Rationale and proposal

The idea we chose for our final piece is mostly idea 1 with a little bit of idea 2 in it. As idea 1 was the most original and in our audience research people did say they wanted something different with the protagonist being a female and so on. As idea 2 has been done before and mostly has been successful we thought we would use elements like the candle light and hymns in our final piece as it creates tension and carries the whole opening on. The whole mis-en-scene of the opening sequence will mostly be quiet dark as we wanted to use one or two thriller conventions and this and confined spaces ,worked best as we will use  a dark small room where the only lights will be either lights from windows yet it has to be dark enough to light our candles and give off the mysterious effect that thrillers should do. We will use mainly close-ups to build tension and suspense as the audience will not see everything, just bits of the board game and hardly any of the person. At the end of the opening sequence it will be a cliff hanger with in our questionnaire most people said they preferred cliff hangers, our last shot would be the persons eyes and when we would go onto a shot of the snake and then the title of the movie, this should leave the audience in suspense as there will be moments of darkness before the snake and after the eyes, and as there's nothing to tell who the person is or any introduction of them it should leave people wanting to find out what happens next, who the person was and why there was a game being played.