Horror/Comedy Video Opening Sequence

Albert Rydevik

General Plot

• Undead living in the water by a private beach, night by night coming out and into the house, tormenting the people living inside.

Location/

• My house in Old Greenwich, CT.

Storyboard

• First Shot: Establishing Shot of the house, from the far side of the water, sun is setting.• Second Shot: Long Shot of a kid looking through the window at the water right before

sun down.• Third Shot: Sun going down• Fourth Shot: Establishing Shot of the house plus water at night• Fifth Shot: Medium Shot of three of the undead wading out through the water. • Sixth Shot: Very hazy Point of View shot from the eyes of the undead in the back• Fades into Ninth Shot• Seventh Shot: A slightly less hazy Point of View shot from the eyes of the undead in the

front, clumsily crawling through the window• Eighth Shot: Long Shot from outside, lights on in house, silhouettes of the Undead in

one room, and silhouette of girl in other room walking into the other room• Ninth Shot: Medium Shot of the girl walking up to the door into the next room, and

putting her hand on the door handle• Tenth Shot: Point of View Shot from the eyes of the girl going through the door, opens

the door to the undeads face very close up, girl shrieks• Eleventh Shot: Cuts to a black title screen, the title shows up in blood text on the black

screen

Target Audience

• The opening scene is aimed at male teenagers and young adults, from the ages 15-25.

– Aimed mainly towards males due to the violence and horror aspects.

– Starting age at 15 to ensure as large an audience as possible for this genre of film.

Style/Tone/Atmosphere

• The video will have a very creepy atmosphere, making the audience feel nervous.

• There will be an on edge feeling through the piece as they go in through the building.

• The video will start off with a slow piece of music at the beginning, that begins to pick up as they get closer to the house to send a tense feeling through the audience.

• Along with the creepy elements, there will be clear horror movie stereotypes that will be really overdriven, to add a weird sense of humor to it.

Influences

• Zombie horror movies, games, etc.

• An idea from a short story I wrote a few years ago for an English project.