Written Description of Our Film Opening

Our Film opening is based on a horror/thriller which will create tension within the audience.

The scene will set in a park which has a long stretch of pathway where both sides of the path are covered with trees/forest which at night is seen to be eerie and scary. We will be filming at night to create more tension, suspense and horror.

The opening will start with a woman running through the stretch of pathway, scared. She will be seen as a vulnerable as she is a woman and she's being chased by someone. As the woman is running she will eventually fall onto the ground. When this happens their will be a 90 degree pan shot from the side of her to the front of her face, at this point she will turn around.

A focus pull will be used in order to focus the audiences attention on the killer, and this is when we see the person who is chasing the woman but they will only be seen as a silhouette in the background behind the woman in order to create some mystery. We decided that this would be a good thing to do as in most horror films the killer is wearing a mask, or you always see their face right from the beginning and with our killer only being a silhouette the audience will be questioning who it is throughout the film.

Once she sees the man behind her she crawls and scurries off really quickly into the a area of the forest which is surrounding her. Once she is in the forest there will be a lot of diejetic sound branches snapping and the sound of footsteps. As this goes on out of nowhere the woman will be dragged to the side into dirt and mud. All the audience will see of the attacker is the hands dragging the women into the dirt. As the women is getting dragged into the dirt she will be screaming and pleading for help. To end the scene there will be a shot of the scene finishing by looking up at the moon as the audience just hears the helpless screams of the woman.

As a group we decided to do this because we thought this will create fear and tension in the audience. We also have decided to do this because for this idea we came up with suitable locations which are easy to access and film without being interrupted.

Written by Michael Kealy and Louise Ashena