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 the symbol (pictured above). The second scene being a scene filmed in a house, showing the main character (Damien) getting ready to go to work.


We put down some ideas about Cinematography, we have decided to use a tilted angle for some scenes to connote the idea of something being strange or abnormal and another main idea we had was to use a sequence of close up/extreme close ups to portray a series of average actions as slightly more sinister. Our inspiration for this was the opening sequence of a popular television programme 'Dexter'.

We also discussed ideas for the Mise en Scene of our film, deciding on bed clothes for our main male character (a dressing gown, slippers etc..) and a prodominently blue and neutral colour scheme. This colour scheme will be reflected by both costume and prop, for example, blue dressing gown, blue gift (prop). 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. 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, lots of trees and greenery. The 'getting ready' scene, influenced by 'Dexter', will be filmed in my own home as my house has easy access, 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 of the project showed that the idea of a house setting was popular with our target audience.

For editing and sound, a prominent idea was a low resonant sound during the dream forest scene to further convey the idea of something not being 'quite right' and to draw in the audience using tension. At the moment, our ideas for titles is to use bold font in blue alongside the scene in the house, but the name of the film 'Premonition' to 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 effect to create fluency between the shots and give a supernatural, magical effect. We also discussed using a blade sound or a zoom sound whenever the symbol is seen or appears, thus creating a Motif for the symbol so when the sound is made the audience understand the symbol is present or something in relation to the symbol is about to happen.