Our Pitch

During last nights planning session, we developed and decided on our initial idea. We are unsure on various aspects of the title sequence, but we have the gist. We're hoping to start at a bar or party. This is dependent on where we can film and when. The initial idea for the name comes from a focus point of the sequence, which is a cocktail. We researched different cocktail names and came across 'Daiquiri' which is a white cocktail. The fact that it was white was significant because it will hopefully stand out in our shots and attract attention.
So at our location (which ever it ends up being), a girl will be be herself. We want to portray her as someone who is waiting for friends. We want to create the impression that she is innocent and vunlerable but not so much that it's unrealistic for her to be in the chosen scene (i.e. she still fits in at the party/bar).
We are yet to decide if we want one or two males as the suspicious characters. We do know however, that he or they will play a key role in the opening scenes. We want to shoot shots that give the impression that the girl is being watched, and also close ups of the man/men and their sinsiter characteristics. The cocktail comes into play when we see it being spiked with a single 'pill'. We want this particular shot to be successful in creating suspence and being visually 'thrilling'.
We then see the drink either being offered, or sent over via waiter, to the girl.
When she turns to see who sent the drink, the man is gone.
There will be a dramatic change of scene which will hopefully create an almost 'nightmare' illusion. She will be lying on the ground in a remote, dark, forest. (we already have this location.) We see her slowly regain consiousness. Then we want to have flashbacks to the party, with shots of people dancing, flashing 'club' lights, a shot of the d.j., her running through the forest in panic and confusion. The two different locations will be a drastic contrast and therefore will build suspense and really emphasise her confusion and provoke questions from the audience: 'what happened to her?' and most importantly 'who did it?' and 'where is he?'
with careful shooting, we hope to create the sense of her being watched without actually showing any shots of another person in the forest. We hope to do this by making the camera angles slightly absract by having them obstructed by objects (trees, branches etc), as though the camera shows the villan's viewpoint.