Treatment

Our thriller opening will be set in a forest to get the feeling of isolation. We want to do a close up of someone smearing their hands in mud we want to put a name in the mud, but you won’t be able to see the character. We want the audience to feel uncomfortable with the disgusting squelchy mud. We then want to have a high angle shot if the characters washing the mud off their hands in a stream.
High angle to show that the character is small and we want them washing the mud off to show guilt.

 

We then want a mid shot of someone running in the stream they will be wearing boots and black jeans to show that the person could be a threat . mid, so as not to show the characters face. We thought that the running would make the audience more intrigued to know what is happening.

 We also want to film some leaves floating along a river  to suggest that the commotion is unsettling in the forest. We also want to film footprints in mud, there will be a name in one of the footprints, this will get good diegetic sound and to show that there could be more than one character involved as they will be wearing different shoes, we will use a different kind of shoe. We then want to show a birds eye view shot of a bag being dragged through the forest to create the sense of mystery we will have another name in the trail of  the bag.

Throughout our opening sequence we want to have music through it, we were thinking of a simple piano tune to create a eerie atmosphere. We will have to film this on a bright day to get good, clear, high key lighting.