Our first concept

From a group dicussion in class we brainstormed an idea for our opening film sequence based on the theories that the world is coming to an end. Intially we got this idea from the film 2012. However I suggested that we should use one of the theoires that I researched whihch said how the world would come to an end. I found a list of ten theories, from which we chose was the idea of "disease as it would be one of the easiest to potray and one were audiences members would be able to understand it easily visually.

Disaster movie – genre horror (possibly teen horror)

Movie title: Apocalypse

Characters: Dead people – At least 10 no more than 30
Group of friends – 3
Other actors for the background

Synopsis: We are basing our opening five minutes on the concept of the end of the world. There are many theories about what is going to happen but as a group we have decided to on the basis of a disease that takes over. Once a person catches the “killer disease” there eye turns a different colour, and the disease takes over their soul and body and slowing begin to die. When discussing the difference between disaster movies with elements of horror and movies without elements of horror it was clear that movies that involved horror had supernatural and horrific elements. It also makes the audience petrified, as they don’t know what’s going to happen. In addition to this horror is the feeling of revulsion that usually occurs after something frightening is seen, heard, or otherwise experienced in our case this will be the ending of the world/2012. It is the feeling you get after coming to an awful realization or experiencing a deeply unpleasant occurrence. In other words, horror is more related to being shocked or scared, while a disaster movie has an impending or ongoing disaster (such as a damaged airliner, fire, shipwreck, disease, an asteroid collision or natural calamities) as its subject. Along with showing the spectacular disaster, these films concentrate on the chaotic events surrounding the disaster, including efforts for survival, the effects upon individuals and families, and 'what-if' scenarios. In our opening five minutes we are going to try and combine these two concepts together in order to create a successful film opening.