Final Project: Ideas

     I've conducted a bit more research and I think I have a good idea as to what kind of story I want to tell and how the opening will immediately set the tone for the rest of the film. I'm thinking that the film is a gritty crime thriller that follows a detective trying to catch a serial killer in his home town. The intro will hint at details to the overall story while establishing the antagonist of the film, the killer. 

    There are a few ways I can subtly hint at the story in this introduction so it contains substance and visual cues as to where the movie will go. The first is to have the title and opening credits done in a similar font to the Scream opening, which has a creepy aesthetic to it that I will try to capitalize on in the excerpt. I've attached a link to the title credits below. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_lY5u2XEQA

Another thing I will do is use visuals on screen in the mise en scene to hint at the killer's activity prior to the film's opening. This can be accomplished with a physical or digital newspaper on-screen with a disturbing headline announcing a serial killer being active in the community. 

The third idea I have for how to effectively pull off the dark and tense mood is to show the killer following the person on screen, staying in the shadows so the viewer knows that there is someone there, but that the character on screen doesn't. In my next blog posting, I'll have the beginnings of a storyboard to better explain these ideas and further research to help build on the groundwork I've begun to lay out.