Monday, 8 October 2012

Opening Title Ideas:

Some rough ideas that may or may not be possible to film, but they are ideas that can be molded to work with our time and facilities.


“Awake”
Black screen. Dodgy lights flicker on and we see a wide shot of a makeshift surgical room. In the middle of the room is a table covered with a sheet. The camera follows a man around the room (we only see his hands). He touches all the surgical instruments as he passes them. His nails are ugly and has mud and blood under them. Eerie music plays, a chiming like noise – as if the surgical instruments are clanging. The hands uncover the table, and a body is lying there. A woman in just her underwear, she is very pale and looks dead. We see the dirty hands put gloves on. The camera pans up the body of the girl. Starting at her toes all the way up to her face. Close up on face, music silences. A moment of still silence. Girl’s eyes open and she gasps, as if for air. Her eyes are bloodshot. Title flashes across the screen, “Awake”. Black.


“Pop Goes The Weasel”
Wide shot of a hooded man processing photos in a dark room. We can only see him from behind. He is humming “pop goes the weasel” to himself quietly. Cut to a male student, (tall, lean, glasses but good looking), walking with photography gear to dark room. Cut back to man processing, he hangs up his photos on pegs. Cut back to student walking, another student calls ‘Hey Weasel!’ – Weasel responds by waving and smiling. Cut to hooded man, taking of his latex gloves and then exiting room. Weasel enters dark room and turns lights on. Photos of weasel dead and bloody. Close up on Weasel’s face, pure shock and fear. Close up on a post-it notes stuck to a photo, it reads ‘pop goes the weasel’

“A childhood obsession”
Child is drawing a picture. Cut to old man drawing. Child is cutting things up and we see he has a scar on his right hand. Cut to an old man cutting things up, he has the same scar. This is because the child is a flashback of the old man. Cut to child cutting bits of yellow string to stick on his picture as hair. Cut to close up of old man’s hands cutting up real blonde hair. Cut to see child's bright blue eyes, quick cut to see old man’s eyes. Cut to see child finishing his picture and sticking it on the wall. Zoom out to reveal a wall full of pictures drawn by little boy – all of the same blonde girl. Cut to old man sticking his picture on the wall. Zoom out to reveal a wall full of images of a dead blonde girl and newspaper clippings in which the girl is pictured. Cut to child smiling. Cut to old man, he looks serious. Then after a while a slowly makes an evil smile.

“Run for your life”
Male athlete is running on track, he has earphones in. He has clearly been running for a long time as he is quite breathless. POV shot from behind him. It seems that someone is running behind him. He turns there is no one there. He continues to run at a faster pace now. Cut to POV shot closer to runner. He turns again, no one there. He runs increasingly faster. POV shot almost right behind runner. Runner turns and trips. POV shot comes and stands above runner looking down. Runner screams. Black.

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