Research Post

  Tree Tops

Ideas-

Me and my partner Selena have come up with numerous ideas to try and execute this opening. We have researched numerous openings ranging from the cannibal holocaust all the way until movies like the Ritual. We found the things we want to use, and we will now keep doing research further to establish our filming.

Me and my partner have decided we will most likely do our opening in a forest called Tree Tops. Tree tops have numerous locations where there are scary, spooky, and eerie areas that will create tension. The forest is silent and there are some buildings that appear to be abandoned that will greatly contribute to mis-en-scene and other aspects of the film opening. The Tree Tops park is very spacious and there are plenty of areas that we can film that can create a deserted feeling. It can create a sense of something not being right, unsettledness, and more.

Other aspects that we can incorporate are things like V/H/S filming. V/H/S can easily be incorporated into an area like this because the V/H/S recording method usually already creates a scary found footage tape. In most found footage V/H/S opening sequences it starts off intense and sets the tone and setting and that can be incorporated perfectly in the area we are trying to do this in. Movies like V/H/S and Rec establish this.