Research and Development

 A major detail and problem was faced when developing our story. For the group meetings my whole group all said the story plot and opening was good. They had great information to give and small details to address but nothing major. HOWEVER, when my partner, Sebas, came back from his project he looked almost frightened. Sebas told me that for our major portion of the opening and Film storyline in general we couldn't use "Stalking"... Oh my goodness! That wasn't our whole plot but it was near close to it.
We urgently went to Mrs. Stoklosa. I asked her of this and she did say we couldn't use it but the matter wasn't as detrimental as we thought. Moving on, she told us we could pretty much keep everything the same and eliminate the shots that we thought brought the feeling of stalking. The plot then stayed the same and we changed the "sort of kidnapping" to the protagonist being harmed by the stranger in his own house. We felt like this was possibly even better? 
Here is the altered version of the shot list I made from my partners original.
Shot 1: Establishing long shot 
Shows the entrance of the house and then a long shot of pool party.
Shot 2: High-angle long shot
Shows another angle of the pool party .
Shot 3: Medium shot 
Shows focus on two people who are friends and also shows the background of the party.
Shot 4: Wide shot
Shows people jumping into the pool.
Shot 5: Multiple medium shots
Multiple shots of people drinking, and playing games. This is to show that the party is getting out of hand.
Shot 6: Medium shot 
Two friends shown at the beginning realize how drunk they are so they leave the party (tracking shot).
 
Shot 7: Medium shot
Show the friends walking down the street.
Shot 8: Medium shot 
Displays one friend in the background walking entering his house and the other friend (Dan) continue walking. Is focused on Dan. In the background, the other side of the street shows the serial killer.
Shot 9: Point of view shot
(This shot will be altered to a point of view shot from the killer but the manor isn't as much stalking)
Shot 10: Medium shot
This shot is changed to a medium shot of the killer and another of Dan
Shot 11: Medium shot
Tracking shot of serial killer following Dan.
Shot 12: Medium shot
Dan thinks he sees someone following him but does not put much thought into it.
 
Shot 13: Medium shot 
Dan walks into his house and does not close door.
Shot 14: Point of view shot
Displays POV. In POV there is a shadow of a person in the background.
Shot 15: Medium shot
Dan looks to see who's in his house and then turns around.
Shot 16: POV
After turning around there is a jump scare of the serial killer attacking Dan.
Shot 17: Wide shot
Dan strapped to the chair in bottom left third of frame. Serial killer on the right third picking something.
Shot 18: Point of View
POV of serial killer picking weapons from the table.
Shot 19: Close up
Shows Dans face to get his reaction and scream for the end of the film opening.

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