OPENING SCENE NARRATION - Miss Miller

OPENING SCENE NARRATION

Our opening sequence will be from 2-3 minutes long, and will include different techniques from cinematography, sound, editing, miss-en-scene and conventions.
Our opening sequence is a thriller production.

Our opening scene begins with a black screen, this lets the audience listen to what the opening scene is and what is going to happen throughout. Over the black screen, a voice over will be heard, this is a lady with a deep loud voice reading a news report,the news report opening (tune)will be played first to indicate thenews has started. Her voice is loud and bold and attracts the audiences attention easily, as she speak clearly about the latest headline on the news. The opening sound to the news lets the audience engage quickly, as its catchy and is known to the audience as the opening to the daily news. The scene then slowly arises and opens to a new scene, here the lighting is low-key and very minimal. The background shows a dimmed sky. The front room scene contains a mid-shot of the window and the top half of a brown sofa in the room. The two girls sitting on the sofa discuss the news report and general activities in their life styles. The night begins to darken in and the two girls discuss taken her dog out for a walk. Whilst this is taking place, the antagonist in a white scary mask, appears at the window. The antagonist is wearing a mask, black dark clothing. This protects the antagonists identity and keeps the audience intrigued. The antagonist at the window is only seen by the audience and not by the characters on scene. This is the first showing of the antagonist to the audience and may cause some surprise to the audience. The cinematography used in this scene is zooming in and and a close up, the close up shows the importance of the mask and why it is there to create suspense for the audience. We chose to used a close up and zooming in as the slow gradual zoom grabs the audiences attention quickly, instead of a normal shot which will leave the audience bored and constantly waiting for the next scene to take place. Zooming in also shows the apointed image faster, working better in thriller films, e.g. a ticking clock or ringing telephone, but in this situation a mask. The scene soon fades by either using an transistion or effect so it fades slowly and smoothly, this will then show a scene change to outside. This scene will be gradually getting darker, we chose as a group to use the sunset sky as it is a convention in thriller and felt that from previous research it build tension and brings suspense to the audience. The two main girls will walk down the road with her dog, the cinematography used will be a hand held camera, this will give an instance to the audience that the antagonist is following these two girls and tension will begin to rise on the scene. Everything in this scene (mise-en-scene) will be dark and gloomy to give the effect to the audience that the two girls are vunrable and there is no escape from what they are being surrounded by. The two girls will walk off the screen heading for a dark surrounding forest. This will be a long shot showing the victims full bodies, aswell as the background. We found this would work well as showing the background shows to the audience where they are going, this helps the audience elaborate on the story line. The entrnce to the forest is an impotant scene asthis is the scsne for the rest of the opening sequence. he fores scene will be shown iin many cinematogrpahy uses, for instance the next scene shows the antagonist entering, here will b a mid-shot and a slight zooming in whe the antagonist looks back and his scary mask is shown. A scary mask in a thriller film is a typical convention as it can scare the audience quickly and easily. An editing skill used here will be montage, throughout m and my groups openin sequence will be a montage, this is quick flashes of different scenes, this will show to the audience that the antagonist is approaching and the audience should feel scared and victimised. The opening sequence soon begins to speed up and the pace of the film increases, the audience now know what the antagonist looks like and should feel scaed for the victims, as they have no idea what is following them. A long shot is then used to sow the two girls screaming as the are approached by the antagonist, feeling patronised. This impression is shown to the audience that something really bad has happened, this will also be heard with a back sound track of eerie music, this will be playing throughout the whole opening scene narration aswell as other soun effects/music over the top. Screaming is a convention of thrillers and we as a group decided to use this as it brightens up the whole scene and brings thrings alight to the screen. Music throughout being played in cnoventiona as it grabs the audiences attention more, especially erie as it is creepy and intreging. The lighting in our montage scene reflects to the sounds being used, a bright ligt is going to be shown when flickering from scene to scene so wehave decided to use a loud gushing sound which will reate to this. After this a fliker of the antagonists face is going to be shown iin a tree, here there wlll be an over the shoulder angle used, this shows the victims point of view and eye shot to the audience, giving them the impression that they are in their shoes, feeling wha they are feeling, which is what we want to create. From this short clip we now know that there is no escape from the antagonist and he is surrounding the forest, although to conclude his actions we have included small flashes of another victim, this was a last Minuite decision as we found this brings more suspense to the screen if we introduce a vunrable young boy who has recently gone missing, this audience picture the puzzle together and finally realise that the news report at the beginning of the opening sequence is about him. The boy will be shown on the wet, dirty, muddy forest floor, tied up to a tree. This will indicate that is he secluded by the antagonist and he is almost hunting down his pray. An editing skill used on this will have a blurred effect around the victim and his face will be bright and very noticeable on the screen, this will show his facial expression; scared and patronised. The use of zoom on will also show this as it will show to the audience the intricate detail of what he is feeling and why he is feeling it, making the audience feel more involved. The scene is finally coming to an end and we see the antagonist exiting the scene. The calmer angle is very low and shows an image of leaves and partly some of the upper scene, in this clip you see the antagonist walking away from the camera dropping his mask Infront of the camera, not giving away his identity but the dropping of the mask will be close to the camera, almost asif he has just dropped the camera as he is finished with his victims. The sky will be dark as it has fallen darker from sunset when the victims first entered the forest. Carrying on with our short clips of montage, after this scene we will include another flash back scene of the pictures being burnt on the wall, almost as a montage of the same clip repeated as it is flashing on screen to give a sense of enigma as this confuses the audience as they do not know what is happening.  The final ending scene is