Main Influences

The main influence for our film opening was American Horror Story: Coven. We liked the idea of the characters being dressed head to toe in black, it took a twist on the stereotypical idea of a witch with ragged hair and warts, and took a modern take on it. We hoped by making it modern that audiences would be able to relate to it and connect to the media product.

Our opening will be filmed in a forest, much like some of the clips in the opening of AHS. We felt that the forest portrayed loneliness and also fear of the unknown. The editing of this particular clip shown below includes darkening the shot to make it black and white.

One particular scene from the American Horror Story opening that we really thought would fit with our media product was the part where the three hooded black creatures walked through the forest slowly. We felt it added a lot of mystery while being easy to symbolise what is being shown. It signals a cult type group of people working together, in our case, witches.