Initial idea for my short film

The idea for my short film is a film called Stalker. It would be a thriller with the themes of helplessness, crime and anger. My intended audience is male and females who are adults who are perhaps 16-40+ because it contains some violence and this range of audience are mature. It is also aimed at people who enjoy thrillers and/or crime thrillers. I will attempt to create a tense atmosphere with the use of lighting; most likely dark and the use of music; suspenseful music will be used to make the viewer think something is going to happen and to make the atmosphere tense.

It would start with a close up of someone’s feet walking down the pavement. The environment would be very dark. The feet would stop walking and the camera would pan up the persons back towards a window with the light on and an over the shoulder shot will take place. The camera will then be inside the house showing a girl who is texting. A mid shot would be used here. Within the mid shot you’ll also be able to see a figure standing outside. The girl will look out the window but not register that the figure is out there so when she looks at her phone again she’ll quickly look back out the window to see nothing out there. The girl is then shown leaving the house to go jogging; various shots of her journey are shown. She will enter a wooded area with the use of handheld camera and the music from her headphones can be heard. She’ll see a hooded figure walk/run past in the distance. The girl will take one headphone out and look forward, after seeing nothing she will go to place the headphone back and hear the crack of twigs, she will turn her head and too look around and when she turns back forward a figure is standing directly in front of her. The camera will be within the trees showing a wide shot of the struggle between the two people as the figure attempts to strangle her. The girl falls to the ground and the figure walks off into the woods.