Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Opening scene narration - Miss miller

Our opening sequence will start with a establishing/long shot of the house.  We will layer natural/low key lighting over this. And there will be an eerie whistling sound of the wind, which is a non-diegetic sound. We will then begin to zoom into the house, then use a straight cut to change into zooming down a hall way of the house. We will see conventional iconography on the walls such as a knife and blood. Again low key lighting will be used, however we will have brighter lights of the main iconography. None of our characters will be seen yet. We aim to use contrapuntal sound of this frame of creepy but happy music. A wipe editing technique will be used to go to the next frame which is a point of view, going towards a door as if they are the antagonist going into the door. A non-diegetic sound will be used for this and that sound will be the creaking of a door. A dissolve shot will be used to go into the next frame which is a stedicam shot of the sideboard in the house. The iconography seen will be a broken picture of the killer and his mother when they was younger with blood on it. Non-diegetic sound will be layered over this of child hood music and playing sounds. A spot light will be on this photo to highlight it from the rest of the frame.
Following this, a jump cut will be used switch to a long shot of the antagonist, in a room in his house, looking at polaroid photos of presents and previous victims on the wall. We are going to layer low key lighting over this frame. One of our characters, the antagonist, is going to be in this shot. He will be wearing all black and dark clothing with gloves on. Mumbled speech is going to be layered over this frame which is a off screen sound. Furthermore, we will use a linking shot to go to an over the shoulder shot of the antagonist looking at the  images and circling the last photo. This will be in the same room as the previous frame. The screeching of the pen will be heard in this shot, which is a non-diegetic sound. Another linking shot will be used as the camera begins to zoom into the photo of the current victim. Obviously, the photo is the iconography that is seen in this frame is the photo. The danger for the victim will be show be low-key lighting being layered over this frame. A whoosh noise of non-diegetic sound will be used over this frame. A jump cut will quickly change the frame to a close up of the victims face and this will slowly begin to zoom out to reveal more of the victims circumstances. It will go from the photo of her to her in real life. The iconography used will be duck tape over the victims mouth. Harsh lighting will be used above the head of the victim, looking down onto her. Our victim character will be seen in this frame. We decided that we was going to use no sound over this, complete silence. A dissolve editing technique will then be used to go to the next frame.
Which will be a long shot to show the room and surroundings of the victim, it is also going to reveal blood/previous victims clothing/photos, which is going to show the audience that the killer has killed before. We decided to use bright harsh lighting to expose the victim, the lighting will be similar to that in an operating room. Also we will use an on-screen sound of breathing over this frame. To follow this the long shot will remain the same to show the victim escaping from the rope she was tied with. The same iconography will be seen as in the frame before as it is going to be in the same room. And the lighting will remain bright and harsh. Then it will fade into a long shot of the girl tiptoeing out of the killers house. No iconography will be seen in this shot. Also the lighting will be low key as the girl is trying not to get caught. We will use a non-diegetic sound of a floor creaking in this frame. We will then use linking of a section to go into another long shot of the girl opening the door in the abandoned house so that she can escape. The lighting will remain low key.
Then we will use a mid shot of the antagonist just after he has realised that the victim has escaped, he will be wearing a mask and dark/black clothing. In the background the polaroid iconography will be seen. To show the darkness of the situation will are going to layer low key lighting over this frame. The sound will go from silence to a high pitch screeching noise to show the panic rising of the antagonist. We will then use a jump cut to go to the next frame. We are going to use panning to show the victim running out of the house and through the forest, as this will show her situation. We are going to layer low key lighting over the frame. The music that we are going to layer over this frame is going to be face and slow pace to represent the victim and the antagonist. Similarly to this we are going to use a straight cut to show the antagonist walking quickly through the forest. No iconography is going to be seen in this frame, apart from the antagonist himself who will be wearing dark clothing and a white mask. We are going to continue the fast and slow pace music in the frame. Another straight cut in going to be used to change to a point of view/handheld to show the scene from the victims perspective. From this shot we will see what the victim would be seeing and too add to the effect of this frame we are going to layer heavy breathing and footsteps as the sound in this frame as this would be the sound that they would hear.
Similarly to the following frame we will the switch to a point of view/handheld from the antagonists perspective, which will show the victim running in front of him. This frame will be set in the forest. Natural and low key lighting is going to be used in this frame. And we will be hear the footsteps and heart beat of the antagonist, which will be considerably slower then the victims. A straight cut will then be used to switch to a long shot of the victim falling over a stump in the forest. The lighting will be low key and dark in this shot to show the danger for the victim. We will hear a gasp and screaming in this shot. A reaction shot will then be used to switch then frame to a close up of the girls face showing her reaction to falling over in the forest. The lighting will remain low key and dark. Also the sounds will remain similar of heavy breathing, gasping and crying. Following this a jump cut is going to be used to switch to a mid shot/ over the shoulder shot of the girl getting dragged backwards in the forest. The lighting will remain dark and low key as like in the frames before. No iconography is going to be seen in the frame. Both of our actors will be seen in the frame the victim and the antagonist, however not all of the antagonist. We will only hear a scream from the antagonist.
Our final frame is going to be similar to the first frame which is a long shot of the killers house, it will start zoomed in and slowly zoom out. No iconography will be seen in the frame. We will have natural low key lighting. The sound that we will layer over this frame is going to be an eerie whistling of the wind.

1 comment:

  1. You have provided an excellent recount of your group's opening scene narration, explaining what happens at each stage.

    You need to:
    1) Double check spelling and grammar, especially with regards to terminologies

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