GROUP: Concept Development

         Narrative:

• The main idea for our opening sequence has developed quite a lot since initial ideas. We have settled on the idea of a hybrid between the genres of Horror and Thriller. The idea is that the antagonist has some kind of mental issue and commits murders to people that have sinned or done wrong in some way. He is part of a small secret religious organisation of people who follow familiar practises. The antagonist sends pictures of the victims in the post to the police after killing them.- we thought this would create quite an interesting disturbed feel and gives the antagonist the sense of mental instability and an outcast from society . 
• Our first scene will be a landscape shot at night, this will be stationary and a gun shot will sound. The camera will then cut to slow montage edit of a woman dead on a road, similar to that of 'Brick'. This montage clip will also include a birds eye view of the woman on the floor, she will be in the centre of the frame and there will be religious symbols and markings etched into the road around her body which will have relations to the religious organisation he is part of and will also trigger enigma codes. There will be a prop that the woman is holding. This could be some drugs or blood stained into her hands relating to the sin she may have committed and also creating enigma. The camera will then pan up to a man standing under a street lamp which will be the antagonist. His face will be unidentifiable and he will be putting a gun into his pocket so the audience links the gun shot to him. He will then walk over to the woman on the floor and take a picture of her. 
• There will be a freeze frame shot of the picture he has just take which pans out. When the camera pans out of the photograph the man will be in a room. The next minute will be a fast paced montage edit in the style or Kyle Cooper of certain things such as a map which different locations marked our with pictures of people that are possible victims, macro shot of his desk and equipment, Putting the picture of the woman he has killed into an envelope and writing a police inspectors name on the front, taking pills possibly and other strange things that can be put into this extremely past paced scene. The scene will end with a knocking of a door. The camera then cuts to black and the title appears..we have not yet finalised our choice of typography.

         Locations:

• We are considering using a generally isolated area for the murder to comply with typical conventions of horror and thriller movies, so that the audience can infer the genre of our opening.
• We liked the idea of using mist to create an eerie scene that is mysterious and gives quite a cold feel, this also creates the idea that the victim may be unaware of the antagonist location, creating more of a fright due to the audiences association with the unknown.
• For the murder scene we thought of two possible locations. We thought of having an isolated road with a single street-lamp, as this would provide enough light to film in whilst still keeping a lot of negative space. There would still be small amounts of light which would be good as we don't want to reveal the antagonist too much.
• The second location would be a secluded house. Specifically we would be using a bedroom with a desk for working at- This is where all of our macro and title clips will be shot. 
• The antagonist will be wearing a black suit and shirt, this is so the audience identify his quickly at the antagonist as we found in our research of openings this is commonly the case.
• Our murder victim will be dressing in casual brighter clothes to contrast the blood with her costume and also portray her as innocent which is common in films of similar genre.