Wednesday 28th November

We decided that our montage was just not practical so we changed our ending to one of our other initial ideas (we as a group felt that the shed waws not a sucessful location in the opening squence. Also the montage would mean lots of footage of the streets and garden would needed to have been shown-which the whole group felt could ruin the mystery created in teh opening):

As the false heroine is chloroformed there is a slow fade to black. From black there is a fade to a slow track (MCU/CU) of her feet. From this she is dragged out of shot, as another fade to black is used (very slowly). Here we decided could be a good place for the title to appear. This could be seen as an ending, however we have decided to give the viewer more information about the killer's habits/his character by having a fade up to a CU pan (left- right) of Polaroids revealing his habit of killing similarly aged females with similar looks (17yrs, white, brown or blond hair), all tied up in the same white dress (almost like a fetish of his). From this we see just how twisted he is and this is enigmatic as the viewer wants to understand his obsession. Further enigma is created as each Polaroid shown before the victim/false heroine shown in the opening sequence, is crossed through with a red marker. This signifies that he has succeeded in capturing and killing them. As the pan approaches the victim shown in the sequence (Lara), it stops- from here we see the villain's hand come in to shot and cross this picture out. - this signifies he successfully murdered her. The final shot is of the villain pinning up a new Polaroid on the borad/wall- a new victim! (who is obviously the protagonist in the film and more than likely will feature on the DVD cover) This shot will possibly be emphasised due to our editing, e..g the use of a negative flash.

Development of the idea:
We as a group have decided that sound could be used very effectively on the penultimate shot. We think it could be effective to hear a poloroid being taken in the background accompanied by the sound of struggling/mumbling (as the viewer lingers on the picture of Lara). Then the viewer sees the villain pin up this anticipated polariod, and it slowly develops to reveal the next victim. (time consuming- do we have this long?)



We also finalised how our villain was to disappear and then reappear:

Villain Disappears

• Reverse track of girl LS-MLS, tree comes into shot and she rests on it, move into her face – MCU/CU
• Reverse shot – she peeks around tree and looks panicked
• POV from girl, shaky whip pans around
• LS she looks so scared, even more hysterical, stumbles looking around, we move around to a MS
• Jumps to MCU
• Jumps to CU – emphasises her fear
• MLS/LS she realises she need to carry on running and stumbles away

Between disappear and reappear

• Lots of cuts – even more fast paced, heightens her hysteria
• Tracking of her feet + lots of other strange angles etc – general disorientation
• 15-20 seconds of general confusion then he reappears
• During this time there will be no titles – too distracting, detracts from atmosphere

Villain Reappears

• PAN R-L, Girl comes into shot and Villain jumps out from behind tree, she is struggling
• Cut to around 60º to the left, MS girl (Villain’s head is cut out) he is in control – arms round her
• MCU, (pulls hair out of way?) he whispers in her ear ‘you look lovely in this’
• BCU, rag is slowly put across her mouth, eyes flutter shut, she goes limp
• Shot of her feet, she is being dragged

Matt and Alix