Opening Scenaration - Miss Miller

The opening scene of our thriller is the following plot, a young girl is walking home on Halloween night after going out with her boyfriend, during this scene there will be only diegetic sound in the form of dialogue between the two characters. As she is making her way home she begins to feel as if someone is following her, there is no sound during this scene, just the sound of her walking. She recieves a text from her Mum asking when she will be home, she replies saying that she is nearly home and she will see her soon. At this point she enters the underground car park, this is where we first see the killer, who is in the background out of focus, when the killer makes a movement to go behind one of the car park pillars there is non diegetic sound, this is a sudden jumpy sound effect. Then the killer is fully visible to both the audience and the victim and we can see he has bad intentions as he is holidng a knife and wearing a mask. The victim is then in absolute shock and begins to run for her life this is when she is captured by the killer. The next part of our narrative shows the killer making his way down to an abandoned shed, there is a lot of low key lighting in this scene. We then filmed the victim slowly waking up and realising that she is being held hostage, this is when she begins to call for help. The killer then turns the lights on in this abandoned shed and it is then when the audience see that he has set up almost a murder scene, with dead bodys hanging from the ceiling and blood all over the floor. The killer then proceeds to taunt the victim by slowly walking around the room with a knife. Then he executes her and turns of the camera. The final shots we see is the outside of the shed and then the mask of the killer jumps infront of the screen.

There will be some elements that will make our opening scenaration better..

Shortening phone scene: The scene where the victim was texting her Mother and telling her when she will be home was quite long and took up a lot of our 2 minute time period. We felt this part was not as significant as others in our opening scenaration so we decided to shorten it. This will allow the opening sequence to increase in speed and intensity creating much more tension among the audience, this will therefore make it much more conventional.

Using out of focus shots: We plan on using a lot more out of focus shots in our opening sequence, these will be included when the killer is on screen. This will make our opening sequence much more conventional as a thriller as it creates an enigma as the audience aren't fully able to see the killer.