PLANNING: Summary of the opening of the film...

Our film will be called ‘Watching’ and will be about a girl who is being followed by a sinister character. The start of the film will be the climax, when the girl finds someone in her house, after she suspects she is being followed home from the bus stop after work, late at night.

The character, Adele, is first seen getting off a public bus and walking home in the dark and hears footsteps behind her, she speeds up, but so do they. The audience see her walking down an alley which is dimly lit by a street light. She turns around, terrified, and we use a range of shots; a point of view shot (for when she turns around to look over her shoulder), and over the shoulder shot, a long shot and stedicam. She rushes to her house and struggles to get the key in the door fast enough. Once inside, she slams the door behind her, and slides to the floor, relieved that she is safe.

Even though the girl is inside her house, there is still things taunting her, for example, when she is sitting on the floor with her head in her hands, leaning against the door, she hears a loud bang coming from the kitchen. The audience know that she is in the house alone, because she had to unlock the door. She slowly gets up, and reluctantly walks to the kitchen door – she opens it quickly, preparing for the worst, and sees the family cat sitting on the kitchen floor with a saucepan by its side. There is a shot of her, to see her relief as she realizes she is not in danger.
However, this is not the case because she then walks into the living room to see snow on the TV after it was turned off when she walks into the house. Next, the lights flicker on and off without anyone touching them.
Really scared, she doesn’t know what to do, but walks out of the room to go upstairs, and sees a shadow in the corner of her eye, she turns around and gets pushed against a wall. There is then a black screen with the title.

The ideas we have for our thriller have many things in that are typical of the thriller genre. The lighting will be very dark, and we will have footsteps as if someone is being followed that can be seen in a lot of thriller films. The ‘snow’ on the TV screen is typical of a horror/thriller and so are the lights flickering.

The camera shots we plan to use are really varying. We hope to use close-ups, medium shots, long shots, the handheld technique, low angle, over the shoulder and point of view shots.