Opening scene narration - Miss Miller

The narrative brief for our thriller opening sequence is about a girl who is left walk him eon her won through a forest and gets kidnapped by a murderer. Here it is in depth -

The first image shown is an establishing shot of the forest, this immediately sets the low key lighting for the whole film. Next there is a group of friends walking through a forest on there way home from a night out. They are all alone, well they think they are. As they walk down the main pathway they are talking and laughing, everything is normal. Having the girls whole bodies in shot shows the mise-en-scene, their hair and make up is very natural and their costume is light colours to show innocence. Our main character Cathryn is placed in the middle of the friends to show she is important in the film and needs to be watched closely. There are lots of shadows and dark areas due to the low key lighting we used to create mystery. This scene has an extreme long shot to show the girls situation, which is them being set in an isolated setting inform the audience they are far from help. The editing for this scene is slow editing so suspense builds. When the girls come to the end of the path they all say goodbye and venture of. Cathryn, our victim goes down a different smaller path than her friends. For this scene it is still low-key lighting and most cinematography shots are used to show her vulnerability for example high angle and long shots, also starting here is non-diegetic sound of slow eerie music. As Cathryn walks down the path further away from her friends she beings to get slightly scared, so the slow editing stop and changes in to normal straight cuts, she continues walking whilst texting on her phone not looking at her surroundings. All of a sudden she hears a twig snap, this is off screen sound, she looks around to see a dark shadowed figure in the middle of the trees. Invisible editing is used here to emphasise her panic. As Cathryn turns her head the shot changes with her and moves with her face. This scene is when the timing of shot begins, the more panicked she gets the fast the editing becomes. When she sees the antagonists silhouette she gets scared and walks away quickly trying not to show that she is worried. The non-diegetic music start again and this time it pace is fast rapid. This shot shows the antagonist for the first time, he is wearing dark clothing to show death and evil, also he is higher up in the frame to show strength and power. As she is fast pace walking up the path the camera is hand held to empathise her movements and actions clearer. The antagonist follows her so she starts running away, she drops her phone, the antagonist is faster than her so soon catches up. This is when the iconography is used the antagonist has a knife in his hand and when he gets close enough to Cathryn he uses the handle of it to hit her on the head. The fast editing ends hear suddenly to emphasise her being hit. The scene goes quiet silence is used the foreshadow Cathryn unhopeful future. Cathryn is knocked out and falls the ground, a canted angle is used looking though a high angle down on her to show her instability and weakness over the antagonist. Last she gets dragged away semi conscious leaving the audience unaware of her outcome. A fade to black is used and then her phone which was dropped further on in the sequence is shown in a close up. The lighting here is extremely low key, a message appears on her phone and the screen again fades to black.