Original Narrative and Final Idea Story Board

My initial suggestion to the group for a thriller opening was more of an emotional take on the task. With a lack of action, loud noises and fast paced shots. I thought it would be an interesting idea just to show a relationship between two characters where the violence is suggested not shown.

The intro would begin with all the credits, getting them out of the way, then it would show a crippled man in a wheelchair drinking and smoking, this character would be played by an old man. The next shot was the mans son just staring at him, then a collection of photographs would be flashed up on the screen as well as a knife while emotional music played in the background. This we decided wasn't allowing us enough opportunities to show off some skills in editing or be able to pay homage to our influences.

So after several discussions we tried developing another idea which was about a killer who left kiss marks on his victims, and the intro was set at a teenage party so we wouldn't need to get any adults or younger students to help out in our project. Everything fell into place, we were having ideas of shots straight away unlike the original idea. The element of him being sick in the opening, which I came up with seemed like an original idea to instantly give the impression to the audience that our film wasn't a standard action, it would have uncomfortable scenes aiming to distress.

 The music came straight away, which gave us ideas immediately of how we wanted it to look, the shot types and durations etc. We wanted the lead character of the intro to die in the end, and we wanted him to be a loner, which would be a personality feature him and the killer share. The reason for the sick and isolation was to make audience make connotations about the film if we were to make a full length feature.