Opening Scenaration - Miss Miller

The narrative of our opening scene is about a blonde, teenage girl walking home on Halloween night after going out with her boyfriend. During her journey home she begins to feel as if someone is following her, she recieves a text from her Mum asking when she will be home, she replies saying that she is nearly home and will see her soon. At this point she enters an underground car park, this is where we first see her stalker, in the background out of focus. Then the man appears in front of the young girl making him fully visible to the audience and the victim. We can see that he has bad intentions because he is holding a knife and wearing a mask to conceal his identity. The victim is then in a state of shock as she begins to run away, fearing for her life, this is when she is captured by the killer. It then jumps to the killer making his way down to an abandoned shed, there is a lot of low-key lighting in this clip. The victim then wakes up in the shed, tied up and gagged and realises that she is being held hostage, this is when she begins to call for help. The killer then turns the lights on in this abandoned setting, this is when the audience sees that he has set her up for a murder scene, with dead bodies hanging from the ceiling and scattered about the room and blood all over the floor. This shows that the killer has had intentions of killing her immediately from seeing her and that he has killed many people before, for no reason, showing that he is a serial killer that needs no motive. He then begins to taunt the tied up victim by slowly walking around the room with a knife. He murders her and turns off the stationary camera which is set up to make it look like he recording the murder for his own pleasure. The final shot we see the outside of the shed in the dark and rain and the masked killer jumps in front of the camera.

There are a few things we could change to make our opening scene better:

 Shortening phone scene - This scene involving the victim texting her Mother telling her that she'll be home soon was quite long and took up more of our designated 2 minutes than we would like. We felt that this part is not as significant as other clips in our opening scene and isn't too important to the overall narrative so we decided to shorten it. This will allow us to use other clips that enhance the storyline and narrative better as well as the opening sequence to increase in speed and intensity, creating much more tension among the audience, this will therefore make it much more conventional.

Using out of focus shots: We plan on using a lot more out of focus shots in our opening sequence, these will be included when the killer is in shot. This will make our opening sequence much more conventional as a thriller as it creates an enigma, key to creating suspense and tension, as the audience aren't fully able to see the killer and adds to hidden identity factor given by the use of a mask.