Project idea

     For this project, I am working in a group with my two friends Victoria and Juan. We began with an open mind to all genres but ultimately, we narrowed down the possibilities to thriller, horror, and drama. We tried brainstorming for a while and our initial idea was some sort of loop however during the end of our class one day Vicky came up with a rough idea. We continued expanding on its next class and we have been consistently adding on and revising parts of it to come up with our current plan.

    It will be an opening of the horror genre. The opening will begin with an overhead shot of a record player, there will be foley high heel footsteps and a woman will put a record in the player and begin playing the song. The music is still undecided, but we would like it to seem pretty regular/romantic at first. The woman will then be featured setting a fancy dining table/preparing the dinner. During this sequence her face will not be shown, opening credits will be shown by having her move a cutting board and the credits appearing under it and similar ways. As she is doing this there will be flashbacks to gruesome scenes that distort the music. After these events, she will get a message saying something like "I'm here" and other similar messages from males will be shown. Then the title "Manslaughter" will appear across the woman's smirking face, afterwards the screen will cut to black as the doorbell rings. The flashbacks are to the serial killer's previous murders, and we would like to include some kind of trophy or clue as to her motive that would be recalled in the movie later. 

    The character is a serial killer named Elena; she kills her victims (men) at dinner, but we haven't yet thought of an interesting motive. She will be in her 20's, formal (probably black) dress and heels. We want to have lots of low-key lighting and a color scheme of mostly blacks, reds, and silver. She should appear kind of sweet which hides her twisted nature. We also want to include slow-dragging scenes to really build anxiety and tension to achieve that classic horror feeling. 

Overall, I think our idea is very solid and thought out, my group has been very considerate and compromisable so we didn't have much trouble coming up with this idea together. We will continue to add more ideas including the motive into the film, but I think our idea is very interesting and will be very successful in appearing like a legitimate horror film opening.