Horror film Pitch

For our horror film opening, me and my partner Alice had to come up with a good idea for the opening. we used Prezi.com to put our ideas in categories.

Main idea- we decided to start the opening with two little girls reading a story book, however the wind blows and flips the book pages to a certain page with a illustration of a lake with a boat. the image will then dissolve and shows the real life scene which looks similar to the illustration in the children book. The two girls that were shown in the beginning are now older and are looking over the lake which is shown in the illustration. One of them suddenly points out something that looks familiar, they then start walking around and they sense that they are being followed, this then causes them to realize that they are in the book that they were reading when they were little. They then reflect what happens in the book, the book has a murder that goes around killing everyone that had once read this book. This is what the rest of the movie contains.
We took inspiration from the opening of the hogfather when Susan is reading the bedtime story to the children.

Target audience- Our target audience are females that are 25 and under. We did a horror film survey and from the results we collected we saw that most of the people who answered were aged 14-19 and were females. Also, from the results we gathered we got a understating that most people were fans of horror
films.

Props- We don't have many props, the main prop that we thought of was the children's book that contains the illustration. We also are going to need a knife for the killer, we are going to use a plastic one for safety reasons and so that we don't get into trouble with the police and the law since we will be filming at night. 

For the costumes we decided  to have the younger children using lighter colors to symbolize innocence, however when they are older, one is going to wear white to show the typical victim. whilst the other victim is going to wear darker clothes to represent the more modern victim. The killer is going to wear black as a camouflage to the setting hes in.

Locations- We chose three main locations to film. we decided to use the living room to show comfort, a lake to fit in with the location that the illustration shows and finally were also going to film the chasing scene in the woods/park.

Problems-   I think that filming in the woods/park at night might be a problem as the image might be very dark, but to over come this we are going to try to bring as much light as possible so that it isn't too dark.

Another problem we might find is that our parents have to be free from work so that we have a guardian with us at night. To overcome this problem were going to inform our parents in advance of the dates that we want to film the opening so that they know what day to be free.