Coursework (so far)

Well so far for my media studies AS coursework, me and my group have been told we have to create an opening to a film of any genre, which is a miniumum of 1 minute 30 seconds and a maximum os 2 minutes. The first thing we decided on was of course a genre. We chose thriller/horror simply because we are aware of the elements included in this type of opening and from watching other examples of student's work, this seemed the easiest type of genre to produce.
The next thing we had to decide on was a plot to our 'film'. We instantly came up with very stereotypical openings, like a girl running through the woods and being chased. We developed this into a group of teenagers all camping in the woods and one of the group is murdered. The only problem with this idea is that it was extremely similiar to another groups idea, and although we could have stuck with it, we felt in a way that our great plan had been stolen and we wanted to top this originial idea.
We have finally ended up with a film about a girl being stalked and idoloised by her neighbour, and the opening will include images of the girl upon a shrine, to show an obsession with her. We will leave the neighbour as anomymous. This idea led us to the creation of a name for our film. It will be called Mr Anomynous.
A member of a our group has allowed us to film in her home and we have yet to arrange a date for this as we have a lot to do before then! The next thing we intend to do is research the type of film companies that create films with a thriller genre so that we may include this perhaps in our film.