AS Level Media Studies Coursework Intro

My name is Emily and this is my blog about my AS level media studies coursework.
The aim of my coursework is to plan and shoot an opening sequence for a new fiction film.
I will be working with Shazna Khalique on my media studies coursework, and we will be planning our film opening over the next 3 weeks, before filming it some time in January.

We have decided that our film is going to be a thriller film and we will try to make it 2 to 3 minutes long.
We have planned our original idea to be based around someone being murdered, with someone walking through a forest area on their own without knowing that they are being followed by a murderer. The scene will follow this person walking on their own while being followed, until at the end of the scene, the murderer will attack the person, breaking the tension that we hope to build up through the way we've filmed it, the music we use in the background and the location we choose to film it. As well as having shots of the person walking on their own being followed, between shots of this we hope to also have shots of a heart monitor if we are able to get one. In this heart monitor, we will try to have our names and the casts names come up in the monitor, and at the end of the scene, we will show the heart monitor going flat, which will signify the death of the person who is murdered.
Some ideas of locations where we can film include: Greenwich Park, Abbeywood Ruins, Woolwich Crown Court or Belmarsh Prison (Belmarsh Road).
For the music we are going to try and find a song that starts off quite slowly to go with the scene, and as the scene goes on and becomes more tense, the music will become louder, before at the end of the scene, the music will end loudly and dramatic, to go with the tense ending scene.