Opening scene narration. Miss G

Opening Scene Narration

1) The beginning of our opening will be in our stalkers office which is an unknown location but the audience will get the idea that the location has got something to do with the stalker. For our opening scene we decided to started off using fast editing. We are going to do a number of camera shots such as mid shots, low shots, close-up, high angle etc, showing the stalker either burning pictures of his victim or writing about what he is going to do to her. This is conventional because straight away it introduces the character highlighting to the audience he is a stalker. They will be able to see this through the use of colours and costume, diegetic sound will be heard from the audience but not strongly as this is a very quiet scene where there are no movements nor actions from the characters or objects within the scene, we have chosen this as we believe the silent-less will help cause tension within the audience. We have chosen for the stalker to wear black in order for the audience to visualize the characters inner darkness. The back light will help separate the subject from the background, the angle for this back light will be towards the lens from above and behind the subject (stalker), now that this scene is finished, we will move onto the next scene by editing it using the wipe cut effect.

In detail the costume for the stalker is a black hoody, leggings, gloves and black boots. This is conventional because the colour black connotes death which gives the audience a sense of foreboding. We have used low key lighting to help create a shadow which is conventional to a thriller as it represents the inner darkness of the stalker, this creates tension between the audience as they can sense that this character has not got a good vibe and it leaves the audience questioning who this character is. The Diegetic sound will help contribute to the atmosphere making the audience even more anxious, the diegetic sound will be playing along with the movements of the scene to create the realism.
 
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We decided to use a dark abandoned room because when the girl wakes up it helps create an enigma to our story line. It hides the details of the surrounding making the victim and audience unaware of where abouts she is.  The camera will zoom into a close up of the victims face (Dipika) to focus attention on the the victims expressions to illustrate her fear.
 
In this scene dipika will be wearing normal casual clothes, but her shirt she is wearing is white, we have chosen this as the colour white is conventional to a thriller movie as it symbolizes innocence, in our thriller opening Dipika is innocent. Dipika's hair & make up for this scene will be very messy as if she had just been isolated in a room for 24 hours, we have also used mascara and have applied wet tissues to the mascara on Dipika to make the audience think that Dipika is crying, this is conventional to a thriller movie as this will create a relationship with the audience and the victim as Dipika's facial expressions will help build sympathy and emotion, the mid-low camera angle will help annotate this, along with the parallel sound which will help compliment the image.
The colour used in this scene is very minimum as we are trying to show the victim trapped in a room, we have used low key lighting but a torch in the back to help us create a shadow of the victim. This lighting is conventional to a thriller as it connotes that the victim is trapped in a small dark room, it enables the audience to help understand the narrative.
The iconography used in this scene is ropes and duck tape, we have used the ropes to tie the victim up and the duck tape to stop Dipika from talking, this is conventional to a thriller as the audience is aware that the vicitm is tied up and is in pain and the audience can undertake the emotions the victim is going through.

Continuing the analysis from this scene, we have positioned the victim tied up laying on the floor as she has just been kidnapped from the stalker. This is conventional to a thriller as the camera angle is on the floor showing a close up of the victim, this shows that the character lying on the floor is a victim. We will zoom out of the victim to show the audience the surrounding of the room. We will first zoom into Dipika's face so the audience thinks that the face is a normal ordinary character who is sleeping, but as the camera zooms out, the audience are shocked to see that the character is actually tied up.
 

3)The final scene will be a flashback showing dipika walking home through the forest. We are going to use angles such as long shots to show her walking with the stalker standing behind her. We will use the location of the forest because it is conventional to the thriller genre. It highlights to the audience that it is an isolated setting and no one would be able to hear her scream. The time we will film it, it will begin to get dark which is conventional to the thriller genre because it creates a mysterious atmosphere. We will use diegetic sound such as the twig snapping to get victim to look behind her. She notices the stalker standing there and the audience can clearly see this through our shot-reverse-shot we have used. We have also used the panning movement to show Dipika turning her head side to side to see if anyone is there. Dipika then screams and starts running. We are going to make this particular scene effective by using a tracking movement to show Dipika running away from the stalker. This camera movement is effective because it makes it appear chaotic and unsettling. The non-diegetic sound will be fast at this point to help contribute to the tense atmosphere. The final camera shot is a close up on the victims face and the stalkers hand over her mouth. It is then going to fade to black and goes back to the scene where the victim wakes up in the black room. The camera shot will zoom back out of her eye and leave on her hearing the stalker walk towards the door.