Opening Scene Narration - Miss Miller

Chloe Eustace

Opening Scene Narration

Introduction

Group Narrative Overview 'The Hunted":  "The narrative would include two girls on the way to a party, who had been being followed by someone, and they didn't really notice, so when they break down on the way to the party the stalker is behind them, which creates tension for the audience and dramatic irony because the audience know that they are being followed but the characters (girls themselves: Holly is the driver and the story bases around her. Gemma dies in the car from the stalker) are unaware of this. One of the girls gets out of the car and wanders off away from the forest to get signal, and the other girl stays behind which is when she gets murdered by the unknown stalker who has a hidden identity. The setting is in an abandoned street where there is no one around in the middle of the forest." 

We have decided as a group on our final opening scene and below is the full story narration done described frame by frame with the Micro Elements discussed in detail and how our thriller film opening sequence will come together. 

Frame 1: The Opening sequence begins when the girls are in the car and they are on there way to a party, all seems well while the sound being used in this scene is them singing and having upbeat music playing as they are excited which is on - screen sound. The camera angle that will be used is a long shot to see them in the car and see them singing. Editing that we will use for most frames at the moment to make them most effective is a jump cut. The iconography that will be used in this scene is a simply just the car.

Frame 2: The car breaks down on the road as the girls are in the car and they are driving to a party and the car comes to a halt in the road. The camera angle will be panning as the camera follows the car as we see it come to a halt. The sound that we decided that would be useful in this frame is the sound of the car engine breaking down. 

Frame 3: Zooming in to the car as they are sitting on the two front seats now moaning that the engine has broken down, they are annoyed about this now. The setting is in an abandoned forest and they are in the middle of an abandoned road where there is no signal so they can't call for help. The lighting that will be used in most of the frames of this narrative is Low Key Lighting. The sound in this frame again is on screen sound because the music plays briefly and the it stops executing silence. 

Frame 4: The antagonist is watching the car stop from the forest and is watching the girls in general from the forest as they get out of the car and start complaining. There is no iconography used particularly within this opening sequence until the end other than that it is just a car. This shot will be taken from the antagonists point of view meaning that it will be a Point Of View shot from his perspective as he is watching the girls. Sound that will be used in this frame is the sound of heavy breathing over the camera as the antagonist stands there watching trying to plot what he is going to do next. 

Frame 5&6: This is another frame that will be a pom but its a zooming out of the Gemma as she leaves the car and tells Holly that she's going to go and see whats around and see if she can get some phone signal, she actually walks into the forest behind her. Props and iconography in this frame will include her phone and the fact that the setting is in the forest. The whole opening sequence the two main victims Gemma and Holly will be wearing party clothes as they were supposed to be going to a party. The lighting that will be used is Low key and again there will be a jump cut from Gemma in frame 5 to Holly who is waiting by the car in Frame 6.Frame 6 is much the same however there will be a mid shot of Holly standing by the car which is why there will be a jump cut because it shows a completely different side of Holly to how Gemma is. Holly is left by herself at the car while she waits for Gemma to come back at to the car. Most of the sound in these two scenes are silence as this creates tension and it represents the scene. 

Frame 7: Again in this Frame the camera will be a Point of View shot again from the antagonist. Most of the shots that are Point of view from the antagonist will be followed by a jump cut to the victims themselves. This is where Gemma walks towards a house hat she can see as she is desperate to get some help for them. The antagonist follows her but she is unaware of this at this point. The lighting is Low Key and there is again no iconography. The sounds that can be heard is off screen sound as the audience can hear the sound of walking and crunching leaves as can Gemma but it can't be seen on camera. 

Frame 8: Gemma knocks on the door but there is no response which freaks her out as she is scared and vulnerable in the forest on her own and essentially realises that she has got herself lost in the forest. The sound in this frame is on screen sound as you can hear her knocking on the door of the house and then there is silence as nobody answers the door to her. The camera angle here is a close up of the door and Gemma knocking. The location is obviously in the forest  and the lighting again is just Dark and Low Key Lighting. 

