Opening Scene Narration - Miss Miller

Our sequence starts with two young girls, Holly and Gemma are on their way to a party. Holly is driving down a dark deserted road when her car breaks down, the two girls pull over and end up swerving into the forest. Gemma and Holly start to panic when they relise their phones have no signal, Gemma then gets out the car to try and find reception on her phone, from where the antagonist comes up from behind her with a hidden identity, stabbing her to death. Holly sees the happen and doesn't know what to do as the car door won't open, she then starts to panic. As Holly looks up she relises that the antagonist has gone. This is when the sequence ends, this way we end it on a cliff hanger as we wonder if Holly makes it out alive or not.

The opening sequence will contain all four micro elements which are cinematography, sound, editing and miss-en-scene. One of the cinematography camera shots used is the POV shot. This is used as the antagonist is walking towards the vicim in the forest, this is to build tension as we try to put the audience in the antagonist shoes. This helps to build a relationship with the victims as we sympathise for them. Another one we used is a reaction shot, this is as Gemma is being stabbed and Holly is watching in shock, this is to make the audience sympathise for the victim as she's a vulnerable young female. The sound we decided to use was upbeat music at the beginning, when the victims are listening to the radio in the car, as the break down the music starts to turn eerie giving the audience a sense that something bad is about to happen. As Gemma gets out of the car to retrieve phone signal, she starts to here noises such as dogs barking and owls howling as its dark she can hardly see anything, making her vulnerable and scared. You also here diegetic sound of the victim screaming for help as her friend is being stabbed to death. The setting for the miss-en-scene is in the forest, with low key lighting as it becomes dark very quickly. The two victims are dressed in party clothes with over the top makeup as they were on there way to party as it happened. All that is seen from the antagonist is the back off him as he walks away from the murder scene, his identity is hidden throughout to create suspense and make the audience wonder who and what the antagonist looks like. The facial expressions used come from the victim's friends as she starts to panic as Gemma is nowhere to be scene. We have also included editing shots such as a Jump cut, this is at the beginning of the sequence from where it jumps from subtitles to the antagonist standing still watching Gemma. By the end of the sequence, the camera shot then fades out telling the audience that it has finished, ending on a cliffhanger.