Wednesday, 9 November 2016

Third Film Opening Idea

Title - The Wood's Shadow
Genre - Fantasy

It would start with a shot in the woods with the camera pointing directly upwards at the trees with sun shining through the leaves. This is where the credits would come, possibly floating down the screen like falling leaves.
The camera would the pan downwards so its pointing straight forwards and is quite low down but not quite on the ground. Everything is still.
Something runs past the camera really fast followed, after a few seconds, by some kind of animal.
We have a handheld shot of the girl running through the trees but we can't see her properly.
We have a shot from the ground of the animal running over the camera.
This continues as we have a montage of shots of the chase.
Then the girl stops and hides behind a tree breathing deeply. We get a close-up of her face and shoulders showing us that she's not human, she's some kind of mystical creature.
She pokes her head around the tree to look for the animal and it runs past the tree she's hiding behind. She takes a deep breath, comes out from behind the tree and jumps into some foliage, disappearing.
The title appears against the leaves.

Possible locations:
Ilkley moor or the woods by my house

Strengths:
-It's all in one location
-Doesn't require a massive amount of acting
-Quite simple to film and can all be done in one go

Weaknesses:
-Makeup and costumes would be difficult to get and do
-Hard to get my dog to follow instructions (she would be the 'beast' as she's huge)
-Not a specific story line and the audience might not understand what's going on

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