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The movie opens with the miniature house. We look at it, and the camera gets c l oser we realize it’s not a miniature. And this is not the only thing that’s startling in the opening sequence. It alters your reality about the world we’re in. It messes you up and you start to expect everything on the edge of your seat.  Lionsgate film, Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema. An ideal choice for my film will be  Warner Bros. Pictures.  I might plan with a smaller, independent production company because  films tend to be character-driven. They’re made with less money, have a smaller cast and crew, they work on smaller sets and have less visuals to work with. These characters are put into realistic situations and must fight through real life drama.  Connecting with audiences requires the screenwriter and then the actual filmmakers to engage the audience into the visual, emotional and moral elements of the story. While the visual camera techniques can do that physically, and while the charac

https://youtu.be/g1e1feo4DUk The opening of Insidious (2010) begins by showing the titles of the production and companies as well as who the film is associated with.This is shown when the titles on the screen are red which connotes to blood or danger. The blood red color chosen is a stereotype for a horror film. The first glimpse of the protagonist as he is just a young boy. The shot pans from the ceiling as if something is lurking. You get a panning shot of the house which give an establishing shot of where the film is set. Also a shadow that moves across the window as the camera moves, which gives the idea of the young boy being watched. The Antagonist is introduces by a shot that zooms into a darkened face only lit by a candle, you know this is the antagonist because it’s the person who was lurking while the kid was asleep The beginning of the opening sequence there is an establishing shot at the location of the new house. This is used to help show the audience exactly where the fil

https://youtu.be/Uq7u5P2rZkY Techniques employed in  Final Destination 2   opens with audio coming from a TV where a news anchor reports on the one-year anniversary of the crash of Flight 180, interviewing a conspiracy theorist who touches on the idea of “death’s design.” The camera pans through objects as the titles fade in and out, a magnifying glass frames the tip of a knife pointing at a photo of Kimberly while a travel journal is covered, its title reading “ROAD RIP”, implying the car crash. A toy airplane hangs above, following back to Flight 180. Lang Editor Lola Landekic Published November 25, Alison. “Final Destination: The Title Sequences.” Edited by Lola Landekic, Art of the Title , 25 Nov. 2020, www.artofthetitle.com/feature/final-destination-the-title-sequences/. 

I decided to make my film a Horror short.  The fear of the unknown is the theme of my film. More specifically - what exists beyond what we can see. This film will use regular characters and settings to make the film feel relatable and realistic. The setting and locations in horror film are often in s mall communities or isolated places.  Anything that connotes isolation or being alone. Often, sometimes places with ‘dark’ history, like abandoned houses, hotels and insane asylums.  Often locations are abandoned houses,  Barnes and farms,  Cities.