Development of Preliminary

From the basic outline, we knew we needed someone walking down a corridor, going through a door and talking to someone.
As we are doing a horror/ thriller for our finished product. we thought it would be best to do a similar genre for our preliminary. This would allow us to experiment with shots and other techniques used in filming to convey the atmospheric feelings of tension and suspense.

Instead of walking down a corridor, the character is walking home, although she does walk down her corridor inside the house. Going through the door could either be through the front door or her bedroom door and instead of talking, we felt a single, scream would be more appropriate.
We filmed at dusk/night because this would create the necessary atmosphere and lighting. We thought this was vital to the mise en scene of our preliminary.

We chose Kerry Pike to be the victim as she appears vulnerable and represents the classic stereotype.
Our murderer does not appear in the filming, which provides a mysterious, ominous atmosphere, coupled with the diagetic heavy breathing. We thought that to convincingly not show the murderer, we needed to use a handheld camera, to portray the murderer's point of view.