Initial Ideas

The main idea for the whole opening sequence is that it will be set in two scenes. The first being a forest scene, which portrays our character having a strange dream (premonition) involving a strange symbol. The second scene being a scene filmed in a house, showing the main character Damien getting ready to go to work, just like any other normal day.

We put down some ideas about Cinematography, and we have decided to use a tilted angle for some scenes to portray our vision of a premonition, and they would then be obscure. Also, we would have close up shots, to make the audience seem closer to the charcter, and his actions which will make our film more sinister. Our inspiration for this was the opening sequence of a popular television programme named 'Dexter'.

We also discussed ideas for the Mise en Scene of our film, deciding on bed clothes for our main male character and a prodominently blue and neutral colour scheme. This colour scheme will be reflected by both costume and prop, for example, blue dressing gown, and the blue gift box. In the first forest scene, we will use a lot of clocks to connote the idea of time running out, and to further portray a sense of eeriness and obscurity. The forest scene will be filmed in Nonsuch park as during some of our location research we discovered that this forest best fits our ideas as it has lots of trees and is potentially eerie. The second scene, which was influenced by 'Dexter', will be filmed in Katie's home as her house is very easy to get to, and she has a neutral colour scheme throughout and a blue kitchen. We decided on a house scene as the analysing of our questionnaire results during the research stage, showed that the idea of a house setting was popular with our audience.

For editing and sound, a kay idea was a low resonant sound during the 'dream' forest scene to further connote the idea of something not being 'the norm' and this will create further tension in our opening sequence. At the moment, our ideas for titles is to use bold font in blue along with the scene in the house, but the name of the film 'Premonition' will appear on its own on a black background between the forest scene and the house scene. At the end of the house scene to depict a symbol appearing on the back of a door, we will use a shot of the blank door and then a shot of the door with the symbol using a cross fade to make the sequencr 'flow' between the shots and give a supernatural, magical effect to the opening sequence. We also discussed using a 'zoom' sound whenever the symbol is seen or appears, ant this will then be known by the audience if there is ever going to be the symbol, this soundtrack will play so they get an incling that the symbol is going to appear, and possibly something bad will happen.