Coursework Thriller Film Opening 0 Idea

IDEAS

I have decided to work with Micky. Our plan is to film together but separately edit, so we would have two different final outcome but with the same story.

This is the first idea that Mickey had come up with, the genre is going to be thriller and the sub genre is crime. Story:

"First, Dead body found in canoe on the harrow lake. Random person finds the dead body on the boat. Camera pans up to the sun and starts a time lapse with credits running over. Cuts to detectives examining the dead body. Detectives find clues and go back to their headquarters. They talk over what these could mean."-Micky

After Micky suggested the ideas above to me. I disagreed . I didn't think that film openings should have too much of a time leaps and should be fairly close together. So Micky came up with a new idea.

"The victim is still alive. The victim is lured out by the killer. The Victim talks to killer who is in the shadow. The killer then kills the victim quietly and puts him on the boat and pushes it out into the lake smokes cigarette and goes back into the shadow."-Micky

We then discussed a little bit more, I had the idea of the narrative following the killer instead. Micky then came up with the next idea.

"The victim is lured out by the killer. The victim then talks to killer who is in the shadow. The killer comes out exposing himself and killing the victim. Then killer puts victim in canoe and pushes it out into the lake. Daybreak comes and its the killer taking the photo of the scene with the victim. He then walks away before the dead body is discovered. The killer walks away and watches the investigator from afar." - Micky

We weren't sure if we should have narrative over the opening as I thought we could show the characters through the micro elements.

These were the initial ideas that Micky and I had first decided on.

After discussing over the holidays we decided to change our approach. We will not be pushing the body into the lake as we wanted to killer to express he's anger to the victim.

When we went to film, we didn't really stick to what was actually planed we focused on more of tracking shots to build tension and then a climax at the en.

So now the idea is just to follow the victim and with different variation of shots and show representation through color and props.

After filming that day the footage was not so good so we thought of another idea.

We discussed and we thought we should add more dialogue to explain the character a bit more, to make it clear to the audience of what is happening but still keeping the build up of tension and climate at the end.

We discussed again and decided to build up tension with minimal dialogue, as we wanted to explain the character through the micro elements.

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