Sunday, February 24, 2019

Inspiration for Our Film Opening Idea

My partner, Sophia Jauregui, and I have put much thought into what type of horror film we want to base our film opening on. At the start of our researching journey, we looked at films that were mostly based on true stories of paranormal activities; however, we decided that we wanted to create a film opening mainly deriving aspects from films in the horror/science-fiction areas. Thus, we would be trying to capture an “end of the world” vibe through the horror genre. Of course, we would still use our previous research that we gathered; however, we would use research from the films such as Scream (1996) and Bird Box (2018) to develop our idea for our film opening.

To expand on the idea of our film opening, we plan on developing a plot in which the modern world has just recently experienced several occurrences of the same situation involving an individual answering a phone call from his/her contacts, which causes the person to kill themselves. However, since this issue is so new, many do not feel threatened by this dilemma. Thus, when our main character in our film opening, who is aware of this situation, receives a phone call from her best friend, she does not think anything of it and simply picks up the phone.


There were two films that served as inspiration for us in developing our film opening. Among these two was the 1996 classic film known as Scream, mainly due to the fact that the use of a telephone was present in serving as a signal for death. Moreover, in the opening of Scream the use of a phone was primarily used as a method of giving the audience a creepy vibe of someone watching the young teenage girl on the other line, and ultimately resulting in the death of the girl due to the stalker. Thus, we plan on using the phone as a way of communicating to the audience that the individual answering the phone is going to suffer deadly consequences.


Another film that served as inspiration to us was that of Bird Box (2018). The reason this film played a major role in helping us develop our idea is due to fact that the outcomes of the main problem is death; however, the causes that lead to death are different in our film opening. Furthermore, Bird Box (2018) is based on the idea that when you see the so-called creatures in the film, you end up committing suicide. Thus, we drew inspiration from this idea for our film opening because our plot consists of the idea that when an individual answers a phone call, they will inevitably kill themselves.


We also drew inspiration from the TV series Criminal Minds mainly because our film opening uses the same technique utilized by each episode of Criminal Minds. Essentially, this technique is that the first scene of the episode, basically sets up the main problem for the rest of the episode. Thus, we would be using our film opening as a way of giving an example of the horrifying global issue happening throughout the rest of the film.










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