Story line research

 Making a storyline to base our opening in is more complicated than I thought. My teammate and I don't want to go off another movie and change it up a bit, so we decided to do some research on how to create a horror story line. 

While researching I came across this website called "MasterClass". This website included many great tips to help me create an original  story line such as avoiding cliches and using my own fears in the story. In addition, "MasterClass" also gave me information on how to make a scary plot line, this is by adding proper pacing and unexpected twists. In my opening I would like to show off the monster at the beginning of the opening to catch the audience's attention due to the unexpectancy.

I kept researching because I felt like I needed more to create my story line. Reedsyblog helped me add that extra padding to my story by going in deeper on how I wanted my story to plan out. I had an idea in mind but I wanted my story to be different from the other horror stories, I wanted my audience to experience the feeling of unsafety no matter where Frank "main character" was at. This is why I thought a shapeshifter would be the best monster/villain to have in my story. A shapeshifter is a mythical creature that can transform into any living organism, my idea was that the shapeshifter would camouflage in Franks life as a teacher, friend, or his own family. This had a great result because it gave me a free range on when and where the shapeshifter would attack.