Idea For Film Opening

I had an original idea which is slightly similar to the idea below, but changed bits after talking to Miss and realising that something simpler and easier to shoot would be more suitable, and also effective as an opening. It has the same overall concept and themes, but the idea that would be shown in the sequence is different. My original idea involved the same start, but had a different flashback that was all one sequence. It involved the killer following and stalking the girl and killing her. There was also another character involved (the girl’s boyfriend.) However we decided that this idea was too complicated to shoot and difficult with a lot of camera movement, point of view shots etc. It also seemed extremely time consuming, especially as we only have a limited amount of time to complete it. We therefore came up with another idea which I like more and think is a lot better.

The idea:
It's based around an obsessive killer, whose fixation causes him to do something he may regret. The scene would open on a male character sitting in the corner of a dark, empty room (however we just need to show the corner and could have a prop like a tray of food.) He seems quite disturbed and is therefore rocking back and forth, shivering, mumbling to himself and generally acting like he’s not quite right in the head. Then there can be a close-up of his feet (bare foot, dirty etc.) and it tilts up to introduce him properly as a character. He’s looking down at first but then looks up, straight into the camera. We will then enter his thoughts (zoom into eyes?) and see what he is thinking about. It will cut to him and this girl together, hugging, seeming happy but there is something going on. During this it will cut back to him in the corner. From the shots of the boy and girl, it will gradually begin to show them arguing, (she’s dumping him, but it’s completely unexpected to the boy). The boy is so in love that it has turned into an obsession and he can’t accept or understand why she is doing this. It then starts to get increasingly violent between the boy and girl, where the boy starts to get frustrated. Example of a shot could be she touches his arm saying “I’m sorry,” and in return he grabs her arm violently. There can be dialogue added in such as, Girl – “you’re hurting me,” “what’s wrong with you?!” “get off!” He’s silent. Throughout these shots, we will inter-cut with the shots of him in the corner, getting more and more uncomfortable, upset, distressed, seems like he’s suffering a lot. Eventually he kills the girl, and it abruptly cuts back to him in the corner, where he is sweating, breathing heavily. The final shot will be of the sound of the door opening and a woman (nurse?) entering and saying something like “here’s your medication,” and then it shows how the man is reluctant to take it.

The shots of the boy and girl could be shot in one sequence and then cut up into different shots that we will flash back to in the opening sequence. The shots of the boy in the corner can also be shot as one sequence, or a few and then cut up. For location, we would just need one room for the boy and girl and just a dark corner for the boy.

“If I can’t have her…no one can”

Possible Titles:
Obsession
Fixation
Love Obsession