Opening scene

Brief summary of idea

The opening of the scene will be a flash-forward to the end of the film (cyclic structure) as it will hook the audience and question what has happened.

The first thing the audience will see is the footsteps of the killer walking into a police interview room. It will pan up the back of his legs to reveal the handcuffs tied around his hands. The noise of the footsteps will be the only noise heard they would be very loud and counteract any other sound. Next will be the girl’s footstep that is also going into a room to be interviewed. Her footsteps will be light and silent, as it pans up her body her hands are shaking and cuts on her arm are revealed. This will be shot very slowly to create tension. These two shots will be cross-cut as they will flick back and forward every couple of seconds.

As the door opens for both of them the girl goes and sits down in one room to be interviewed whereas in another room the killer has his handcuffs taken off and he sits down and gets interviewed.

In our opening scene there will be barely and dialogue just the sounds of the handcuffs being taken off, the footsteps ECT…

Throughout the next minute or so the shots will flick back and forward to the girl and the killer. Currently they are both in a room on their own therefore they are both extremely nervous. Some of the things they do are:

·        Interview of killer: walking into a room to be interviewed, wearing handcuffs, finger tapping, foot tapping, cleaning glasses, looking uncomfortable and nervous, heart beating, drinking water, wiping his forehead with a tissue.

·        Interview of the final girl: covered in cuts and bruises, in shock so not speaking, crying, using a tissue to wipe her tears, too afraid to say anything.

We will cross cut between the 2 police officers walking into the 2 separate rooms and starting the 2 interviews. We will include dialogue here of the police officers saying ‘police interview conducted at 04:23”

The last thing we see in the opening scene is killer looking up into the camera and laughing (zoomed in shot)