Storyboarding

Since we did the remake of the hangover, I've started to think about what I could use as a story in my main coursework this year. I've watched quite a few films about serial killers, like Silence Of The Lambs, Zodiac and Red Dragon, and I've always thought in them that the way that the serial killer is perceived in most serial killer films is often very commonly obvious that it is them they have something major to play in the story because of their outlandish personality. In Silence Of The Lambs, Buffalo Bill is never really shown up until the end of the film, but yet he is known to be something crucial in the plot. I wanted to change this and create a very realistic character that would seem like an everyday person, but still be known to be serial killer, playing around with the way that the audience perceive him; is he a serial killer or not?

In Zodiac the serial killer is never really known but there are a lot of suspects in the story, the detectives and the writer in the story never really capture him for the majority of the film, but they meet him in the first half of it. I found that because the story was real it was more interesting, but still I found the ending really frustrating as the audience because of the films length it made it really annoying that even though they had captured the suspect halfway through the film, the let him go and didn't cath him at the end of the film because he dies of a heart attack.

To make the audience more engaged with how the killer is known from the very first shot of the film, but make his character more realistic as a normal person would make it very complicated for the audience to choose whether he is the killer or not, applying plot points that point to someone else being the killer, but still left with a massive plot point that points the finger at the first suspect.