Opening sequence- script draft 1

News Reporter:

 This is breaking news just in, in regards to the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City that occurred on the September 11^th. Whilst the country has been captured in a state of emergency, central intelligence forces have been frantically searching for suspects who may be involved with the plots. 1,344 people were the victims of a commercial air-line that crashed into the north tower of the twin towers at 8:45am. A mere 20 minutes later the south tower came under attack, which resulted in a total of 2,976 deaths. We have retrieved information from our sources that there has been a breakthrough and one male has been convicted under suspicions of involvement. Evidence points to the fact that his contributions were crucial to the initiation of the attacks. Officials have found numerous illustrations dated six months prior to the attacks which depict the attacks in great detail as well as accurate events that surfaced during the state of emergency.

This was a script that was a lot different to our other ones. Here we experimented by using many more facts and figures and unlike our other drafts, the time period this dialogue is delivered in is sometime after the attacks, a week perhaps. This took our storyboard to a different direction as much information revealing the plot was voiced within the contents of this dialogue. We initially intended to leave the audience asking questions rather than allowing them to acknowledge the introduction of our main character. Nevertheless we took this into consideration but found that this script would be impractical.

This fails to capture the audience’s attention due to the facts about the 911 attacks, it had also foreshadowed too much information that we wanted the audience to not be aware of at first. Our preliminary intentions for our opening sequence were that it should be based around one topic that is vital to the progressive narrative. This had also taken from us the opportunity to include a cut-back shot that we agreed was vital to display in our opening sequence. Though the ideas from this script are good, it gives too much information away about our narrative which fails to meet the codes and conventions of a psychological thriller.