Solid Storyline

    Well today has been a good day because Stephanie and I finally decided on a storyline and I got some tips from my teacher. After various suggestions and changes, we've settled on our final story. It is still a similar story to the notes I posted yesterday, but we're going to tell it through a different approach, a simpler approach. There are some details we need to work out and of course there's still storyboarding, but we're getting there!

Storyline Notes:

• We were thinking that the film opening should start out happy, and normal
• The main character would be shown driving home, jamming to her music.
• High key lighting
• Energetic music
• The credits could be shown, they could start out in this scene, i'm not too sure where we would put them, but they would be somewhere were it wouldn't be to intrusive.
• Once the character gets out of her car the music could stop, since it was a diegetic sound coming from her car. (or it could transition)
• There would be a change in tone once the character enters her house
• She would sense that something's not right
• She would then be shown going around the house, curiously, making sure everything is ok
• She would see various items out of place and notice that something is wrong
• Back door could be open
• Broken items
• Low-key lighting
• Suspenseful music to further imply that something has happened/ is going to happen
• Maybe kitchen droplets are sounding
• Could have foley sound of the protagonist's heartbeat
• There would be different shots of the house possibly from the character's POV
• While different parts of the house are being shown there would still be credits (not intrusive, small somewhere in the shot)
• When she gets to the kitchen she sees a woman lying on the floor, and realizes its her mother and quickly goes to help her.
• As she runs towards her mother, there could be a sound and a slight view of a stranger quickly leaving the house, indicating possible murder.
• There could be a sound specific to the murderer or when something bad is about to happen/ has happened (sound motif?)
• The mother would have bruises in her face and a stab wound.
• Once she realizes that her mother is dead the camera would show the protagonist's face to show her emotions
• There could be a zoom into the character's face
• The protagonist would be expressing surprise, concern, confusion and sadness.

    Once you're done reading through our ideas, you might notice that the title wasn't included anywhere in there. I know the title is a very important aspect in a film opening and I promise that we will have one... but my partner and I aren't too sure about where and when in the film we should put it (or what it should be). We have some ideas but I want to see what else we can come up with. Since research has yet to deceive me, i'm going to look for information on title sequences and fill you guys in tomorrow. See you then!