Behind The Scenes: The Story

We understood the storyline perfectly fine because we had created it but we had to take into account just what complete strangers or people who had no idea what it was about would think, this is what we had to clearly show in our thriller opening. Our plot was that a man walks into a graveyard, walks along until he reaches a certain gravestone he then turns and stares at it until he sees a vision of him and his girlfriend before the war when he used to be a good man he then has a flash back to the day he let his friend die. Two soldiers including himself ,either good friends or not, would be on a patrol near the base so no cause for alarm or caution was needed. We then decided that one would be injured and instead of patrolling they would be close to the base so that the injured man could get medical treatment. While they have their guard down they're ambushed by Vietcong, the injured soldier is shot and the other gets to cover. The whole flashback is set in the Vietnam war so it is a brutal experience for these men. The main character looks at his friend dying on the floor and wants to help him but he's to scared so he runs away from the battle and leaves the man for dead. We then return to the graveyard where the man is twenty years older his life is in ruin and he regrets leaving him that day the man then leaves the graveyard. This man has been suicidal for years and seeing as this is an opening it would be what the film is about. So overall we had to show this story to the audience with decent actors, a good location and some real good editing and camera angles. To go into extra detail about making the story as good as we possibly could we would either arrive on location with ideas and pick the best ones or we would meet round each others houses and take notes or ideas on the story.