Planning

​In this post, I will discuss how I want my film to be organized. I wrote it down on paper because that's what feels most natural to me, but I will also explain it in text form in more depth.

So to break down my opening, I labeled it into four main parts: the murder, the title sequence, and the brother. The paper shows four different sections but after really thinking on having a time contrint of only about 2 minutes, I had to cut out a section.

The Murder 

This section consists of the foreshadowing that I stressed my film will have. In this scene, a static shot close-up of a knife in a dark room will be shown being picked up from a countertop. Then you will hear heavy breathing and groaning from what sounds like a gagged man. Following this, you will hear stabbing sounds and screaming coming from that man. After 5 seconds, the screaming will stop, and a different voice will whisper "filthy" whilst breathing heavily. This scene will then cut to black.

Title Sequence

After cutting to black, suspenseful/eerie music will begin to play, and the production company's name will appear. I want my production name to be "Elysian Productions." There's no specific reason as to why I picked this to be the production name other than I like the word elysian, meaning heavenly or qualities of paradise. After that, the title will appear on the screen. I want my title to be "Blood Between Us". Referencing the relationship that the siblings have in the title was a big thing for me because I didn't want it to be a secret that the brother was the killer in the film.

The Brother

After that seen, the camera track behind the Ethan, the kelder brother walking to a bathrrom door, as he knocks it will cut to a scene of the sister brushing her teeth. The brother then says"Hey, is that boy from earlier still bothering you?" Zoe will respond, "No, he hasnt been to school in weeks actually" He walks off, and a very SLIGHT smirk appears on his face, and the scene ends. As the characters are shown on screen, their names will appearrespectively on the corner of the screen.