Change of plan

Our group have decided to change the idea of our opening sequence as we felt the kidnapping idea would go no where and we wasn't as interested in it as we'd hoped.

Our new idea will be based in a house, as it is easier to control lighting and background noise. This would make it better to create the atmosphere we'd like in our opening sequence. It's also good to do it in a house as it fits with the storyline.

The plot to the opening is that a masked woman breaks into a house through the downstairs window. She takes picks up valuable items such as jewellery and mobile devices then makes her way to the stairs. She happens to stand on a creaky floorboard which causes another woman to open her eyes after having a nap and notices her phone or something valuable has disappeared. She cautiously moves around to see what's going on, without making too much noise as she knows she could be in danger. The burglar goes into the bedroom and we see the woman also go in to the bedroom which becomes quite tense as she is in danger by being near the burglar. The camera pans round and we see that there is nothing in the bedroom so the tension begins to die down. The woman then moves and we see a bit of the burglar behind her, our aim is to make the audience jump from this. The burglar continues taking money from draws and goes out onto the landing. The other woman is in the next room, we can see she is there but the burglar is unaware. She slips into a closet and holds it tightly shut. The burglar creeps slowly to the closet and we hear the victim breathing heavily and her heart pounding. The burglar slowly opens the door handle and the door flies open. The screen then cuts to black and the title appears.

We had thought about including wanted posters in the opening scene as part of the mise-en-scene to add more backstory to it, as the viewer will be able to tell that the character is a master thief and one not to be reckoned with.

The genre of the film will remain the same despite the change of plan. The characters will have the same sort of roles as Laura will still be the villain and I will still play the victim.

The rest of the film could go on to be a documentary about the burglars life and how she came to be a burglar. A bit like Banksy's Exit through the gift shop film which describes the life of Banksy and Thierry Guetta (Mr Brainwash).

This clip from This Means War is a good example of how we could use camera angles and action to make it flow effectively and create the tension. The only difference being that the music and lighting will be different to make it less comedic.