'Location Scouting'

With the pretence of finding a place to film our thriller opening, we headed to a cornfield, because something about corn just spells murder to me. Anyway we went, and our location scouting turned into more of an informal run through. So here is a 'mini series' of pictures which demonstrate our initial ideas. Really we did this to work out the correct camera angles to hide the new housing estate in an attempt to keep our piece looking as much western USA as Staffordshire farmland...

This is the alley that leads onto the cornfield, we thought we could have our victim walk straight down the alley towards the camera and then when they swerve off, we could see the silhouette of our attacker at the other end of the alley.

Obviously our victim would be walking with more purpose and urgency, but ultimately we would track their walk across the field.

The logistics of this here shot have yet to be worked out, but basically our victim stops and the camera turns 180 following her face as she looks over her shoulder. Her attacker is visible standing underneath the tree (silhouetted?) Cue dramatic instrumental here...

We would then fast cut between shots of our victim approaching the tree...

And the attacker preparing some weapon of some kind. (here, invisible rope)

As our victim nears the tree, the cuts were going to get faster...

In theory the attacker's identity would be hidden, but it was unusually bright that day...

Once the murder has been committed (we didn't act that bit out), we would go to a long shot of the field, and we were then going to start our next scene, when the body is found, on a shot from the same distance/angle, just at a different time of day, so that the audience can differentiate between the two scenes.

NOTE: Since taking these pictures, the field has been reduced to mud, due to mid season ploughing, therefore we shall be uprooting our scene and reworking it on Cannock Chase. Also we have decided it is probably best if we have some dialogue to open with, either a voice over or character narrative reminiscent of that of 'No Country for Old Men'.