planning: opening scene narration

The unknown massacre

The scene begin with medium shots for the introduction of characters and opening credits. The use of a medium shot will show each characters body language and costume so the audience have a better understanding of their characteristics and personalities. A panning will be used to go from one character to the next in slow motion as they will be frozen. In addition music will cued as this happens when the first character is shown. 

There will be a a straight cut after the introduction of characters where we show an over the shoulder shot of one of the friends watching the other friends whilst they're filming from a distance. He will be wearing all black and will be breathing heavily giving the audiences first impression that he's will be that he's an antagonist. The next camera shot will be from the point of view of the ' antagonist' which will show him walking towards the group of friends; this will be conventional to the thriller genre as the audience still don't know that he's really just a friend going to scare them in addition building tension at the same time. The sounds will be the crushing off the twigs on the floor, birds and owls howling as the forest comes to life at night and the heavy breathing from the mysterious friend.

Furthermore the next shot will be of the group laughing and joking about untill you slowly see the mysterious friend appearing in the background within the frame of this shot and scare them as a joke this will make the feel audience relieved for the fact that it wasn't the actual antagonist. The only dialogue would be the girls screaming "oh my god" and everyone else shouting showing that they were frightened. As the scene goes on panning shots will be use to show movement and wipe cuts to skip some of the walking as the opening scene duration will only be 2 minutes long. As they're walking to find a better spot to film they begin to make fun of the nerds clothes and it doesn't get any better, the nerd then trips over a log/or a piece of wood where you'll hear even more laughter from the group. A medium shot will then show him running away from the group.

A dissolve cut to go into the next shot will be introduced showing that time has passed and the group are in the same place waiting for him, unfortunately he doesn't the group decide to split up and search for him. As they're out in the forest to record a thriller its the nerd who has possession of the camera in addition he always recording and capturing things on camera and whilst doing this he gets killed by the antagonist. However before he died he managed to capture evidence on his camera of him being attacked as the couple will later on find it when they see the nerds dead body with blood all other him and the camera still on his neck.

Near the end of the opening scene  the couple and the group of friends end up not trusting each other as one member of the boys also go disappearing so each side thinks that its them. Furthermore as they all go out running extreme long shots will be introduced to show their surroundings and screaming for help, this results in them becoming targets as it makes it easier for the antagonist to locate where they are and in the mean time the speed of editing will increase to represent the fact that tension is building. 

At the end of the opening everyone is killed apart from the boy who came late earlier in the scene, who the audience thought was the antagonist, is then tied to a chair. We will see a blackout and a point of view shot from the antagonist looking down at him to show that hes weak and hopeless and that will be the end of the opening scene. The result of this is that it will leave the audience asking themselves many questions such as who was the antagonist? whats going to happening to the boy? etc making them wanting to continue watching the rest of the movie which is why this opening is conventional to the thriller opening.