Thursday, 8 December 2011

Opening Scene Treatment

Possible tag lines: When you least expect it, Ready or not, Hope to die first, When time runs out; there's no where to run, You'll hope to die, He's watching you.
The writng in blue is the shots that we intend to use.


Girl 1- Tara
Girl 2- Amy

(The first scenes in out film include some dialogue although the music is very prominent.)
[Establishing shot of the house] Starts with two girls in a house, alone. [Mid shot of two characters] Character number 2 says "Where are you parents?" Which girl number 1 replies with "They're away for the weekend, so girly night in." The two girls then walk to the sitting room to watch some TV. [Mid shot as they walk into the other room] (TV has fuzz to show light in their face without having copyright issues of playing a different film in our film.) [Shot from behind the sofa] Girl number 1: "I swear I just saw something at the window, it might be next door checking on me. One second." Girl number 2 replies: "Okay see you in a minute." [Scary music starts playing as she walks out of the sitting room]
[Zooming in shot to the window] Walks past a window where she sees a face in the dark which is not recognizable [Bad guy is at window, watching the girls.] Thinks she is seeing things, so goes to the door to investigate. [High angle shot][Cuts to match on action] as she opens the door and walks outside. [Canted angle tracking shot/ tracking shot] her walking towards a bush. Perspective cuts to bad guy in the bush, with an [over the shoulder shot], and loud breathing that can only be heard to the audience along with the music. [Side angle shot] As she looks around, something quick flashes across the screen and music suddenly has a very sharp edge to it.

[Behind the sofa shot] Scene then cuts to girl number 2 who is still in the sitting room. As girl is watching scary film, [Close up shot] of bad guy's feet can be seen going up the stairs quietly, with no sign of girl number 1. [Mid shot] All of a sudden girl number 2 hears a creak coming from the stairs [Extreme close up shot of her ear], so goes to investigate and sees the door open [Long shot], so goes outside and calls her friends name. She does not see her friend so she decides to go upstairs thinking the creak she heard was her friend. [Low angle shot] to see her walking up the stairs, then turning left. Goes completely silent, and a loud piercing scream can be heard. Shot cuts to a bloody hand going down the window. Black screen title fades in, then out.

News report is then seen which describes a serial killer that has struck again, but police have no leads in their investigation and he is still on the look out. Police quote "hardest case ever been on, man has never even been sighted, but is known by his signature bloody hand down the window of the house that he has attacked." Scene fades to black.


Why we have chosen our shots 
 
The first shot we have chosen for our film is an establishing shot of the house which will look effective as it is our first opening shot it will shows the audience the location in which the film is set and demonstrates the girl’s scary surroundings.
The next shot we have chosen to use is a mid shot of the girls talking, we feel that this is best suited to this scene as we want the audience to feel they are getting to know the characters and feel included in the conversation as they are at eye level with them.
We have chosen the shot behind the sofa as it gives the audience a chance to be in the girls position and see what they see, this will also cause them to put them in there position later on.
The zooming in shot causes the audience to focus purely on the window and means they are watching and waiting for something to happen. This will then build the tension and cause the audience to feel scared as they know something is outside.
The over the shoulder shot from the villain is effective as it shows what he is seeing and how vulnerable and alone the girl looks outside. This will make the audience feel for the victim and worry what the villain may do.
The close up shot of the villain’s feet going up the stairs tells the audience something that the characters in the film don’t know which would scare the audience as they worry that without this information the victims will be in danger.
The low angle shot that we have chosen to use at the end of this scene shows the victim going up the stairs which would make the audience worry about the girl and wonder what will happen next as they know the villain is upstairs.

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