Noami Lowe (12), was murdered by Trent Haywood (22) and her brother (Elijah) set out to kill him in revenge. Elijah's gruesome killing leaves Trent so disfigured that he is unrecognisable. As there is no evidence, Elijah is not charged and let go. The film's plot depicts the investigation needed to find who the killer actually is. Detective Gareth Cox leads the investigation but he seems to miss all the major events.
In the two minute sequence, we will show the interrogation of Elijah and focus mainly on lighting and setting. Elijah will state where he was at certain times, then show a flashback of him disposing the body.
Detective: Gareth Cox
Rapist: Trent Haywood
Killer: Elijah Lowe
Child: Naomi Lowe (Not being shown in the opening, only mentioned)
- We are currently in talks about we want to act in our opening sequence - Holly has suggested her dad to be involved as his occupation is within the police force. We could use a voice-over/over casting shadows if he isn't comfortable with showing his face.
- Naomi won't be shown in the opening sequence, but it's important to include her name for finer details. If we were to make a full-length feature film, we could possibly use flashbacks of her.
- For Elijah, we need to consider the actor's age - as all of us are in college, we all have fairly young faces. Meg has older friends, so we can take this into consideration.
HAIR & MAKEUP
Meg has shared her interest in special effects make-up, and would like to lead in this role. This will include dried blood, and white-washing dead people's faces. Meg would like to experiment with liquid latex to create acid burns/disfigurements. We to ensure we don't make the disfigurements too gory, otherwise that will make our opening sequence a horror.
LIGHTING & COLOURWe are going to use the same lighting and colour of most thriller films - darker, and desaturated colour. We also want to cast quite harsh shadows/use gobos. These are all just brainstorming ideas at the moment, and later posts will show our experiments.
PROPS
We will not require many props in the sequence, We will need a folder to act as if it is a file of the murder, in order for the detective to ask questions. Another prop we will need will be a 'shard of glass' which will be used as the murder weapon.
LIGHTING AND COLOUR
In order to create the mood of tension we will be using low unsaturated dark lighting with bright lights on faces to emphasise expression, we will be using desaturated dull colouring to create the atmosphere and leave the audience asking questions.
You refer to trent being disfigured. perhaps for real effect, we (the audience) only see this at the end of the sequence - it would have far more impact that way. You could achieve that through clever Shot . reverse shot work and low key lighting, casting a shadow o=ver the one side of his face (where the disfigurement is).
ReplyDeleteGood, i like the idea of a parallel story and this does give you the opportunity to explore a type of parallel editing - it is because it is taking place in his head simultaneously and the two do not meet.