The Party is Rolling

The ideas are FLOWING. My partner and I are finally thinking about specific plots for our opening. As of now, our setting will be Markham Park, which is a local park with lakes and a small forest area. We feel that this will give that creepy/suspenseful right now. We plan to start the shot with a long establishing shot of the park, to then cut to a POV shot from the killer, allowing the viewer only to see through the holes of his mask. This was used in Halloween during the opening scene, we thought this was interesting and also made it easier to show the murder. Since we are not exactly professionals, the visual limitations of the masks will make it much simpler to show murder because one does not see the full action, which means we do not need to spend a lot of time making the murder as convincing, like if we were to show the full action. The scene will be alternating from the victims (a young couple) throughout the process of the murder, and showing their oblivious friends enjoying their camping trip, assuming that the young couple is simply out getting frisky. As this pattern of the alteration of the murder scene and the campsite continues to progress, the last scene will be the killer approaching the campsite with his bloody weapon. The final shot will be a close up of one of the friends screaming as the title of the film is revealed. We've decided not to include credits during the opening because we feel like it will take away from the suspense, and make it less realistic to the viewers by making it less evident that this is a highly manipulated piece of work.

The specific shots that one will see while the witnessing the "process of murder" will be 1) the two victims being taken by the killer to a secluded area as they struggle to escape 2) images of the two victims being shoved on the ground as the killer begins to prepare conditions to kill them off, we also see one of the victims try to crawl away, but the killer quickly reacts and drags them back as he kicks her on the ground 3) the two victims tied naked onto a tree (the nudity will be inferred with many different shots of their body) and finally 4) the killer kills the two victims and leaves his signature mark branded onto them. As of now, the killers brand is an inverted cross, that is commonly related to Satan.

"Halloween." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.