Opening sequence plot

  

 

  The opening sequence of our film shows an establishing shot of pans of park, we can see group of teenagers walking towards the park grounds. Then a horizontal tracking of them entering the park but the older version of 'Josh' is still standing outside the park. Then shot reverse shots are used between the group of friends and 'Josh'. They say to him “where’s Josh going”

  There is then a medium close up of his face showing a shocked and fearful expression and 'Josh' replies “I’m not coming in guys” 

   It then cuts to a flash back night time long shot of an average 17 year old girl called 'Lucy' who is being dragged away by an unidentified figure. 

(It then cuts back to a two shot of Josh and his group of friends to show the distance between them)

(Shot revers shots are used while the conversations between the group and josh continue as they interrogate him)

“Why”

“Bad things have happened in my child hood”

   The film then cuts rapidly to a black flash of twilight pans of a park where a close up shot is then shown of a 10 year old boy and his sister. A shot is show of other families leaving the park, the older brother then talks about an urban legend of 'The Child Collector' who was brutally murdered at Littlefield playground where they are now. He continues to say that if they don’t leave the park by nightfall then the child collector will appear and collect any wondering children and kill any adults with them.

   The dialogue then fades out where a voiceover saying “little did they know I was already there watching them”. The dialogue then fades in to 'Josh' the younger brother saying he rejects this story and thinks his brother has made this plea to get him to leave.  Josh then runs off to carry on playing. 'Lucy' looks frustrated and shots “fine let 'The Child Collector' get you” there is then a voice over of 'The Child Collector' saying “I will”

   It then a cut to a shot of someone’s back who is swinging on the swing, 'Josh' reaches up to tap him on the shoulder and says “can I have a go on the swing” then 'The Child Collector' lifts his head towards the front wide shot of the camera that shows 'Josh' behind the figure on the swing. The figure turns and we see joshes shocked expression and he runs off.

   It then cuts to a shot of 'Lucy' who has got off the seesaw and is walking towards the park exit but we zoom in on her shocked expression as she hears her brother scream. It is then a wide shot to show 'Lucy' running towards the location where she heard the scream which is the swings. Its cuts to a hand held shot by 'Lucy' where you can see the ground as she is running and it’s accompanied by her heavy breathing. 'Lucy' runs to the scream expecting to see Josh but sees a man who is 'The Child Collector' on the swings looking down at the floor with his hood up. There is a slow zoom in and becomes rapid when the male looks to reveal he is wearing a baby mask. 'Lucy' screams and then turns to run however 'The Child Collector' stands up and grabs 'Lucy' by the neck and pulls him to the ground before saying “I told you so”. There is then a close up that moves into an extreme close up to show 'The Child Collector' cutting 'Lucy' and removes his hand away and reveals that she is bleeding the shot is then zoomed out as 'THE Child Collector' drags 'Lucy' away by her shoulders while the camera pans in the opposite direction of where he is dragging her.

   Then a shot is shown of 'The Child Collector' making his way over to the slide he then goes down the slide laughing creepily. A shot is shown which reveals Josh is hiding within shrubbery with a shocked face, with this an over the shoulder shot is revealed of 'The Child Collector' which then zooms in to show Josh runs away and 'The Child Collector' turns his head.

Fade out back to a close up of the older 'Josh's' face and a voice over of the child collector saying “Time for round two Josh”.

 

 

The plot made helped our group with setting the themes and ideas we had from the mind mapping session into stone and decide the order in which the scenes flow. It also would act as a plan our group could go from as it helped us go onto produce a script as we knew what scenes needed dialogue and what the dialogue should consist of. It also allowed us to create a storyboard as creating the plot made the order of events much clear. It enabled us to go into further detail of dialogue for the script and also decide what camera shots we were going to use for each scene.