Our initial idea revolved around two primary characters (a conventional protagonist
and antagonist) whom created a relationship through an obsessive stalker
mishap. Charlie (the antagonist) was initially Laura's (the protagonist)
stalker whom he wanted to kill. After filming and gaining peer assessment
feedback we soon realised that our original conventions and ideas of an opening
sequence was more of a short film with a beginning, middle and end. After much
consideration, we agreed it would be best to introduce more characters and more
of a storyline to ease the audience into the film which was to come. This would
in fact make them want to watch more of the film to figure out what has indeed
happened to Laura. By changing the storyline, Charlie is now more of a serial
stalker than just focusing on one person. This creates tension and also links
back to one of our influences of Sherlock Holmes having that one mystery
antagonist who has the power and mind set to kill many more than just one
person. This alone is an enigma code. The introduction of more characters makes
the film much more interesting and thrilling as more characters means that the
audience do not solely concentrate on two characters. Thus, putting the
audience on the edge as they do not know who is going to be
attacked/victimised next.
After great
reflection and consideration, we, as a group, decided that the best option was
to re-film our opening sequence, introducing two new characters. Sarah was
assigned the role of a college student, who turns out to be Charlie's next
victim, without the audience seeing the outcome. Whilst I (James), was given
the character of a Detective Inspector, who is also Sarah's brother. This
relationship, further on in the film would give the film more depth, thrill and
suspense as James (me) would naturally fear and defend his family (Sarah). We
feel that the addition of these two characters, along side new edits would
improve the quality of our opening sequence. Furthermore, it will relate
further to our target audience who are within the age bracket of college
students (16-25), therefore making the film seem more threatening as their age
group are the main victims.
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