Our Film Opening Explanation

The Demon Inside

As a group we were very determined to have a serious film opening which explored supernatural activity.

Looking at our film opening, it wasn't funny at all and that's what we were going for although observing a lot of other groups' rough cuts and final footage we thought that ours was very different and individual.

Our problem was definitely over-thinking our film opening, in the beginning we planned to make a film that included a lot of fake blood and fighting, exorcisms and anything that we can possibly fit in the 2 minutes. 

But then we realised, film openings are not supposed to be action packed. Realistically speaking, if we look at a lot of horror movies the first 2 minutes are usually the establishment of the characters, and this is exactly what we did.

We didn't want to have fights and bullying and a lot of stabbing or anything a lot of movies have these days because, that's the whole plot and it's supposed to happen all throughout the length of the movie not in the first 2 minutes.

So what we did, was we filmed two regular girls waking up and going to college. However, one was very girly and we can clearly see that she is the new girl because, we have a lot of very exciting and up beat music to represent her character. We sped up Olivia's movements (character name) to show her bubbly personality. 

Switching to Blair (character name) we can see that she is quite dodgy in the film opening because she wears all black and wakes up and puts on her clothes and leaves the house, very non hygienic and rude. 

Having Blair be in slow motion shows clear understanding that she is the bad guy. Just like any two girls we show their journey to college and that is all. We didn't have any action packed sequence in the first 2 minutes because, that wasn't necessary. If we were asked to film a whole movie then that could have possibly happened but looking at our demon possessed movie we felt like that wasn't necessary and it was just a waste of time.