Alix
The opening is a shot of a normal, middle-aged (early 30s) man in his house (study) organising/arranging/cleaning surgical tools, and sometimes there is maybe a photograph of him and his wife shown. Then the phone rings and he answers it and you see him pick up one of the photographs, smile (slyly) and say 'I'm sorry she's not here at the moment can i take a message', then he snaps on rubber surgical gloves.It's late (around duskish, or else it would be too dark to shoot) and he goes into his garden and starts to walk up his garden path towards the very overgrown part at the back of his garden towards his shed (with his surgical tools). He scrapes the door open and there tied up is the women in his photos - i.e. his wife.I think the title should be something like 'the ultimate betrayal' - or possibly something a little more warped. I think this idea is good because it leaps straight into the action and because it taps into audience fears - someone close abusing your trust/something twisted going on right in front of you.
Matt
In the group meeting we all decided that the shed location could provide a really enigmatic opening to our group thriller. The initial storyline of this opening sequence that we thought of together as a group is shown below in Angelie's section. Adding to this however, i liked the idea of there being a sudden twist at the end of the sequence. This twist is as follows:(leading on from a shot of the villain's hand opening the shed door and after a fade to black with the film title). The villain would then be seen with his wife/gf tied to a stool with her crying-him standing behind pulling her hair back and confidently saying in a low voice "I told you not to come down to my shed" (or something along those lines). The reason i like this idea is because it is much more enigmatic. If we just hear a scream the audience already knows that she [the wife] is being attacked, whereas if we just see her tied up, it shows that time has passed and we as an audience really do not know what is going to happen next! - e.g. is she going to escape? is he going to kill her? is he going to keep her hostage? is he going to emotionally blackmail her? etc. Although i like this idea, along with the rest of my group, we believe trying to cram all of this narrative into an opening 2minutes would be really confusing for teh audience.
Angelie
I quite liked the shed idea we discussed in our first group meeting. The two main characters in this opening were a young couple. The woman wakes up one morning and discovers that the man has already got out of bed. There would then be some cross-cutting between the man locking the shed and the woman looking for the man. Then the two of them would meet in the living room, and it would be established that the couple have only been together for a short while. Then the man would leave for work. The woman would then look at the shed suspiciously, and then go to investigate it. While she's investigating the shed, there would be some cross cutting between her investigation and a character (the man from earlier on, but that wouldn't necessarily be apparent to the audience) coming towards the shed. There would be close ups and over the shoulder shots of the character coming towards the shed, but none of them would reveal too much about the character. There would also be lots of close ups and reaction shots of the woman investigating the shed, but none of these would really show what's so disturbing in the shed. Then there would probably be a shot of a hand opening the shed door, then name of the film would appear on a black screen (though, we couldn't think of a name for the film) and a scream would be heard, implying that the woman had been attacked. The main problem with this idea was that there was far too much going on to fit into 2 minutes of film.
Liam
I didn't realy like the 'shed' idea mainly because i thought some of the narrative elements and the actual setting weren't very plausable. Although I agreed that the basic mise-en-scene of the shed and the environment it was in was very enigmatic and conventional to a thriller, I thought that it would look unprofessional, especially in with the artificial lighting we would use. I also thought that the audience would be confused at the relationship between the man and the woman, and i thought they would not think some aspects of the narrative were realistic. For example, it would be hard to convey the shed as a negative or sinister place in the opening 2 minutes. To achieve this there would have to be speech from both characters, and i thought that possible lines such as "what's in your shed" were improbable and would seem 'stupid' to the audience. Another possible problem was the actors for thise. Although we agreed that a younger actress from either year 12 or year 13 could easily be made to look around 20-25, we thought we needed a male actor actually this age. However, most of the male 20 year olds we knew were at uni, and therefore their availibilty was limited. We also wanted to get the look and aura of the character just right - we wanted a tall, quite muscly, man with dark hair to connote his evil nature. We found this quite hard, and i think this was the main reason we decided not to go with this idea.
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