- The establishing shot that we see in our horror opening is a corpse of a young girl. Compared to the openings that we studied, it does not conform with the conventions of an opening as tension is usually built up to a death rather than seeing someone already dead.
- Much like Scream 2 (Craven, 1997) horror film opening, there is a death at the end before the titles of the film show in our opening. We decided to stick to this convention as it would be easier to build up tension through music, pace and diagetic sounds before the death so it appeared to be more shocking than just a couple of teenage girls exploring a house and there being no zombies.
- Moving on to the point of gender, usually in a horror film opening there is a victim that is female. As our three protagonists are female which challenges usual conventions, we decided a death within the opening would provide the audience with a interest to carry on watching the film and to see what happens to the two remaining survivors in the rest of the film.
- We used more dialogue than you would usually expect in an opening so the audience know what is going on in the plot. We made this work by the protagonists documenting on cameras and incorporating this into the opening to explain the scenario.
- We went for a desaturated colour scheme to make the mise-en-scene seem more eerie and dark and for the corpses to appear more dead, like the colour had been taken from them by the zombies.
- The music used was tension building which helped to create enigma as the audience were aware that something was about to happen, but did not know when. We went for a high pitched, morbid, obscure track with the chase scene and death scene as this made the scene seem more manic and out of control. This style of music was similar to Seven (1995, Fincher) which we studied in our research. For the exploring of the house, we chose low pitched stringed instruments as we felt this gave a good atmospheric horror feel to the piece.
- We used a lot of canted angles and unusual camera angles as this helped to heighten the chaos of the situation and to visually show the audience how the characters see the situation. For example, the handicam shots used by the protagonists. We got this idea of filming from Amityville (2005, Douglas) as it would make our piece seem more realistic
- For locations, we decided to stick to the conventions of a horror opening by using an isolated house and a graveyard as these connote fear of the unknown which is what we want our audience to feel.
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