INITIAL IDEAS – OPENING SEQUENCE

IDEA 1 – COMING OF AGE“Room For Improvement”

SETTING School Supermarket entrance Housing estate road

PLOTProtagonist leaves shop after buying

breakfast before school.

Puts purchases on wall and gets earphones out and puts them in, music begins to play

Walks round corner, camera cuts to him

further down the road, fade into bin by St. Catherine’s School

By walks up to school, sequence ends

SOUND Up beat song

Keeping with the action on screenNot too fast

Happy Matches the theme of the opening

sequence Non diegetic – implied to be diegetic Music overlays the sequence

LIGHTING High key lighting

Matches the theme/mood of the music Natural lighting Changes with the weather/ work with the

weather

EDITING Production company logo/intro Text appears on screen – fades in, over the

sequence, in corner of the screen Billing:

starsdirectorproducersprod. comp

Title appears last

CHARACTERS School boy/ teenager Anybody who walks past while filming

(uncredited extras)

IDEA 2 – HORROR“The Dusk Murder”

SETTING Field Woods Town centre back ally

SOUND Non diegetic music Sinister Mysterious

Adds tension Keeps audience on edge Fits the genre

LIGHTING Low key lighting

Keeps with genre Suggest mystery Adds suspense Fear of the unknown

EDITING Quick cuts

Matches action Speed Suggests closing danger Suggests character is panicking

CHARACTER Villain

Murders and buries the victim Victim bystander

PLOTPerson walking late at night

Kidnapped by a masked man

Later is killed

Buried in a field…

Fade to black as title appears on screen as music dies out