Our thriller starts off with a time frame using home videos footage of a little girl. (iconography of the little girls doll has to be emphasised so the audience remember it and are able to identify it). We also see home video footage of an older girl who is getting into her new car; (iconography of the car has to also be empathised for the audiences understanding). In the background we can hear a news reporting saying that a young girl has died from being ran over by a car. As the news reporter says this the camera starts to zoom onto the little girls face into a close up; her face begins to look sad. The scene ends with a white flash and a car crash sound. This scene should make the audience understand the association between the 2 girls; which is that it was the older girl who ran over the little girl.
Next, the older girl is walking through a park at night (the lighting is low key) and she starts walking past a swing park. She is talking on the phone and as she is walking the camera starts to track her from behind. When the older girl finishes her phone conversation she drops her phone, goes to pick it up, slowly looks around and then gets back up. We then start to see a point of view shot from behind some bushes and we can hear light breathing (this lets the audience know that she is being watched). The camera then keeps switching from tracking the older girl, to the point of view of her being watched (it is the little girl who is dead that is watching her). The girl continues walking but then she starts hearing a child giggling and freezes. We see a close up of her facial expression and the camera then rotates around her head. She says "who's there?" in a panicked voice and then continues to walk in panic. She then steps on something; when she looks down to see what it is, it is the little girls doll. We see a 3 part zoom into a close up of the doll and the older girls start panicking even more and runs home.
When she gets home she runs into the bathroom and starts to wash her face with water in panic. She eventually starts to calm down and when she is fully calm she slowly looks up and in the mirror in front of her she sees the little girls ghost behind her and screams. The scene blacks out and straight cuts back in and the camera swiftly zooms in on the now possessed older girl and blacks out again. Finally it straight cuts back in and we see a pan of the little girl walking away from the side and the last thing we see is the doll which she is dragging along with with her as she walks of scene.
Your scene is well described and it clear that you have planned out your opening well with your group. Provide a bit more emphasis on the last scene in the bathroom as this will have the most impact on your audeince.
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