Opening Sceneration - Miss Miller

The first four scenes are scenes that are initialising the setting, making the audience aware of where the opening is set, and they get an idea of what is happening, the victim is seen walking through some garages, and entering an alleyway. For those shots we are going to use panning and mid shots as these are simply shots to initiate the setting, as well as keeping the sound the same, as no sound effects are used before the killer is seen.

As she exits the alleyway the victim is seen in a mid shot, as she leaves the alleyway to the right, the killer is suddenly seen behind her without her awareness, holding a hammer, this is the iconography in the scene. This is when the sound track first kicks in, this begins to build up the suspense, and also represents that something is present in the scene that wasn't there before.

The camera angle then switches to a POV/handheld camera angle, from the killer's perspective looking at the victim, as she walks around the corner and then switches into the victim's perspective, she then looks around in suspicion, thinking that someone is following her. During this the sound track is slowly going to be building up, this builds up the suspense in the scene.

It then shows the victim walking away from turning around, and then going onto enter the gate which leads into the forest, using this setting because anyone can just walk into the forest, meaning that the audience can relate with the scenario. As she walks down the path it switches into the perspective of the victim, she hears something hit the gate that she has walked through, and she sees the killer behind her with the hammer in his hand, she then runs. It then shows a mid shot of her running off the path into the forest, the killer is then seen following behind her but walking, showing the confidence that he is going to catch her, whereas the victim is running for her life.

The camera angle then switches to one in the forest, where the victim is seen running through the forest towards the camera, followed by the killer who is again walking, this also that he is in control of the scene. Switching to another POV angle, which shows the victim's perspective of running through the forest and looking back at the killer, this builds up the suspense as you think that she is going to get caught however you want her to get away as you sympathise for the victim.

The victim is then seen to fall over and then crawl and hide at the bottom of a tree, showing a high angle shot which looks down the on the killer, this shows that the victim is inferior in the opening scene and could then go onto infer that she is going to get killed, this builds up the suspense in the scene. The killer is then seen walking away from the forest which makes it look like he's lost her, this is when the sound track pauses. The victim's phone then goes off, as she is trying to turn it off she is dragged away.

One element that will really make our thriller better is by using the hammer instead of a knife as the killer's weapon, this reveals more about killer than what a knife would, the hammer would show a more brutal side of the killer, whereas a knife is just a stereotypical weapon, revealing more to the audience.

Another element that makes our thriller good is by using a POV angles, this really gets the audience involved in the scene as they can see through the perspective of the killer and the victim, this gets the audience really involved in the film, therefore elements like suspense will have a greater effect on the audience.