Before we came round to filming our opening scene, Alyx and I sat down to discuss the basics involved that need to be sorted out before we started anything. In other words, the pre production. In our first few production meetings during media lessons we sat down and started looking at some opening sequences to movies. As we knew that we wanted something in the realms of horror/ thriller/ Christmas we had quite a good niche to look for.
We looked at opening sequences ranging everywhere from "The Grinch" to "The Conjuring". In the end, we found a good base to set some ideas around. One opening we found that kind of cemented our ideas together was that of "Crimson Peak". In this one, we liked the fact that it was focusing on objects and those objects almost telling the story, rather than action in a scene. And we liked that idea. Below i have linked below the opening sequence for "crimson peak"
Crimson Peak
