Opening Scene Narration - Miss Miller

The description of the 2 minutes sequence starts with quickly opening with the main character, Brittany on a bridge wanting to commit suicide. This fraction of the scene is very quickly, used to give the audience an insight towards this characters life and her emotional well-being. The camera starts from a long shot which then leads to a close up to see the facial expression of anxiousness upon Brittany's face.

 The scene then quickly changes to the flashbacks, allowing the audience to create an emotional bond with this character as she is opening up and showing why she feels this way. Within these flashbacks, include 3 different scenarios, starting with being in the comfort in her own home and realising someone is watching her while she is watching the end of a happy film of 'Finding Nemo.' This scene quickly changes its mood as it goes from happy and safe to in danger and being frightened. This scene was used to represent why she feels constantly paranoid and why she has to always be cautious, and highlights the main point towards this narrative, making it effective. This scene includes low key lighting, with the main source of light coming from the film of the television, this will be used to show her emotions where she goes from a good mood from seeing the father and son finally re-unite in the film to then the panic in her facial expressions. The background sound will firstly show the sounds from the movie playing to then non-diegetic music to represent more of a panic and make the fraction of the scene where she runs into the kitchen to grab a knife more scary and realistic. The type of camera angles that will be used will be handheld, without the tripod to make the scene more of a realistic matter and Brittany is having to handle it by herself. This character will be wearing comfy clothes to allow the audience to know that she is feeling comfortable and secure.

The second flashback is when she is walking home from school, as she is a highly motivated student and wishes to get home as soon as possible to complete her nights homework schedule. She suddenly gets distracted as she feels like something is watching her as she hears a leaf crunch, assuming its from a heavy foot. This then highlights the innocence of this particular character and how she has been victimised form this antagonist, as he is slowly taking her away from her education and he is a constant thought in her mind, misleading her away towards what she believes is important. Within this scene, Brittany is wearing school clothes to make sure the audience is certain within her age range to represent vulnerability. The path she will be walking on will be clear to ensure that her paranoia increases after she hears the crunch of a twig.

The last flashback is when she thinks she has completely forgotten about the scenario of the stalker and believes it was just paranoia. She decides to see some friends for a night out and this scene shows  her way back form the event. She is walking home in an alley-way and her paranoia suddenly rushes back to her as she hears running steps not far behind her. The panic she then feels becomes very intense and makes the audience on edge towards whats going to happen next. Once this mysterious character has finally gone past her, she then finds a sense of relief when she realises that it was just a friendly runner passing by. This flashback, I believe is most effective as it gives a representation of the pain of paranoia she always going to have and gives an interpretation towards the audience that this could all be down to her anxiety troubles as there was really no antagonist as this character was left very mysterious with a hidden identity. In this scene, Brittany will be wearing very dressy clothes to show that she has been somewhere and to show that she is not letting this situation affect her in a constant matter. The runner will be wearing very neon coloured running clothes, this will then highlight the extreme paranoia she is experiencing. The sound during this scene will be very intense, to make it more over exaggerated when the mysterious character is getting closer and close towards the vulnerable character of Brittany. Once she has realised she was not in danger, there is a sudden silence in the scene only hearing her heavily breathing with a sense of relief.

After the flashbacks, the scene then changes to the present time of her on the bridge about to commit suicide. After a few moments, Carol is introduced to the opening sequence starting of as a completely random passer by. As Carol passes by, she realises something is not right with the teenager whom she has no recollection of knowing her at all. This then enphasises on the caring personality that Carol has. She quickly goes over to make sure if everything is alright and comfortably ensures Brittany that she can tell her anything that she feels un sure about. As they are talking, an instant bond forms between the two characters and become friends within a second. This scene will be situated next to the bridge, to allow the audience to know that she was about to kill herself, but an almost guardian angel rescued her. (this then fore shadows the tragedy of Carols death) The character of Carol will be wearing very neutral, light colours of knitwear to convey happiness and comfort. This is to also show that Carol is not asking Brittany if she is ok for gossip, but because she genuinely cares for this teenager who is knows nothing about. Some of the camera angles that will be used in this shot are panning when Carol is firstly introduced and two shot to show both of the characters in a certain frame. We will also use a handheld action behind leaves to interpret to the audience that they are being watched without knowing.

After their long chat, they decide to get out of the winter cold air and find a more comfortable place where they can get to know each other. After they walk a bit of the bridge, Carol quickly realises she dropped her bag from where she panickly went over to Brittany at the start to make sure everyone was alright. As Carol said she'd be back within two minutes, but Brittany feels as if she waited a lot longer. As she walks inform the curve, she notices Carol on the ground not making any movements. She quickly sprints over in a crying like state. She soon discovers she was stabbed. The last frame will be a close up of Brittany crying and will quickly end to make the audience want to watch the whole of the film to find out what happens next. This was purposely used at the end to show that even the nicest of people are not safe within Brittany's situation and his then fore shadows the danger Brittany will be out in after this scene, but will have to watch the full movie to find out. By making the audience want to watch what happens next, makes this and effective and tension rising opening sequence.