The Shining title sequence.

The title sequence begins with a helicopter shot sweeping the landscape. An ominous trombone soundtrack is all that can be heard and instantly sets up a sense of unease.

Another helicopter shot goes straight over a forest. A light yellow Beetle drives across the road and the soundtrack continues to become increasingly ominous.

A helicopter extreme long shot sets the scene, showing that the location is private and secluded. The Beetle continues down it's path towards it's destination. A keyboard with a bass peddle comes into the soundtrack.

After another sweeping helicopter shot, the titles begin to scroll upwards from the bottom of the screen, starting with "A Stanley Kubrick film" The music continues as it was previously.

After a brief series of credits, the main title scrolls up, once again, in light blue text. It is simple and, were it not for the music, would not look at all like a scene from a horror movie. One thing to note about these shots is that it never shows you what's behind each corner, making you wonder if there will be something around the next turn that could shock or scare you.

After more similar shots and credits, a helicopter shot circles around a large mountainside resort, the setting of the film, then cuts to black. It does not look particularly scary, but it does establish the setting and show us what we were waiting to see behind every corner. It continues this trend of refusing to show us everything by cutting to black, leaving us confused. The soundtrack also carries on as it was before ending abruptly with the cut to black.

Audience Profile

The age range is 15 to 50.

The certificate will be 12,  because it will contain some scenes disturbing images for children under 12. The target audience will be male or female, they will probably need an interest in the supernatural.

The audience will probably enjoy films like the ring, the grudge, paranormal activity, the others and exorcist.

The film will probably attract a southern audience because we are from south yorkshire.
It will probably attract an independent audience. 

Evaluation of 15 minute film

Alien

I decided to look at alien because it has a horror/ suspense genre like the gift would have.It begins with a view of space, and slowly pans across to a planet, while this is happening lines start to appear on screen at the top, this begins to spell out alien.  There is a very quite tense music that seems to build up as the title is revealed, it stops building up in tension when a space ship is shown. The cuts and pans are very slow, sending you into a false sense of security , and also hints towards something’s going to happen. 

Inside the space craft its very dim, its dark lighting. A computer screen lights up, and creates a sound. 

  After this the entire ship lights up, and a light dreamy music begins as the camera zooms in onto a room (after the door opens). This room slowly lights up as six pods open, the people in them slowly wake up. The beginning scene seems like a fantasy, very peaceful and bright. All the people are wearing white clothes, which only cover their private areas. The entire room is very white and appears very clinical. This scene uses a lot of fades, this shows us the characters feel fuzzy, and out of it.

After this scene you see all the people around a table eating, once again the room is poorly light, but the faces of the cast seem to be light up from below, or a side, this is a classically seem in horror movies to create tension. The characters are all wearing light shades. The cuts are a lot quicker, and the movement of the camera is quicker.

An alarm goes off and a character leaves to speak to Mother.

You follow him going down a dark part of the ship. He accesses a light room, where he speaks to mother.

He uses (what would have been high tech systems) the computer to speak to mother.

It jumps between him in the mother room to the rest of the cast. This is again a dim room.

It then goes to outside the ship, where you can hear the ships low hum, and Rimley talking through her headset, stating the sips name trying to communicate to another ship, with no reply.

A machine beeps, as they find the location of the signal. They say its not there signal.

It jumps from this scene to two of the crew talking about how they never go to that part of the ship. In this scene they speak louder than any other scene so far. They then walk into the control room.

It then shows you them going to the planet the signal is coming from. It cuts from outside the ship to inside the ship. 

They have some difficulties reaching the island. 

When they do land some electronics spark up causing a fire. Alarms go off. 

Its cuts to outside the ship and shows its very dark, and the wind is very strong, you can hear it whistling. 

Part of the crew still on board then talks to the crew through some communication device on ship.