Idea Analyzed

We have created an idea for our thriller opening that we hope will engage the audience whilst still un nerving them. I have always felt that these are two of the most integral things in thriller openings. However we have taken into account that we are not shooting a high budget film like most thrillers so our idea (previously explained by Jack). We therefor wanted to make it simple but still effective. We have organized to shoot in two easily accessible locations to help. This means no money coming out of our project. We use one actor who is also in our group which yet again cuts complication.

Our production schedule Tuesday 25th November and Thursday 27th November are the fewest amount of days we could shoot in whist still getting the shots we need. This will avoid any extra complications with clashes in our own personal schedules. Using fewer days also give us a chance to have contingency day to shoot another story-boarded idea if we don’t collect enough footage.

“A camera is sitting in an empty room. A single beam of light swings across illuminating the camera and then swinging back. Cut to a single tray of water with a few pieces of negative film in it. Once again the light swings across and swings back. Next cut to a wall in the same room with lots of photos on it of the same person. Cut to different pictures. Finally have a slow pan of the room giving us a whole look at the surroundings.

Meanwhile, in a forest somewhere a women is out running. it is early morning. Various shots of her from different angles and running up over hills and past trunks and through bushes. Another man is in the forest. he is watching her run. Following her and taking pictures for his private collection. The photos in the empty room are of this women.”

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Our opening has no clear narrative. We decided to do our opening this way after being influenced by openings such as “Usual Suspects” and “Momento.” This devise is used to force the audience to want to know what can happen next. They ask the question “what is coming out of this?” However, in order to do this we must have a clear answer to that question, otherwise our opening will loose the effect that we want it to have and it will look sloppy.

We have also chosen to follow a femme fetal challenging that characters you would normally see. She isn’t Caucasian with blond hair. WIth this we hope to break through a different audience barrier and appeal to more people. We felt that the classic idea of a femme fetal was in many way out dated and by changing this we hope to show our vision of future film.