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The document outlines an idea for the opening sequence of a psychological thriller film. The sequence would begin with a tracking shot of Character A walking alone in the woods at twilight. Character B would then appear in the shadows, chase Character A, and catch/kill him. The sequence would then cut to a flashback of Character A at home with his family before they died, the event that drove him insane. Details are provided on the characters, plot, target audience, filming techniques, locations, and conventions that would be used.
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- 1. Our Final Idea Cristina Shaw and Shannon Lewis
- 2. Plot • Character A is seen to be the protagonist. We first meet him in a forest walking at a steady pace casually. He is oddly dressed in dark clothes. • The audience sees a dark character (Character B) in the shadows suddenly. • Character A notices he’s there, starts to run, and gets caught, (For the rest of the movie we assume that he is dead). • It cuts to a flashback of character A, at home getting ready to go out with his happy family. • We haven’t come up with a good way of closing the opening yet
- 3. Information on Characters and Plot • Character A is insane. This is because of what happened in the past: Family died. • Character B is Character A’s therapist, but in the opening the audience see’s B through A’s point of view: someone trying to kill him and all dressed in black, whereas in reality he is dressed differently and is trying to help him. • The plot is non linear; it starts at the end and ends at the beginning.
- 4. Ideas/Messages/ Themes • Psychological thriller • Message: To show the audience how fragile the mind can be when you lose someone close. • Plot Twist: Character B is Character A’s therapist, but seen though Character A’s eyes in the opening and reality in the ending.
- 5. Our Target Audience • Our target audience will be the comfortable full nesters and reformers as it is a psychological thriller. • We aren’t aiming at a specific gender as it will suit both.
- 6. Title Sequence Our idea is still incomplete and we are likely to change quite a few things. To begin with, the scene will fade in from black and will open with a shot of a pair of feet walking in a forest at around twilight. It will be a tracking shot and a close up. This will follow with the title sequence over the shot of the feet. All will be quiet excluding the sound of the person walking.
- 7. How we plan to film this sequence It is relatively hard to do a ‘clean’ tracking shot with a hand held camera. So we plan to go to the place where we are filming, place down some mats or plastic covers so there is a smooth surface. Then we will place the camera onto a skateboard that will be pushed along the mats so produce a smooth shot.
- 8. Practical Details • Set in a twilight lighting (between sunset and dusk). The problem with this time of day, is that there is a limit of how much time we can film in. • It’ll be cold, so the characters would wear warm, winter clothes. • There would probably be two locations featured in the opening: the woods and the house. Issues that could happen would be getting the actors and each other to these locations to film. • We will need a few bits of filming equipment to get the shots we want, for instance sheets of plastic and a skateboard for the tracking. • We would like to try and include a dolly zoom in the opening as it’s a good technique to present confusion.
- 9. Conventions • We are unsure whether we will use dialogue or not in our opening. • There’s a chance that we will try to add in non-diegetic music to our opening, but it will be quiet and only there to increase suspense. For instance, the audience won’t pick up on the music being there until the chase part. • Settings: The first part is based in a woods which has one, long, straight path with two openings. The Flashback would be set in a house on the stairs which lead to the door. • Costume: Character A wears odd shoes, and dark mix match clothes which reflects on his insane personality and dark past. Character B all in black clothing as the audience needs to think he is the antagonist. • Lighting: We would like to use natural lighting for the woods scene and artificial lighting for the house scene.