Research

 I have began my research on horror movie film openings. As well as film openings in general because there is a large variety as of what I can do for mine. I have noticed they tend to have a lot of action from the beginning. I was expecting it to be very subtle and only give a brief idea of what the film could be about. One of them was an opening for the movie "SCREAM" and it is the man chasing a woman with a knife. 

Now onto how this changes my film opening. I now have to re think about what I am going to create because I had the wrong idea. That is okay though because this is what the research part is for! I am glad I did it and now have a better idea of what to create. Looking at others films not only gives me an idea of what to create but it also shows me a large variety of others and endless possibilities. 

Doing research as well has given me more motivation. At first my thoughts were very scattered and I honestly had no idea what I was working on. This has helped me get an idea, plan my work, and now blog to speak about it. This is only the beginning so to be able to blog about my process and see how far I have come is very exciting. 

Lastly, I have watched lots of videos on YouTube of random openings. These come in the variety of thrillers, horror, comedies, and romance films. They all seem to be different in a sense. It ranges from someone getting chased with a knife to a woman putting on make-up. This already will tell you what the film will most likely be about or contain. So, this tells me that my opening has to contain a visual of what the viewer will think is going to happen or even make a plot twist.

“Scream.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 20 Dec. 1996, www.imdb.com/title/tt0117571/.