Development of our Storyline

From our initial discussions, brainstorms and research we have been able to create a narrative for our final coursework piece. We decided our genre to be a Crime Thriller and to base our storyline around stalking. I have watched several TV series revolved around stalking and I personally am really interested about the topic. We had to discuss several factors before we could start to put a storyboard together. Firstly, our main protagonist is going to be a young female student. This is typically cliche using a young female as the victim however to be able to fit the criteria of a Thriller, we had to stick some generic themes. Our antagonists gender is yet to be decided due to our group conflicting about what the gender should be and we are still unsure. The antagonist being a male would again be so typically generic and even more so with our topic being stalking which is why Lily and I were discussing whether the antagonist should be female. Due to only making the opening sequence of the film, the antagonists identity and gender will be hidden from the audience, leaving it rather ambiguous and biased. I personally think that leaving it hidden from the audience is what makes our Thriller film different because it makes the audience want to see more and find out. When we finally come to a conclusion about the gender of our antagonist, it is automatic that there is some sort of relationship between the protagonist and antagonist but again it is unknown to the audience.

We have not created a shot list at this moment in time but as a group we have a brief idea of what order we want things to be presented as:
First shot will be of a pin board showing lots of pictures of our protagonist
This will then lead to shots of our antagonist looking innocent and happy
Then a shot of antagonist walking down path, dark setting then appears someone blurred in the distance
Cuts out very quickly into credits/title 
Cuts back to antagonist feeling and looking worried about her surroundings

This is where we have gotten up to so far, there are still lots of aspects we need to take think about:
- Lighting
- Sound
- Costumes
- Title/credit colours