In todays lesson we finished our storyboard and explained the camera angles and what the characters would be doing in each shot to give us a better understanding when we come to filming our opening, as when we look at the storyboards for help when filming we have a full understanding of what we want to portray in the opening.

Our story board is very essential for our opening because for example if we started to film our opening at dusk as planned, and our group had not produced a story board then in the limited time we would have to film our opening in the correct time of day, then if would take a lot longer to decide what camera movements to use, what props to use and when and what dialogue should be added in the opening, this would leave us with an un-organised 2 minute opening produced not to our best abilities.

Whereas from the story board it gives us an idea what we aim to produce and capture from our final opening.

Pitch!

Today, us as a group presented our presentation in front of the other groups. In the presentation we included the synopsis, the characters and the camera movements and settings that we want to include in our horror opening. Our presentation was to pitch our opening to the other groups giving us an idea if our film was on sale, whether or not it would be suitable for its target audience, showing us whether or not we had created ideas and over all decisions correctly on our opening.

When the other groups who also decided to choose the horror genre as their opening, presented their pitches it was interesting to see that it was familiar to our ideas that we as a group decided to include in our own horror opening, this ensured us that we were including the correct things and made us further develop our ideas and skills that we would include in our opening. For example the camera movements, at the beginning of our opening instead of just using a long shoot or a medium-close up, we used a pan shot to emphasis our chosen genre to the audience.

In todays lesson, we watched and observed the other groups presentations and their final ideas and synopsises of their entire beginning, middle and ending of their chosen genre films, and then in full detail of their opening including camera shots, setting e.c.t.
This gave us a full understanding of other genres and stereotypes that convey them. There was not enough time to show our groups presentation and share our ideas with Mr Cramb and the other groups, so we are showing us next week.

Durring todays lesson, our group finished our draft of our script for the opening to our horror which we called "The Ouija Board" we started and finished our presentation which will be showing Mr Cramb and the other groups are over all ideas on our opening this will include:
the setting
the characters
the props
the synopsis
the script
the camera movements
that we as a group decided for our final opening.

Within todays lessons, our group completed our synopsis and decided and listed the characters and their personalitlies and props needed to complete our opening to our horror film. With a more clear idea of what our opening is going to include and look like, we are more confident on how we can achieve the best grade possible on it.
Our synopsis gave us the complete narrative, letting us explore and develope on our opening planning within the next couple of lessons.

We researched the elements to a good horror genre and we developed on the ideas to ensure that our opening would portray a horror theme to the audience. From the research we got a good understanding of what the characters personalities and appearances would need to be like to be most effective in our opening, we considered this as we chose our final characters for our opening.