Initial Idea presentation

Inspirational video, A beautiful Mind 

In class we had to present our initial idea for the opening sequence of a thriller and the story line. This is part of our course work project.

My initial idea was about Edmund Price a young, pretty man with schizophrenia problems. Edmund in the beginning of the movie is around 27, he is quite and shy, we don’t know what happen to his biological parents but he is not really close to his adoptive parents so he left to live by himself as soon as possible, he works in a small printing company not too far from where he lives and he met in a put Caroline a sweet confident students at university so much younger than him, they felt in love and decided to get married.

Five years later things started to change Edmund lost his job and lost completely contacts with his adoptive parents and also divorced with Caroline as she cheated on him.

Edmund was really stressed about his life and it seemed that nothing was going in the right way. Edmund was suffering, confusion was invading his mind as he couldn’t understand why all this was happening and what was he doing wrongly.

At age of 61 Edmund Price is in one of the biggest prisons of the world as considered a murder of many victims. He killed his biological parents as well as he adoptive one. He set fire to a printing company killing 50 employees and he murdered a young student called Caroline that used to work in a pub part time, he also killed many other victims, some still need to be found.

The opening sequence of this movie is set in the middle of the woods, there are going to be lots of different shots to show variety as well as the woods in different perspective. Silence would be the main diegetic sound as it will increase the intensity and silence is usually left out as a sound effect as not consider so important, but this is absolutely wrong as it is the most powerful sound you could ever have in a movie.

After the shots to set the scene there would be a wide shot showing a figure in the wood. Getting closer we can see that the figure is man standing by himself holding a picture and a neck less of a girls. Than the character starts a monologue and this would help the audience to understand something more of this character and have a general idea of what would happen next, however that is done with a purpose as the audience by the end of the all movie is something completely different you would expect, but it is done as well to make the audience thinking about it and having this at the back of their mind for the rest of the movie.

Then while the monologue gets more interesting a non-diegetic sound would start, soundtrack, to increase the intensity of the sequence. Then with a close up or a wide shot you can see a shape leaning on the floor just behind the main character. Then we have a close up and you cannot really understand what it is but can easily guess that is a dead body.

He then drops the photograph and the neck less on the body and burns them. At this stage the sound track get louder and louder and the sequence ends it with the character walking away or staring at the fire.

Overall the feedbacks I received from my class mates where positive and they liked my idea as it seems complicated but simple to do and you have the opportunity to play around with it lots and it is easily adaptive to create something really good out of it.

The only drawbacks of my opening sequence are that it is in the woods and it is something we keep seeing in Hurtwood house media as we surrounded by woods and the use of the fire at the end is too predictable and could cause problems to shoot as they would not allow use of fire for a school project for health and safety issues.