Original Idea before the questionnaire results

Our initial idea as a group was for a group of young film students to wander into an open stretch of forest and begin filming a scene for their studies. It will open with an establishing shot from the branch of a tree as the group walk under it. The story then progresses with them continuing to film. There will be more or less 5 students filming in these woods. After setting up their equipment in a short montage of them constructing tripods and checking cameras and other such equipment, we will see 4 of these group members head back to the car to go and pick up other equipment. From this point, the audience will understand that something will occur due to a low pitched quiet non diagetic soundtrack will be playing. The single character that is left will continue to set up his equipment alone and then as we start to pan around we start to see shadows in the forest. The character brushes them off as their eyes playing tricks on them and they will continue. After this, we will have the music become louder and higher in pitch, leading to the final shot which is short in length of the murderer behind our main character swinging some sort of blunt object at the characters head. As soon as it makes impact, it will cut to black. I think this will be effective, due to the fact that if the opening sequence starts on a cliffhanger, it will make the audience want to see the full film more and also it plays on Barthes theory as people will have to figure the fate out of the character from seeing that opening sequence. Our inspiration for this opening sequence was The Blair with project as it also sees young film makers going into the forest to film, but our outcome will be different.