Treatment of ideas for an Opening Sequence of a Thriller

I have had many ideas with my group about our Opening sequence.

Here is a brief outline of our ideas so far...

Our opening sequence is about two girls walking down a path, talking to each other. One of the girls looks at their watch and decides that she needs to go. Therefore she walks down another path to go home and the other girl carries on walking down the path. The path is going to be dark, with trees either side. We have shots of her walking down the path, she walks around a bend in the path and goes out of sight. Then we have a shot where we see her back and we see a man, hiding in the trees looking at her. After the build up of these scenes we will cut to a black and blank screen, and we will have a sound effect of someone screaming( in this case the girl who was walking down the path). After this we will have the title come up on the screen.

During our opening sequence we will use diegetic sound mostly, but we will use some non-diegetic sound to create tension. We will use many different camera shots, for example we will use over the shoulder shots, close up, mid and long shots. We will also use point of view shots. For the first part of the opening sequence we will use a tracking shot to follow the girls talking.

For the pint of view shots the camera will be hand held, instead of being on a tri-pod. this should give the audience a sense of realism.

For one of the shots we will tilt the camera, to show that the place that she is walking is a bit odd and spooky. Also it gives the audience a sense of confusion.

We shall be using low-key lighting. To create a dim and dark effect. To give a sense of urgency by the girls getting home in the light.

We will use transitions of fades, dissolves and Jump cuts to make some of the opening sequence keep the audience on the edge of their seat.