Today we had our third meeting as a thriller production
group and we discussed the scene outline for our thriller opening sequence, we
finalised our back up idea and we discussed other elements concerning our
opening sequence.
We first discussed how the majority of the film should focus
on the police rather than the psychotic man. We decided this because this would
provide more conventions of a thriller and also help the audience understand
the narrative.
We also discussed how we would want to cast teachers for the
role of the police rather than students, because they need to look older and
more experienced. We also considered the casting of the psychotic man and
discussed choices for this role.
Following this, we talked about how we would want to use the
location of a church which has a small graveyard outside it. This would allow
us to combine our two locations and therefore make the filing process a lot
easier and quicker.
We also finalised what our back up idea would be. We have
decided to go with a 999 call made by a child who explains how his parents are
dead although the sequence shows him sat on a bed with a phone with his parents
bodies beneath him and it is made clear that the child has murdered their own
parents.
Scene Outline
This is a rough idea
of what our initial ideas are for the different scenes in our opening sequence;
however these are likely to change when we establish the practical challenges
this idea may present us with.
1)
Pan from gravestone to outside church building.
2)
Jesus on the crucifix or other religious
icon/symbol.
3)
Police in cemetery with torches searching, shot
from between the trees
4)
Shot of policeman standing against tree talking
into a walkie talkie. The dialogue is muffled by the crackling sound created by
the walkie talkie. We can see the graveyard in the background of this shot.
5) Close up of snipper against door of
church.
6) Dialogue between various police men
hinting to plot which suggest that they are scared and that the criminal is
very dangerous.
7) Police man kicks door open with a lot of
force and we hear a loud bang of the door.
8) Peacefulness and tranquillity of church,
juxtaposes against the frantic nature of the policemen in the previous shot.
Organ music and candles, various different shots form inside the church.
9) Long shot from the back of the church
showing the full length of the aisle. The audience see the man in the distance
standing near the altar.
10) Shot taken from behind the man pan down
to knife he is holding which is dripping with blood and close ups of the blood
dripping and the drops of blood on the church floor.
11) The man turns his head slightly then
extreme close up of his face, he does a creepy smile then turns his head back
around the face the altar.
12) Close up of his face from the side when
he is hysterically laughing.
13) Shot of the man looking around slightly
toward the police who aren’t making any sound, in comparison to his hysterical
laughter. He then gestures them to ‘shhh.’
14) The final shot is of him turning his
head back around to face the altar and his hysterical laughter recommences
which blows out the candles at the altar.
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