Characters, Costumes and Make-up- Planning

Characters
The characters that have been decided are:

• A victim- Possibly a girl which would make it more thriller because of the screaming and the fact that the murderer is a man.
• A murderer- This will be a man/boy.
• A detective- This will be a male character.

Costumes

• The murderer will be dressed in all black with a baggy jumper with a hood. This will allow him to blend into the darkness and the shadows. 
• The detective will be wearing a suit with a mac.
• Dependent on the sex of the victim (which we think will be a girl) will depends on the clothes they are wearing. But they will be wearing basic casual clothes.

Make- up

• The detective will be very well dressed and his appearance will be clean and tidy. This will show his authority.
• The victim will have make up on and look nice at the beginning and in the end the make up will be smudged and the blood will be on her. This could give a reason of why the murderer noticed her.
• The murderer will be scruffy and rough looking. He is wearing a hoody and dark clothes which shows that he doesn't care much about his appearance.

Plot synopsis

We have two main ideas for the plot to our opening, they are as follows:

Plot synopsis A
Character A (a girl) is stalked by character B dressed in black and is followed up a road and into an alleyway. Character A is then attacked by character B in the alleyway and killed. The scene then changes to a panorama of a city/town as a voiceover introduces the detective and talks about the crime in the city and the waste of life. The scene then changes to the detective walking the crime scene and ending his dialogue with a famous quote. The scene then fades to black and the credits appear.

Plot synopsis B
Character A (a girl) is stalked by character B dressed in black and is chased up a road as the scene is constantly intercut to show a detective running frantically to try and save the girl. There are quick cuts as the attack takes place and there is a voiceover as the detective turns up too late to save the girl. The scene then fades to black and the credits roll.

Storyboard- Planning 2

Today we created the first draft of our storyboard for our opening sequence idea. We decided on some camera angles and we decided that the attack would take place in an alley way. We also decided on the order in which the scenes would take place. This is not our final storyboard and we will add more in depth scenes to it.
Group members attended Chloe George and Ben Hunt.

Sequence- Planning 1

This was a first group meeting to discuss our plot ideas for the opening sequence. We discussed the genre of our opening sequence and opening sequences themselves. We came to a conclusion that our opening sequence genre should be detective thriller.
Group Members Present: Chloe George, Ben Hunt and Aaron Capocciama

Planning- Film Plot Ideas

This is a mind- map of our plot ideas for our opening sequence. What we need to do now is think of settings, camera angles and develop the plot line further.