Opening Sceneration- Miss Miller

Our open narrative begins with a couple sitting in a waiting room at a train station. The couple are waiting for their train and with time the train approaches the platform and we watch the two characters leave the waiting room and get onto the train. On the train the couple are talking casually and eventually the male character announces he needs to get off at the next stop and leaves his young, blonde girlfriend alone to continue her journey. The girl looks in front of her lost in her own thoughts and sees an image of a masked man in the reflection in front of her. She jumps up and has a reaction that is shocked but, when she looks back she sees nothing is there. The girl passes it off as she may have been seeing things and intends to continue her journey home.

As the journey lengthens the young girl receives a phone call from an unknown number, we hear her saying 'hello?' multiple times and due to know answer; she hangs up the phone. The girl looks down the carriage and the masked villain waiting at the end. She runs to the doors to try and get off the train but, the open button of the door fails to allow her access to the platform meaning she is stuck with the unknown character on the train. She screams and runs to the following door and repeats the action and is still not granted access from the masked man who continues to just stand still where he is. 

As the man slowly approaches we hear sharp, high pitched screams from the young girl. As he gets closer, she is stuck and has no where to turn. She is shocked as the villain appears to have disappeared. The masked villain however then comes up from behind the girl and pulls her to the floor where she is knocked out. 

The girl wakes up and is sitting back where she was at the beginning of the sequence and is panting and panicking at the confusion of what has just happened. She looks forward and sees the mask lying on the seat opposite her, suggesting that the killer is going to strike again.

Within our thriller we have used many elements that are conventional to the thriller genre. For example: we have a blonde, female victim which is stereotypical to the genre in regards of the audience inferring naivety and vulnerability and loud noises such as screams, which cause a shock to the audience. The unexpected quick snaps of the mask is conventional to a thriller storyline and the idea of the mask being zoomed in on at the end on the seat allows our audience to predict and want to discover what will happen next. We have used mise-en-scene that is also relevant to the thriller genre such as a stereotypical girly costume for the victim and the iconography of the mask for the killer. Alongside this, the use of cinematography will allow our scenes to flow more freely and to link together our scenes. Overall, our opening scene has been created and moulded to fit the thriller genre.