We started discussing our synopsis, we decided we are going to make a film noir rather than a neo noir. We also decided to make our film quite freaky and disturbing. Our ideas have stemmed from our (disturbed) imagination. The film will open with a suicide (a girl hung from a tree), The shadow of someone's shoulder will be seen in the corner of the camera as they're looking out of the window, we would like to include a rocking chair rocking back and forth and creaking. The window will preferably be looking at the woods. The camera will focus on the tree, and it will zoom in, the audience will then see the shape of someone hanging from the tree. The girl will be swinging back and forth and then the camera will zoom into her eyes, the camera will then go black and the title will come up. The camera will then come back onto her eyes when she's alive. It'll then zoom out and show her previously, when she was alive. The rest of the film will be about retelling of her life and how she is being stalked by a man who sits in a rocking chair and watches her.
The conventions we're going to meet is that it will be black and white. We're going to break the conventions of having a femme fatale and anti-hero. In the OTS, the only character which will be seen is the dead girl and the character's shoulders in the window.
- Mid-shot of rocking chair
- Pans across to show window, person moves in front of the camera and shows their left shoulder only
- Focus on what they are looking at - out the window, follows gaze and zooms through the window pane and out onto the green where the person is looking
- Zooms onto the tree where the person is staring, pans round to show the front of the tree properly and there is a dead body hanging from it
- Zooms right into the focus on her closed eyes
- Screen goes black, title appears
- Title fades and focuses once again on girl's eyes
- Eyes open, camera zooms out to focus on girl and her whole body - she is alive, everything is brighter, and she is alive once again - start the story of her life
- Screen goes black and the retelling of the story would begin here