Frame 9:  This scene is a Point of View shot in the forest where Gemma is walking through the forest looking for somewhere to get help and actually she is being watched by the antagonist whichis why it is a Point of View shot. The lighting in the frame is Dark and low key lighting. The charcters in the frame is is just Gemma but also there is the fact that the antagaionist is in contol of the camera as he is watching her. There is diegetic sound that is Gemma walking through the forest but also the antagonists loud breatheing and the cruching of leaves. This is also parrallel sound because it is sound that you expect to hear within a thriller opening sequnce.

Frame 10&11&12: Within this frame the camera angle that is being used is again a Point of View shot that is the antagonist and he is filming his feet through the forest to show the audience and I guess to make them aware that it is from his Point of View. The setting again is the forest, and there is the crunching sound of leaves again for diegetic. Editing we decided on for this frame is a jump cut to frame 11 and a jump cut from frame 10 to 11. Again frame 11 and 12 is a point of view shot as well as this is just the antagonist watching Gemma as she goes through the forest and is looking for somewhere to get phone signal and get help, the antagonist is followibng her secretwely because he can see that she is vulnerable on her own. The costume through this frame is her in her party clothes, and they start to look a bit scruffy as they stay in the forest for a while panicing, there us use of natural lighting and the antagonist chases Gemma through the scene.

Frame 13: This frame establishes a shallow focus on holly while she is back at the car meaning that the rest of the scene and background behind her is blurred out, because this gives the scene mor affect and allows the audience to be focusing on just her emotions and what she is doing within the frame. The sound is parrallel as it is silent and there maybe some use of non-diegetic sound as we may add in some music that will make the scene more tense and attract the audiences attention.

Frame 14: This frame is much like frame 10 as the antagonist is again following Gemma through the forest as she goes to knok on the door of an abandoned house she has found, and hopes that there may be people in there that can help her. The lighting is loq key again and the setting is now in the forest where there is an abandoned house. The camera shot again is a Point of View shot from the perspective of the unknown anatagonist, and there is the sound of the4 antagonists breathing and cruching of the leaves. Editing that we will use again is probably a jump cut because the next frame the scene jumps back to the car where Holly is standing and Waiting for Gemma to come back.

Frame 15: Within this frame there is a midhsot back to where holly is at the car and she screams Gemmas name hoping that she is okay and is coming back. The light here is very dark to create tension and the location being the abandoned roasd as she wanders up it. The Mise-en-scene included within this frame is the setting which is in the forest and the lighting as is most of the sequcne is low key lighting and the costume and hair and make up again is the same as the rest of the frames where the two girls are dressed in appopriate clothes to go to a party.

Frame 16: In this frame the camera is focused on Gemma and and blurs the background showing the house behind her and this gives the audience a clue that something bad is probably going to happen. The setting again is in the forest as with the whole sequence and the lighting is natural and making the sound diegetic sound as there is dead silence to build the tension for the audience to build a relationship with the character as the charcater Gemma is vulnerable and scared at this point.

Frame 17&18: This camera shot for this frame is a longshot as the whole forest is being shown and there is cruching of the leaves and the sound of the antagoist walking away however he cant tbe seen at this point. There is iconography of a knife within this scene because the antagonist has already murdered her and he is walking away, the audience can see the knife on the ground. The antagonist walks out of the settuibng of the froest leavibng Gemma dead on the floor however the only thing that the audience can see is Gemma on the floor. Frame 18 is much tthe same however all we can see is the antagonist walking off and away from the scene this being the first time that the audience has seen him because he has an hidden identity within the sequince until the end. The iconography again is a knife and the costume that the antagonist is wearing is dark clothes that mkakes the character look suspicious to the audience.

Frame 19&21: These two frames consist of the camera zooming out from the scene still leaving the antagonist walking away and Gemma still dead on the floor. Frame 21 includes a shot of Holly wandering into the forest shouting out Gemmas name and freaking out herself after she heard Gemmas screams, and now the audience will know from the zooming out that something bad will happen to her too even though it doesnt happen during the opening sequnce.