A creepy music box tune plays in the background whilst a close up of the spinning doll on the music box comes shows. The scene cuts to a girl in white walking through a forest/empty field (establishing shots/extreme long shots to show vulnerability). The girl is stumbling and the editing begins to get faster (more jump cuts). It becomes apparent that she is being followed or watched and that she is injured. She slumps against a tree and there is a mid shot that then cuts to a close up. An extreme close up of her eyes, pans left behind the tree and the audience see a dark/hooded figure. This light and dark costume for good and evil follows Helmut Nickel's theory of white hats/black hats. When the hooded figure is shown a loud noise is played so that tension is built. The girl attempts to get up and stumble away. The penultimate shot is a point of view shot of the hooded firgure getting closer and closer to the girl until it is right over her and her heavy breathing can be heard. Finally, the scene ends returning to the music box and the spinning figure slowly comes to an end, the box is shut by someone with black leather gloves.
IDEA 2:
The scene begins with a black screen and a slow mumbling, cracked voice talking. It then cuts to a long shot of a girl in an empty room's corner curled into a ball. There is a blue-ish hue over the clips and the girl carries on talking over the top of the clips. It is recognised that she is some sort of psycho. She peers out of the blinds hung up on the window (blinds are similar to bars which is typical thriller iconography). It is apparent that she is keeping tabs on someone when there is then a close up of her messy handwriting in a diary/book. There are jump cuts of her moving around a lot and then there is a close up shot of her talking into the recording tape. This is a very rough idea so exact shots and angles haven't been fully thought out.
Two excellent and completely viable ideas. I particularly like the first. You also need to consider the narrative of the complete film.
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