The narrative

The narrative 
After disregarding our idea based in the woods, today we began to plan a different idea. This time we decided that an effective setting would be a normal house/room but by making the characters and actions creepy and abnormal this would add tension and make people uneasy, leaving them on the edge of their seat wanting to watch more.

The main antagonist will get out of the shower (in a dressing gown or towel) and walk over to a mirrored cupboard in the bathroom. He'll look in the mirror and an over the shoulder shot will allow us to see his face. He puts on a watch and we hear the ticking, loudly. Inside the cupboard there will be rows of pills in bottles and needles and he'll take one off the shelf and swallow it. The ticking sound will then become more muffled and it will represent the noises in his head being tamed by the medication. He will proceed to get dressed into a suit and in getting ready will put on unusual items maybe including a weird ring. He will walk into his bedroom where the whole of one wall will be covered in pictures of girls, newspaper clippings and articles of missing person cases. The rest of his room will be immaculately clean and tidy, like he had OCD, however this wall will be busy and draw the readers attention. He will slowly walk alongside the wall, running his hand along side it over the peoples faces and this will be slowed down in editing for effect. In the background we will hear news reports of missing girls, including their names, and this will cut to a flashback of a cross being drawn over that girls picture then return to him stroking the wall. The sound of these reports will be slightly muffled and sound out of tune at the end to give it a retro feel and like it isn't working properly. Finally he will finish at the picture of a girl and smile (in a creepy way at it) and trace is finger across her cheek. Hearing a noise outside, he'll cross the room to the window, look outside and we will see the girl in the picture outside of his house. The camera will follow him through the house until he reaches the door and opens it for her. There will be a brief exchange of speech and the scene will finish.

We developed our plot by starting to write out each stage of the clip point by point. We also started to make a visual representation of our thriller by creating the start of a story board. This starts to indicate specific shots, positionings of characters and objects and sounds within each part and this allowed us to look into the finer details.