We were aiming to create mystery, fear, and spooky atmosphere to the audience by using a doll, a young girl, an old shady house, a playground and the swing. We chose these because this amplify the theme of the opening sequence: horror/thriller.
- a small girl in a park on a swing
- a woman watching her
- flashback of woman pushing her daughter on the swing
- woman looking at the photo of her daughter to indicate that her daughter has died)
- woman putting 'wanted poster' through the little girl's letter box
- little girl turns up at woman's house and we see that woman is going to kidnapp her.
After a while, we realised that it is not a good idea to develop further because it is too long to fit into the 2min opening sequence and it would be difficult to find a little girl (6-8 year old) for the part. It will be unrealistic to use 16 year old teenager to play for it.
We then brainstormed some ideas and Isabel came up with a total different idea and we got the inspiration from
Organ Theft. |
- "Aww, they took my freakin' kidney!"
Organ Theft, as the name would imply, is the practice of stealing people's organs via surgery, which can then be used for further purposes such as transplants or sold on the black market * One particularly common variant of this is trope is the "kidney theft
" Urban Legend, in which the victim is conned somehow and drugged into unconsciousness, and then wakes up kidney-less in a bathtub full of ice, often with a message attached telling them to go to a hospital.This trope was popularized by, and originated with, Larry Niven's Known Space stories, in which Organ Theft is called "organlegging", a portmanteau of "organ" and "bootlegging."
So this is the idea which we came up with:
- There is an extreme close-up of a girl's eyes. We see them open as she gasps.
- There is then a reverse zoom so we can see that she is in her underwear in a bath full of ice; she has a shocked/confused expression.
- There is then an eyeline match of her looking in the mirror. We see that there is something written on the mirror. The rest of the mirror goes out of focus and allows us to read what is written in red lipstick: 'call 0800......( a phone number)'
- The girl looks around and sees a phone lying next to her. She slowly types in the number and we see a close-up of the phone with the diegetic noises of her typing in the numbers.
- she puts the phone to her ear, but we don't hear what the person is saying on the other line. She has an extremely shocked expression and slowly lets go of the phone in fear.
- There is then a flashback. We see her dancing in the club holding a drink, she moves over to dance with a guy and when she's not looking there is a close up of him spiking her drink. We then see him dragging her into his car or something similar to this to show that she is the victim and he is the bad guy.
- It then cuts back to reality and she is in the bath. We are looking at her through the mirror. She looks down looks back up at herself in the mirror and screams.
- The screen goes black and the title comes up whilst she is still screaming.
We wanted to create something that is quite real as it has happen in the rural places before and kidneys are sold at hight cost. Through this idea, we are also conforming to the genre : thriller.
It was a brilliant idea and no one has ever done it before ; It is new and fresh. However, we faced some issues regarding the girl being shot with bra but resolved that we use a guy shirtless instead and he being conned by a sexy girl from a club. We might also need to hire a make-up artist to make the the stitches believable. In order to film in a club, it requires for our group to write a permission letter for approval both from the Principal and the owner of the club. After several discussions with our teacher and staffs from the media department, our idea was rejected.
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