Initial Ideas For film Opening

Our initial ideas start with a women in her home, who lets her dog out in the early morning, winter time and comes face to face with a man in a mask. I imagine having a wide shot of the two characters similar to this one from Moonrise Kingdom…

I like the effect of it being so symmetrical as we can see both characters looking at each other from a distance. It makes the meeting more shocking and arises a sort of unease in viewers. I imagine the duration of this shot quite long to build tension, especially as we see our film opening as a thriller.

I like the scene above, as there are two characters that meet for the first time in a long time, which is similar to what we want to happen in our opening. We see shot- reverse- shot as the characters converse, although in the opening of our film we feel there should be little or no dialogue to create suspense and mystery. But the flicking of the camera back and forth between the characters I imagine would unsettle the viewer and create tension. If the shots are drawn out too, viewers will want to know what happens next, although there will be no NEXT.

We imagine our film opening happening on a winter morning, where the light is bright but when it is misty, and where you see your breath fog out in a cloud in front of you. I imagine close ups on the woman's face and her breath disappearing into the garden, where the scene will take place. We imagine the scene being a sort of flash forward, where in the beginning viewers witness a scene further in the movie, so that they keep watching to find out where this scene fits into the movie as a whole..

Here is the pitch we made to class…