Thriller Opening Sequence

Chapter Sixteen : 

"Nobody heard him, the dead man. But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought. 

And not but drowning. I was much to far out all my life, and not waving but drowning." 

Rain For Morgan - Underwater Footage.

I really love this underwater footage. This has inspired my opening sequence. I plan to have different shot angles though and create several differences.







Here is the initial idea for my Thriller opening scene.

The first shot will be a crosscut between a woman drowning and the contrast of two girls and two boys in a car going on a road trip. The woman will be filmed underwater floating peacefully. The sequence will be a mixture of mid shots and close ups. It will be at an eye line height. There will be non diegetic classical music and no diegetic sound. This will then cut to a shot of the four teens, they will be driving and the shot will be through the windscreen of either the driver, passenger of front windscreen. The foursome will be listening to diegetic dance music and raving in the car. The shot then moves onto Dan who is smoking a split out of the car window. The scene then cuts back to the woman drowning and we see her hair and dress getting wrapped around her body and face. There is a close up of her face from a direct over head angle. As the shot cuts to a wide shot of the teenagers truck we zoom in on a car following them. It is an Audi. The truck is seen turning off and pulling into a open space near a lake and the shot cuts to the car pulling in towards the camera. The music is turned off and the four teenagers grab their bags out of the back of the truck this is a wide shot showing the kids with their bags and tents. A few lines of dialogue are exchanged and they kids go to put up two tents. We cut to a shot of the tents in place and it is now early evening. The next shot is in the tent with both the couples, as they unpack the girls notice their underwear is missing. We see the girls empty their bags. Josh offers to take Maddie to get some more clothes from home and we see them walking towards the car and the headlights light up. During this time Jasmine and Dan decide to go swimming in the lake we film them from a wide shot and see the couple splash into the lake. It cuts back to Evangeline drowning and the classical music has stopped and we hear the diegetic splashing from underwater, a voice over is played over this and it is Evangeline talking about her death. As if she is watching herself. She continues to speak as we cut back to the couple in the water. In sync both the couple stop moving and Evangeline finishes her speech. We see an over the body shot from Evangeline and we see Jasmine open her eyes underwater to see Evangeline's corpse. She screams and the noise is heard through the water and bubbles escape to fill the shot. Fade to black.

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