The creation of our opening title sequence

About a week now me and my group and done a lot of progress in our work of developing a thriller. We had one idea each and we discussed every idea truly and also looked at what ways it was a strong idea and why it wasn’t. After two days of planning and trying to get a structure of our idea we were ready to develop our initial idea and start to do all the planning, story boarding and so on. Our idea for the opening title sequence is that: it’s a boy and a girl cut between in mix of match-shots and so on, the girls is suppose to be aggressive and is showing the feeling of revenge while she is tearing apart photos of her and the boy showing an end of a relationship. When it cuts to the boy he’s suppose to be calm and is really the opposite and a big part of this is only shot in close-ups not showing too much of the characters more the details and so on. It end the boy lights a cigarette and a match cut is done showing her lighting a photo and watching it burn seeing that the boys face on the picture is scrapped or cut out.

In my group we have started to do the story boarding, props list, actors list and so on. Things such as music  have also been discussed and we come a great way for only a few days even though we are only in the beginning of the creation of the opening sequences.

Before we even came up with the idea of our thriller we all had four different ideas each. All of my four ideas were of the same kind of plot/story but with four different ways of doing it and so on. So my basic idea was that there was this man doing his weekly things in a house and we see him reading the newspaper, he then cuts out an article which he is very precise about he then takes the article down to a basement and puts it on the wall either among other pictures and articles involving death, rape or so on. To this idea I then had several different was of doing it, from a point of view or extreme close-up on hands and so on. To the end of the story there were also different ways of doing it depending on how much you wanted to revel and so on.
After discussing all of our ideas we found my ideas as a strong one and thought that it could be kind of the main story but through my original idea we mixed it with all of the thoughts and ideas in the group which finally lead us to the idea that I told about above.


The idea that was finally approved by the group was brought to the studio boss for approval, if the making of the sequence would be doable and so on. This gave us as a group good and useful feedback which we took forward and in some ways also developed our idea. It might seem that coming up with an idea might not be hard but there are so many details that has to be considered which also changes the situation when talking about the ideas in a group being able to get feedback and so on. After discussing some of the ideas we made some choices was we didn't want for our sequence which was dialogue and physical violence, two things that is hard to make something good of.

History of horror and its genre 1960 and forward

In the beginning of 1960 the movie psycho was produced by Alfred Hitchcock and also includes the famous shower scene. This lead to people being afraid of taking showers and being in bathrooms, a big explosion of screaming movies was also consequence of the film. This develops into what’s called “the golden age of horror” and many famous horror movies was produced during this time.

1968 a movie called “the night of the living dead” and this was one of the first horror movies that also developed the original zombie figure. This was also the age of independent low budget films which this movie was and they therefore made a lot of money. There were no longer as much supernatural things influencing the monsters they wanted to create a more believable view. The director wanted to go overbroad with this movie which also gave a lot of gore scenes and children turning against there parents and so on. One thing that was rare about this movie was that this movie had an Afro-American as the main character, this was something new and also got people talking about the movie. The director for this movie was also George A. Romero which also made a lot of good and famous movies, he also produced “the land of the death” another zombie movie in 2005.

Later in 1970 the movie the “Texas chainsaw massacre” was produced and was also presented as a true story. There was a man named Ed Gain that was an American murder. It was told he made furniture’s out of his victim’s skin and this was what triggered the production of the movie. So the audience was now convincing that this was an event that had happened in real life which showed to be an effective way of scaring the audience. After this more famous and well known movies was produced such as “the exorcist” “the Oman” and “shivers” which all had a quite large audience and fans.

Later in 1978 the movie Halloween was produced and later developed into a classic horror movie with many different versions. It convinced its audience that this could be a true event and had a big hit especially in the United States. The movie was baste on the director John Carpenter own experience and feeling about Halloween. This was the new age of slasher movies and influence a lot of other movies that later was produced.