sequence, keeping in mind that our genre is Thriller/Horror. With some of the research which we had collected we saw quite a few opening sequences which inspired us to relate our sequence with ghosts but to get the realistic make up and props with all the setting work was out of our reach, so we came up with our first idea which was two people are walking through a empty park but as they are walking there is a ghost on a swing, this ghost can only be seen by the audience not the characters themselves, so the two guys walk on and decide to jump the fence and explore the place, one of the characters is hyper and up for it where as the other character is scared a bit, as the hyper character jumps over the fence we thought we could have a point of view shot from a behind the woods which does not reveal who this character is, as the hyper character manages to jump over, we would cut back to the scared character who decides not to jump over and wait for his friend to return but whilst waiting he hears a noise from the other side of the fence so he decides to walk down the to see what it was, then we could cut to a point of view of him looking through the fence and some man appears with blood all over his face with a gun in his hand, then we would have a cut to the hyper character who hears a gunshot and rushes back over to see what has happened.

We also later come up with a second idea which was a killer who is on the run because he has murdered someone now the police is chasing him, and due to running away and taking all sorts of turns he ends up jumping over a fence which is blocking his way, and looks around for anyone so he can get rid of his weapon which he has used to murder someone, but as he walks along he discovers a park which he thinks he has seen and come to before but cannot remember anything, then as he walks towards the park he looks at the swing, and just feels he has defiantly been to this place before, as he looks around he then sees a soul of a kid which is swinging on the swing and he gets very confused and scared that he is seeing beyond what an human eye can see and starts to get really scared.

After thinking about the location where we would actually film the sequence and which idea would turn out to be realistic and could be achievable to actually film, we decided to go with the second idea because we had to locations in mind which would be perfect to film which are Grenfell Park which is in Maidenhead and also an estate park which is near one of our friends house. Another reason why we went for the second idea was because the locations which we knew of we were unable to film the shots we would have wanted to which would have made us change the story completely. Now that we have decided on the story we proceeded to draw up the story board for the sequence.

Once we had finished brainstorming our storyline and location we had to decide the name of our movie name as the will represent and wrap up our movie. We came up with quite a few names such as the park killer, haunted park, mysterious woods and many more but the one which stood out the most was Devils Playground, the idea came up from why would some one commit a crime because the devil side of them provokes them, then we thought of another word for park which is playgorund and put them togother and came up with the final movie name.

Whilst thinkin about a film name, I also though about a production name, the reason behind a production is there to be recognised so to make sure when ever anyone watches our movie they know who made it and who those people are, after a lot of thought we came up with our production name which is " A FUGITIVE PRODUCTION", the word fugitive means "Running away or fleeing, as from the law". below is an image showing our name in the chosen text but later on we will edit the text using Live Type.