My Film - The Pitch

For my film opening I have decided to work within the Psychological/Horror genre (with sic-fi elements.)

My opening begins as follows:

• Montage of teenage girl ("scream queen" type) getting ready for a run & texting her friend 
• Girl sets off for run, friend has not yet replied
• Girl runs through cemetery 
• (Lighting begins to dim) Girl gets more and more uneasy, keeps checking her phone (hopeful moment when it gets a text, but its just spam (with a 'seemingly random' message))
• (Heart rate raisers: girl realizes cemetery is abandoned and it's darkening, feels uncomfortable, something in the peripheral (turns, nothing is there,) an out of place noise, non-diegetic music changes pace, camera switching from close-ups of the girl looking panicked to p.o.v shots of something watching her.) 
• Tension reaches climax with the girl breaking into a blind-panic sprint, becoming confused, breathing heavily and on the verge of tears, before getting tangled and tripped up
• Suddenly out of nowhere, the friend she was texting appears. 
• Her friend calms her down, they talk briefly ("Sorry i didn't reply, my phone was out of credit",) and she laughs it off, but still feels slightly uneasy. She tries to ignore the feeling of something still not being right.
• Both set off to finish the run 
• As the camera watches them disappear around a corner, a text alert goes off
• The camera pans down to the ground to reveal the girls phone (which she dropped amongst the leaves in her panic) 
• The text on the phones screen is from her friend, ("Hey! Super sorry, just got ur txt - cn't run 2day 'cuz i'm baby-sitting. Wanna run 2morrow? xxx") 
• The scene ends with a (non-diegetic) slasher noise as an audio bridge and a cut to a black title screen with the main title ("The Impersonation Game") 

My Film - Initial Ideas

1.) Main character in bed, ^^^, tries to sleep again - nightmare(?)(jump cut images of a nightmare) - wakes up sweating - rolls over to sleep again, eyes open to the sound of shattering glass. 

2.) Lots of jump cuts - character keeps waking up in different places. Could use a specific item or effect in the peripheral of each scene. Voice over/non-diegetic sound.

3.) Normal bathroom routine - bends to spit out toothpaste, reflection doesn't move, (blinks - eyes change colour) just looks down at real person. Real person looks back up, reflection is smiling - holding scissors. Real person looks in confusion, then terror - reflection slits throat - real person's blood splatters window, drops to floor. Reflection smiles - bloodied teeth, blood dripping from neck - turns to look directly into the camera, tilts head, smiles wider. 

Influences

• Scream (1996)
• Scream (Netflix Series, 2015-) Opens with shot of a lake and dock at night, non-diegetic music playing "Daisy Daisy.." - cut to make out scene and then montage (with non-diegetic music) of social media sharing before a close-up of a character's face, then cut to an antagonist and murder scene commences