Group discussion

 Today I and my group met up and discussed the opening title sequence idea, we discussed Jana's idea further, Gite and I  were questioning the accessibility of Jana's idea as switching back and forth between eras could prove to be challenging, due to the fact we would be using filters which could ruin the quality of the film. We further discussed the idea and made a clear shortlist of exactly what we wanted to keep in the idea, this list included wanting to keep an establishing, birds-eye-view shot of the property, we were keen on keeping this as it establishes location clearly and this can set a mood for the sequence, we firmly agreed that small children should be involved as this goes along with the stereotypical genre. What I liked about Jana's idea is that I keep elements from all of our ideas and nicely brings them together; however, I feel there could be issues with the idea from a filming point of view as the transition between modern-day and past could look like it is very low quality as well as we only have one day to shoot everything. Another element I like is the cut back from then the asylum girl is being grabbed to the modern-day girl being grabbed this could look very clean as a cut from past to present.

Jana's idea: 

As we were talking we developed a backup plan, for if we don't believe this will work. Our back up plan is to still have the birds-eye view shot following the car up to the property however, there is a quick cut to an over the shoulder shot of the kids in slow-mo playing hide and seek around the house while credits roll in the corners. To express this is a horror we suggested having the asylum girl creepily in the background, maybe looking at the kids from a window of standing behind them and they don't realise, as this could make the viewers feel very uncomfortable, using slow shutter speed we could make the asylum girl seem less present in the room. Over the top of this, we suggested having dark music over the top of the opening sequence.As we discussed these ideas my group was quite adamant about having a narrative opening title sequence however we have not yet full confirmed that this opening title sequence will be one.