Presentation of our thriller opening

Our idea will be focused around one character that has been fatally wounded which shows from her point of view the last minutes of her life. This will be shot fom a field with the character lying down at all times. It will open with a black screen with non deigetic sound which could potentially be the murder rustling around. The black screen will show the first title which then slowly fades into a point of view shot of the wounded character looking up with everything fuzzy. This will be achieved through making most of the scene in a soft focus. The reason why we have made this from their point of view shows what they are going through (dying). This then fades out through the character blinking- again in a slow motion. Another black screen appears showing another title which will again fade into the scene through a blink. This then cuts to a close up of the character which then zooms out slowly to reveal to the audience that they have been stabbed in the stomach. The reason why we have chosen this cut compared to the fades shows that she is dead as she will no longer be blinking. This long shot will be edited in high key lighting as it will show the contrast between the grass, white clothing and blood. We will make the fades (blinks) slow as it will show what she is going through.

Lesson summary
In today's lesson we were interviewed by our teacher when we gave our presentation about our thriller opening. We discussed what our genre was (crime thriller), what changes we made to this decision, content, setting, characters and titles. By presenting our idea to our teacher it helped us decide what aspects may need changing or what we could focus on  more. This is things such as setting, as initially we were going to film our opening in a field, near the canal. Our idea has changed from this as we are now influenced to perhaps film inside in one room. This will help us more in filming and editing as we will be able to control the lighting, sound and picture. However, this may change our lighting as we may want to make the room dark to create a tense atomsphere. Nevertheless, we will be able to focus more on creating the opening of a film, rather than a whole story.