R + P Post 5: Our opening sequence idea

The basic story of our film is that 5 suspects are taken into a police interrogation room and interviewed/interrogated about the disappearance of Peter Smith, who we later find out is dead.

Basic Structure: 

• Close ups on characters fidgeting and important identifying features of the characters. 

Similar to the episode of Black Mirror that has close ups on the worried face of the girl. This helps to disorientate the audience and add a sense of ambiguity as it is right at the beginning.

• Then the credits

Super-imposed over the video, similarly to the opening of The Usual Suspects.

• The interrogation/introduction of the characters.

                 

• "Bombshell" of Peter Smith being dead dropped.

Script:

Narrative Conventions we plan to use: 

• Enigma codes (Fidgeting) - Reinforces the ambiguity of the 
• Binary Opposites (Detective - Teenagers) The age and ethnicity differences are used to create these binary opposities. 
• Shot-reverse-shot
• Chiaroscuro - We plan to use the lighting in the interrogation room to suggest how morally dubious the characters may be and to show that they all have a motive for the murder.