What we have finally concluded to do in our film opening.

In my group we have decided how our horror/thriller film opening is going to be, while designing our story board we had a brief discussion and suggested a range of ideas. We have decided to name our film "RED JACK" we decided this because the name is quick and snappy which is a good effect for horror films. The "Red" symbolises blood which gives you an idea of what the genre is going to be by the title. We decided to base our film opening on just the titles and the credits for example who edited the film, who the music was by, who got the props etc this will make people want to watch on as our titles are going to be creative, gruesome and effective which will draw the audience to carry on watching the film, the titles will also be linked to the film.

The film institutions we have decided to use are both lionsgate and hammer this is because lionsgate is a very big company who have produced a wide range of successful horror films but not only have they produced a range of successful horror/thriller films but they have also produced a range of successful films of different genres. The film institution hammer is more generalised into horror/thriller films they're most well known for producing such successful popular horror/thriller films which is why we have decided to use it as well. hammer is more specific on a genre which is horror/thriller which is a very good film institution to use for our opening film.

The transitions we have decided to use are when a scene flashes into a next scene and fading out to a new scene these are good transitions to use for horror/thriller films. We also decided to make our film in either black and white or the sepia effect this is because we want to make our film like its set in the time of the movie and not in our modern time, this will be effective because it would be like we filmed it at that present time.

With our film titles font we have decided to be very creative and original by deciding to use our own props for the titles and as it is near Halloween we have decided to use that to our advantage to get the right props we need to make our thriller/horror film opening as effective as possible. For example for our main title "Red Jack" we decided to make the "Red" look like blood dripping to give that thriller effect so we have decided to use the prop of red food colouring as it looks like blood. We have decided to use tea stains as the background of the titles to give that Victorian effect.

Because we are trying to do a copycat of jack the ripper we want a film to look in the Victorian times so we are going to film in an area which looks from that time. We are going to use Victorian costumes e.g. a jack the ripper top hat and a prostitute of those times dress, hair and make up.