Saim Yasin's Blog

As i have selected the story that i shall be executing i had to know all the codes and conventions that were to be followed in a horror film. So i studied them properly from a site: https://www.slideshare.net/amberloo20/codes-and-conventions-in-the-horror-genre. I learnt the narrative structure and themes that were to be followed e.g death, revenge, survival etc and i also learnt todorov's narrative theory. What kind of sound and misc en scene that really helped the horror film to look good were also important and i learnt those too.

After having ample time to think through each scenarios and stories i have thought about it and i finally landed at story number 5. I carefully thought of everything for example props, location, cast etc. I took all major factors in account and also thought of how all scenarios are possible and not possible and after very careful consideration i chose this story:

 Today I was brainstorming and thinking of ideas on what the genre of my Film Opening Sequence should be and I ended up at horror. I thought of many stories and here they all are:

 This is a trailer I made for the movie "Brothers (2009)". I took selective clips from the movie which I thought would fit best in the concept of a trailer. I put those clips together. I played around with the audio a bit. I took suspense music and stress music from YouTube. You can access the trailer from this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11qMRQkEm1ADDRzBFboYw1dXqayYNW6mH/view?usp=sharing