Rough Cut

This is the rough cut of our thriller opening; we have tried our best to stick to our storyboards and shot list which we prepared before filming. over all we feel we have portrayed our story line clearly through the shots we have sued but we also know there are a a fair amount of things that we need to do on our final cut to improve the opening.

Mise-en-scene

We plan to use a small variety of props within it our narrative, including:

A set of keys, these keys are used to open the isolated room where the stalker keeps all his guarded information about the victim. 

A timetable, this scrappy timetable is significant because this where the stalker presents his information on where the victim is, when she's there and who she's with. This will be used a few times in the opening sequence. 

A phone, the phone is held by the girl being stalked, Lucy, and is used toward the end of the opening credits where she receives a text from an unknown number.  

The costume we plan to use is normal, casual clothes for the victim to allow the audience to relate to her and create a sense of realism.

The villain will not be shown completely in the opening sequence however parts of the villain will be shown; we aim to dress the villain in dark clothing to create a sense of mystery and to create a clear contrast between the victim (coloured, casual dress) and the villain (dark, obscure dress).

We have also created a contrast between the two protagonists by using a vary of lighting depending on which character is being shot; 

When the victim is being shot we have used bright, natural lighting to allow the viewer see and recognise her with ease, this sharp lighting doesn't give her any opportunity to hide away or blend in to the background of the shot. Giving the suggestion that if she cannot hide from the  viewer she definitely cannot hide from the stalker. 

Where as all shots of the villain are darker and clouded making it more difficult to see the villain, this links to his secretive persona and suggesting that if the viewer finds it difficult to see him and hardly know what he looks like the victim has no chance of suspecting that he is stalking her.    

Anamatic

We created a story board to display our camera shots we aim to use in our opening sequence; this enabled us to have a rough idea of what our final opening sequence will look like. We then took pictures of each box in the story boards and selected them all together, ran them on a loop, added zooms and fades  which eventually lead to us creating a short anamatic. Creating this anamatic gave us a clearer idea of what our rough cut will look like, helped us arrange the order of our shots and let us experiment with different angles that we could incorporate into our opening sequence.    

Narrative

Our narrative consists of a teenage girl called Lucy being stalked and molested by an anonymous character close to her, this person collects numerous photos, items and information about Lucy and builds up his own personal fact file about her and her life. In our narrative we have two main characters involved: 

• The Anonymous stalker - an anonymous character who we know is stalking Lucy, but we are unaware of who he/she is.
•  Lucy Jackson - Lucy is a middle class teenage girl attending college, who is the character being stalked. 

The reason we chose to base our storyline on a stalker is because its a typical thriller based type of narrative which we feel we could create successfully with the help of other previous and similar style stalked based films.

In our opening credits we plan to give the suggestion of there being a stalker by filming shots of someone gathering information and images of a teenage girl and working over them, we aim to include shots of him reading over previous recorded notes, forming new notes, scanning through written texts and flicking through images of this girl and others close to her. We then plan film the stalker watching Lucy walking home from college. We plan to show elements of the stalker including close ups of hands, feet and the side profile of the face/back of the head, we feel this would be effective as it gives an insight of the stalker but still allows this person to be an unknown figure, which creates mystery.

Credits

We originally planned to involve our credits by setting them on objects within the room at the begging of the opening, for example the directors names would be wrote in chalk on the wall of the stalkers isolated room, the actors starring within the sequence typed on a document, the film company spelt out in objects on the floor also within the room and the name of the film printed on the face of the scrapbook the stalker uses to collect his information.  

However we tried some of these methods of presenting our credits and didn't feel they looked professional enough, after some consideration and plenty of trial and error practice we found an effective way to display our credits. 

We used a text displaying application on windows paint to write the credits and filmed this from the computer screen as it was being written on to the black background, we purposely filmed these section of the sequence in a shaky, distorted manor to add to the creepy, chilling effect we aimed to create. 

Setting

For our location we aim to set the teenage girl, Lucy, in an ordinary house hold environment in an urban setting to create realism, but we plan for the stalker to be mostly shot in an old rustic shed in a rural setting to create the sense that he is isolated suggesting secrecy.

We have captured some images of some of the places we plan to use; we have chosen this dull, worn, eerie shed located at the bottom end of a long garden, we felt this was perfect for our stalkers base where he does all his secret work and keeps all his closely guarded information.

We also chose this long, thin pathway leading up to the shed to film the stalker when he is walking at the beginning of the credits.

     

We also plan to film the parts where the victim is being stalked in this park; we chose a park because we though it was would appear to be a natural environment which we felt would create verisimilitude. 

Production companies

The production company we have chosen to represent our film is New line cinema; 

we have chosen this company because it has produced many other successful thriller films such as the Final Destination series, the Rush hour series and Se7en. All of which are on going successes so we feel it would be a suitable production company to use for our thriller.

instead of typically using the original new line cinema anamatic we have created our own to use to stick to the consistent theme we have created for our opening sequence:

We used a text displaying application on windows paint to write the text and filmed from the computer screen as it was being written on to the black background, we purposely filmed this section of the credits in a shaky, distorted manor to add to the creepy, chilling effect we aimed to create.