Our pitch for our opening sequence for our psychological thriller

1. Paramnesia
Ayesha Pervaiz
Faz Bhatti
Nicola Tarrant
Lizzie Tovey
L-MDH-5E

2. TheOverview
 Sub-genre: PsychologicalThriller
 A young girl experiences a murder of a close family member and
its affecting every aspect of her life. Once she starts seeing things
and having flashbacks back to the horrifying night, everything
changes.Aleena becomes obsessed with trying to find the killer;
from recording news bulletins to keeping a scrapbook full of
newspaper clippings about them. She wants revenge, but
something is trying to stop her.
 The three main themes featuring in our film opening are:
 Perception
 Mind
 Death

3. Interior
 Castlefield house – Bedroom, Entrance,
Kitchen
Exterior
 Outside of the house
 At the door of the house.
Permissions
All of our planned locations have been
authourised.
Locations

4. Structure
• We planned out the structure of our opening scene using a
storyboard
• Beginning , Middle , End
Beginning:
• Shots outside the house , inside the house.
• Causes suspense on what is going to happen.
• Highlights the atmosphere
Middle:
• Shots in the house , different angles and shots of Aleena
• Reveal to the audience her being traumatized (with the props)
• Flash backs
End:
• Hallucinates the killer when its actually her friend Ella (Nicola)
Audience would think
• Why she is traumatized?
• What caused her hallucinating?
• Why are there lots of newspapers everywhere?

5. Representation:
Character
Character 1:
 Aleena (Ayesha) 18 year old girl suffering with a mental illness and
is traumatized due to a past experience which has made her the
way she is now. Protagonist of the film.
Character 2:
 Villain (Faz) – Male character in the film who is inAleena's flash
backs. He commits the murder ofAleena's sister.
Character 3:
 Ella (Nicola) Friend who is concerned about Aleena. She discovers
a something that gives her an idea about why she is traumatized.

6. How?
Mise enScene
Settings: Place
• Castlefield house- most will be filmed inside the house
• A Couple shots outside in the beginning of the opening scene to
display to the audience where it is set and the atmosphere of the
scene = quiet, lonely etc...
Settings:Time
• Late afternoon – a girl on her own , late afternoon illustrating
alienation from the world and the people around her.

7. Props:
 Throughout the scene we will use a variety of props to make it
look as realistic as possible.
 Most props will have a meaning behind it such as:
 Empty boxes of medicine
 Newspapers
 Glass
 Clothes(scattered everywhere on the floor)
 Knife
 and more...

8. Lighting:
 Low key lighting illustrating atmosphere and emotion throughout
the character.
 Reveals to the audience that throughout the scene it will be
negative

9. How ?
Camerawork
We already have ideas for our camera angles in which we are going to use. Every cut is going
to have a different camera angle. Firstly we are going to use a mid-shot angle of a hooded figure
but this is also a pov shot of what Ayesha (our main character) sees as she opens the door.Then
we have a over the shoulder shot to show where abouts our character is positioned next to what
she sees. Also we will use a close up of our villains face in a hooded figure. Also in this shot we
have our character looking up to the camera to indicate a sense of creepiness about him to make
him look intimidating and scary to the audience.After this we will use another close up of
ayesha's face to capture the fear of how she doesn't want to look at what's infront of her.Her
hands covering her face being a major contributer to show her fear as she's physically not letting
herself look at it and is trying to hide from it.The other shots repeat a similar format as included
are some more midshots and over the shoulder shots as well as close ups of a poster on a wall and
a pov shot at the end of this scene as one of one of the character's reading the newspaper entitled
'Murder'.These different shots are used for different effects for the audience and to create
suspension in different ways as possible, A pov shot is effective for example as it makes the
audience feel as if their there witnessing the events themselves as if they are there.This
grips them to the edge of their seat as to what is to happen since their witnessing it through their
eyes, causing them to fear for example what the character is fearing too as they have been put in
their position.
Close ups are going to be a major contributor to our opening so we can capture the horror on our
character's face when she is seeing all these flashbacks. We wanted to use flashbacks in our
opening too as we thought it would be an effective way of creating a mash together of all our
characters thought at once, showing how her mind isn't exactly stable and how a lot of things are
troubling her. It's an effective way of showing memories and how people don't forget things but
remember bits that are significant and those are the bits that stand out in our flashback montage
we are planning. I.e Faz' Hand covered in blood being a key shot, as the redness of the blood will
stand out and be very bold for the audience to see and for our character to remember.

10. Sound
Also we have started thinking about sound too and how we will
need to use diegetic sound effects of knocking on the door for
example but also eerie non diegetic music added to create a tense
and eerie mood.We will change the non-diegetic music depending
on what will be going on in the scene.We all thought that if i played
the piano this would be effective to add into our piece and we are
going to demonstrate with different sounds to see which one fits
the best. But for flashbacks sequences we are going to use a series
of pre-recorded sounds of screams and diegetic clashes and eerie
noises to build up suspension.