Opening Scene Narration (Georgiou)

Opening Scene Narration

For our opening scene we decided to started off using fast editing. We are going to do a number of camera shots 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. The stalker is going to be dressed in 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 decided to use low-key lighting in this scene so it created strong shadows building a mysterious atmosphere. The non-Diegetic sound will help contribute to the atmosphere making the audience even more anxious.

The next scene is where dipika (victim) is kidnapped and the audience can see she has been held hostage. The camera shot starts off zoomed in on her hands where you can see rope tying them together. This is conventional because the use of iconography shows she is captured and cannot escape. Straight away it highlights to the audience that she is the victim in the thriller. The camera will then start to slowly zoom out revealing more rope tied her feet and arms up. She starts of lying on the floor when she wakes up and remembers what happened to her. The camera shots are effective because the audience we able to see the victims facial expression allowing them to build up a relationship with the character. This is conventional because it make the audience experience the same fear and the victim. We are going to use low-key lighting in this scene because it helps hide details about the room she is in and it shows the shadows of the stalker and her against the wall. Non-Diegetic sound will be super imposed to help build suspense. The speed of the sound will be slow to match the camera shots and gradually build a creepy atmosphere. At the end of the scene the camera is going to zoom back in onto the victim and stops when it only shows dipikas eye. We will edit it to dissolve suggesting to the audience it is going into a flash back to reveal what happened to her the previous day.

In the flashback the victim is walking to her friends how to pick up some homework. The camera starts of zoomed in but zooms out as she walks closer towards the camera. We will use a number of different camera shots to show the victim watching her walking to the house. One camera shot will be a low angle where the camera is place on the floor and the stalker walks past showing only their boots. The other one is a point of view shot behind a tree showing her walk up onto the drive. These camera shots are conventional because it conceals the identity of the stalker creating an enigma and making the audience anxious. Once dipika rang the door bell the camera will show her friend (Ayesha) sitting on her laptop. As she answers the door the cameras will go onto a close up showing the door unlock. Both girls exchange a conversation and the friend leave the victim to collect the book. Dipika then receive a text from an unknown number asking about the book her came to collect. She dismisses it and carrys on. The non-diegetic sound gets louder and harsher as the victim receives the text because it makes the audience think something bad will happen building suspense. The victim was dressed in normal clothes a girl would wear making it seem more realistic. Dipika wore a white jumper which connotes her innocence. This contrasts with the stalkers outfits highlighting the generic character roles.

The next scene will show 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, screams and starts running. We are going to show this through a hand held camera shot. The camera shot 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.