Our Initial Ideas

I am in a group with Sean Canning and Vladimir Solovyev.   

 During the brainstorming process we were inspired by the Dexter opening sequence, the YouTube channel 'Biting Elbows' and previous thriller sequences done at Hurtwood. I was pleased with how we worked as a team and we managed to come up with a plot which is a hybrid of everyone's ideas that we are all happy with.

This is it...
Secretary walks to door (see only her high heels, pleonastic clicking of heels), knocks, enters. Room in complete disarray (blood on walls?), room is quite dark – illuminated by the vibrating phone on table. Secretary picks it up, no voice on other line. Cuts to room where one man is being tortured. Behind them is a man on the phone, staring at it. Cuts back to secretary, she’s saying hello who is this etc, getting more and more panicky, we can only hear his heavy breathing on the other line. Cuts back to man who, whilst still on the phone, shoots both the torturer and man being tortured. Throws phone on ground – camera follows its fall in slow motion. Stamps on the phone – cut to black. 

We also have some back up ideas in case the test shoot on Wednesday reveals any major flaws in the main idea. One is based on a detective arriving at a house – knocks on door – interview with family – a question aggravates them – during the interview they become violent – the detective gets trapped in the house – the family stab the detective – cut to black on the stab.  We also have an idea to show a serial killer's morning routine but feel that this may be too similar to the Dexter opening sequence.


So far we have had positive feedback from other groups and from our teacher, Katie. The only thing that they thought may be a problem is that our idea requires us to use two separate locations which could take too much time on the actual day of shooting, however hopefully we can find two which are near enough to eachother.










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