Synopsis - by Rachel

The basic plot of our film opening is of a mother driving into town with her child, she parks in an enclosed carpark, leaves her child there and forgets to lock the door. We see her walk off and then the focus changes to the child, that he is alone and therefore vulnerable. We then see that he is not alone in the car park and this new character is an antagonist. This is suggested by use of sound and cinematography and we do not see the full figure of this person but only outlines, shadows, his feet, hands or silhouettes which opens more questions about who he is and keeps us distant emotionally from the character as we don't see his face but we know that he is of importance by a use of CU shots. It then becomes increasingly intense as the camera cross-cuts from him to the child in the car, creating a relationship between the two and we see that the child is in danger. Our opening finishes with a shot of the empty car seat where the child was sitting. We plan to keep it simple by including no dialogue and for the opening to open up lots of questions that need to be answered such as "where has the mother gone?", "When will she come back and how will she react to her child missing?", "who is the person that took the child?" in the way that we have seen most thriller openings do.