Final idea

Final idea for movie opening

Pitch:

 My idea involves of a female character (young adult) who is some sort of presumed life guard or swim teacher for a group of 12-15 young kid. The main character, Jasmine, (supposedly late for work) rushes through the side door to enter the building and sees the kids are already in the swimming pool playing and messing around. Jasmine makes a small remark that conveys a sense of suspicion to why they are unsupervised by a fellow colleague. She casually asks one of the kids where ‘miss’  and the kid dismissively reply’s with ‘I don’t know, she went out a minute ago’. The character does not think twice about where her collogue is and just goes through the corridor to the changing rooms (long tracking shot follows character). The last shot of the children splashing around has a long shot duration and almost lingers for a few seconds before moving and following the main character to convey almost an  omnipresent presence that acts as a threat to the children which inevitably should forebodes something bad is about to happen. The scene continues with the main character quickly changing and putting her bag down (putting flip-flops tops and life guard t shirt). There is a sense of a burden on the characters conscience. The character takes a second to check herself in the mirror before heading out.

 A potential Idea I was think was that whilst the character is collecting her thoughts in the changing room, there should be sudden flashes and the children slowly starting to drown where there is a sudden realisation that something may have happened.

As she leaves the mirror the shot lingers again and the focus changes to the other side of the changing room where you see a bit of hair (maybe fake blood) discreetly coming out from behind a wall. The main character does not see this detail and returns to the swimming pool. As she enters the pool area, she sees that all children are face down floating and all of them seem to be in a trace or worse dead. The rest of the title sequence will consist of underwater shots of the children floating and moving around in the water, panning from child to child. The scene ends with the assumption something supernatural has taken place and jasmine is at the centre of it all.