Our Final Idea!!!

 Thought, after Thought

After being able to talk with Mrs. Stoklosa after many nights of brainstorming and butting heads with Jake about different ideas, we finally have a concrete idea. We agreed that we were leaning towards the genre of horror, and in our opening, it consists of paranoia. However, this is a film OPENING, not a full film, so we have chosen to cut/end the opening at a part during the scene that keeps the audience thinking, but they will never know. 

To open our scene, we are going to have a woman coming out of the forest, where it then cuts to a close-up of her phone as she receives a bunch of messages implying that she just got out of a hike within the forest and now has service. These messages will consist of her friends and family asking her if she is okay because there has been sight of a mysterious person or figure within the park she was hiking in. She responds, saying she is okay, but she is asking questions about who this person is or what this person is doing in the park. As she is waiting for a response, the camera will pan to a mysterious figure underneath the street light to create that backlit effect to make the figure's face unknown. The camera will continue panning between the woman and the figure to demonstrate that this is all happening within real time. As the woman calls out to the figure and gets no response, she gives up and believes it's just in her head when, all of a sudden, a park ranger approaches her. The park Ranger asked who she was calling out to, but when she went to tell him about the figure, the figure was gone. The park Ranger begins to tell her how it is late, and they're having sightings of a mysterious person within the park, and he believes she should head home. The woman agrees and begins to leave. However, my partner and I are stuck on where to end the opening. Option one is to end the opening right there after talking to the park Ranger and she was on her way out, or option two, where we show the figure still there, but it's a very quick shot of the figure and then cuts. I am leaning towards option two because I feel as if ending it with the short shot of the figure rebuild that builds suspense and paranoia. My partner is leaning towards option one so once we figure out which ending we choose to do, or if we come up with a completely different ending, it will be documented in one of my later blogs!!