initial ideas and inspirations.

Yesterdays lesson was spent brainstorming ideas for our thriller opening. After hearing out Rens ideas from his inspiration 'Red Eye' we spoke about keeping the simplicity of film set in a house and using minimal amounts of shots. Ren spoke of using one long shot that could be done in his house, including the car outside, through his hall and into the living room. This we agreed sounded perfect.



As we countinued to speak about the thriller openings we liked what could work and what couldn't, i brought up the opening to the shining and how brilliantly just the traking of the car builds tension. We concluded a good traking scene of a road would lead us to the house in which the previously mentioned shot would take place.



But i desperately wanted somthing a little different from the classic damsel in distress thriller. Out of the blue i remembered a piece of work i'd done in AS drama recently with disturbing music and abstract dance. I thought it would be a creative idea if we could mix the two in somehow and sure enough Ren thought that as the girl comes into the house we have a shot of her dropping her jymbag and a mask from the dace in the hallway.

Our basic idea is to splice the road scene with the credits on it, with the abstract dance and then finish with the ambiguous house scene.

The whole idea is very much in the early stages and could easily be cut and changed depending on availabilitys and time.