There are two stories running at the same time between which the camera will cut. The main focus will be on the second shot, yet the most action will be included in the first, as this particular scene happens to be a relatively high paced fight scene.
The first scene is the general fracas in which our man is killed
We see the House being trashed, pictures falling off walls, doors banging, crockery smashing and such like, as the main fight will take place in the kitchen. There will be a deliberately wide angle shot that shows the setting in the house/ apartment to which we will go back to later on in the opening to show the same scene, but highlight the differences between the then present, and the now present.
The other scene entails a slow paced journey in the back of a taxi for a woman going home. There is a highlighted lack of dialogue, with all responses to an over chatty cab driver being in facial expressions from woman, her lack of engagement for all to see. One particular shot we wish to use is a mirror shot, where the cabbie looks back whilst/or doing/does a hand gesture of sorts, only for the woman reading a document of some sorts to do with work.
These 2 shots cut to and fro regularly and this can be seen by looking at our storyboard, for we have shown this by way of images.
She has clear dislike for this particular cab, and gets out asap, with all music immediately stopping, and giving way to the eerie sounds of street. She slowly walks up to her front door, noticing that the door is double locked, this surprise shown by her initial instinct of just walking up to the door and opening it with one key. Once she is inside there is no music, just diegetic sound showing what she is doing. night/day?
She comes home and the house is completely normal but for a fallen plant which she picks up and tidies, thinking little of it. She then proceeds to go into the kitchen and there is a note explaining the absence that was shown by the complications with the lock. The note will say “be back soon” or something equally as vague. The note is positioned next to a general assortment of household nicknacks but there is a mock police badge located here that is clears to the audience. She then turns on the kettle, and proceeds in her normal home life: pottering around, watching television while putting away the dishes.
Suddenly there is a knock on the door and it’s the police, and with reference back to scene 1, We see the cop is the killer. Yet the strange thing is, the woman and him know each other and seem quite close (possibly through the husband’s work) we can see this closeness by the way they great each other.
He tells her there’s been an accident
They go through to the kitchen, her looking and acting emotionally weaker and unstable, and this is where we see same shot as before during the fight, but this time the surroundings being a clean, spotless hallway.
In the hallway, he straightens a picture on which the camera focuses; it is of a wedding or party, in which both killer and victim in the same photo but this time as close friends.
End of 2 minutes.
