Themes Explored in our Opening

RELIGION

religion is a theme which we will heavily explore in our opening as it is a key part of the plot of our movie therefore we want to reflect this in our opening using a lot of religious imagery such as churches, bibles, an other religious icons.

INNOCENCE

we will also explore innocence in our opening and especially how innocence can be tainted. We will do this through the use of the colour white, particularly with white lillies as white represents innocence and lillies are mainly used at funerals therefore the innocence would be juxtaposed with the idea of death/funerals.

VIOLENCE

our opening will have suggestions of violence with things like blood stains without actually showing violence or anyone being attacked as this will come in the rest of the film, therefore the audience will be enticed with what else is to come in the movie.

Representational Issues

Representation in the horror genre is a controversial topic as horror movies tend to have the most hegemonic representations of certain people - especially through the uses of gender.

GENDER



Females are almost always portrayed as victims in horror movies. This leads to a perpetuation of misogynistic representations of women as victims as they're "weaker".

RACE



Additionally, representations of race in horror movies are extremely one-note as characters in the genre are almost always white. This representation is unrealistic as society is incredibly diverse therefore horror movies neglect to reflect society as it is. This is understandable as horror movies are more concerned with portraying the story and the visceral elements such as jump-scares rather than the social implications of the race/gender of the characters.

Despite this, our group's horror film will be more pluralistic as we will portray a female killer with male victims. This subversion of stereotypes surrounding gender will contribute to a more pluralistic movie.

Mood Board for our Horror Opening

BBFC Guidelines

The British Board of Film Classification have a number of age restrictions on films - particularly horror films as they include sensitive issues like violence, bad language and nudity/sex.
Most horror films are classified as 18 as that means the audience will all be adults therefore they will not be offended by any material used in the horror movie.

I think our group will use this certification as it gives us free reign over what content we choose to show as we may be using blood/gore and maybe nudity for our opening.