At Large

Finally a story

So the main idea is that this opening will be about a murder recorded by a killer. The structure will be simple with it trying to emulate reality as close as possible. I want to try my hardest to make the footage look like something real, which will help with the scare factor. Most of it will be shot in a first person POV through a phone camera to make it look as gritty as possible.

The opening will immediately start off with the phone recording that the killer took. The killer is in a very dim room. You cannot tell where he is from the darkness. The flash on the phone illuminates a hammer on the ground. The shot lingers on the hammer for a bit. They killer picks up the hammer slowly and grips it.

Cut to the killer walking outside in a neighborhood, its sunset at this point. As the killer is waking around you can tell that they are quickly looking all around them for something. A person walks by with their dog, the cam is angled down towards the killers feet. The person walking their dog says hi, the killer does not speak but he does wave to the person. 

Another cut. Its dark now, this is when we see the killer attempting at opening doors of a few houses and searching their windows for any way of access. This will be in a quick cut montage like sequence. This continues with a scene of the killer spotting someone through a window and the killer will just stare at them. The person leaves the killer's sight. the killer almost calmly walks to the nearest door finding it to be locked. The killer then slowly turns away and walks out of the persons backyard.

Cut again and this is when it all goes down. The killer walking in a neighborhood they check another door, this one is open. They walk into the house and close the door behind them. Not doing anything to hide their presence. They take out a hammer from their hoodie and they tightly grip it. A voice is heard saying "Who's there?". The camera turns quickly towards the noise and then the video ends.

We now see a shadowed figure watching a YouTube video about the case. The person going over the video says "What you just saw was events leading up to the moments of Arthur Lancaster death, as of now this case is still unsolved. Even 2 years after Arthur's death and the police are no closer to finding his killer.  The killer is considered at large and dangerous. If you have any information regarding this case please call this number, 954-853-5432. Here is a police sketch of  the man who is thought to be the killer, again if you think you have seen this man on the day of March 18th, 2018 please call the number. Thank you all for watching and have a nice day." Cut to title "At Large".

Credits for the film will be spread out throughout the opening scene when appropriate. I also plan on doing a visual storyboard for this layout to refine what I want to do. I might not make a script as the opening is not very dialogue heavy so it makes more sense for me to focus on making an effective and detailed storyboard.