The Three- Concepts

Concept 1- Emma Weeks

Creepy music playing in the background throughout the opening.

A black screen. Jump cut to a trail of blood.  Tracking shot follows trail of blood across the floor until it rests upon a newspaper headed “Missing” with an image of the first victim there will be another article on the page with the heading “Directed by Morgan Redman”.  Jump cut with shaken transition to long shot of a fridge and the work surface (surface should be cluttered and fridge should be covered with newspaper clippings and pictures with a bloodied handprint on the corner as if someone opened it with bloodied hands).  Mid shot of the fridge being opened (hand opening fridge out of shot).  Close up shot of items in the fridge selection of glass vials and jars fill the fridge tracking shot along the shelves (one jar should have a label reading “edited by Dylan Koolman”).  Jump cut to a shot of a picture pinned to the wall with a red string attached to it (string should be out of focus) pull focus to string then tracking shot along string to piece of note paper reading “starring __________ and ____________” tracking shot along another piece of string to a picture of a girl walking across a path taken from between trees zoom out of the image shakily with interspersed black screen to reveal a sprawling pin board map of pictures of various girls which appear to have been taken inconspicuously.  Jump cut across the counter top where their is a collection of broken glass, a hammer and a bloodied scalpel, a picture with the face clawed off and a scrap of paper which reads “camera work by Emma Weeks”.  Jump cut to pictures in a line across the wall with red X’s over them and a memento hanging under each of them a locket, a ring and a watch under each of the images should be a name of one of the actors with less signifiant roles.  Jump cut to a row of three arms on the floor with a vertical line cut into each arm (the film title the three).

Concept 2- Dylan Koolman

Eerie music plays in the background, begin with a black screen, a person is seen sitting in a dark room with low key lighting slowly and mechanically brushing the hair of a doll. Slow zoom in to person but focus is on doll. Angle switch to over the shoulder to show hair brushing then cut in to foot of doll, dripping blood. The brush then suddenly gets caught in hair the doll’s hair; triggering major screen distortion then a flash down. Flash up to a bottle on a table at a canted angle then flash down. Flash up to show slow motion fall of an open bottle, flash down. Flash slow motion of dripping liquid off of the table, memento in the background, bottle had a credit written on it, screen distortion, shows broken jar still leaking liquid, then flash down. Music begins to pick up, jump shot to figure walking running hands over table, distortion, picks up picture, overlay of original picture which is solarised distorting across the screen, and after image which now has scratched out faces. Drop of image, slow motion of image falling, dramatic slow to view credit on the back, zoom in to reveal text. Low angle and high angle switches of map on wall with red, pinned, stringthen focus with fast zoom in of map at forward facing angle. Distortionaction shot of putting up picture of next victim with a red ‘X’ through the picture and blood dripping down the picture, jump shot to the bottom of the picture of the victim with a credit written on it distortion, music reaches high tension then cut to black and silence. Slow fade up of music and scene to show dirty arms curling up with cuts on them to read “The Three” across the arms. Arms go to full extension but are canted at the wrist or slightly at the elbow. Fade to black.

Concept 3- Morgan Redman

[Introduction: True North Productions]

A black screen… Jump cut to a dark room filled with various silhouettes of objects. Screen distortion cut to a hand tracing the red string of a map as they pull on the string making it vibrate. They walk over to a worktop and place a scalpel on the table next to a newspaper with the directors’ name on. Jump cut with solarisation as the hand opens a fridge containing bottles with a variety of liquids in; the editors name is on one of the bottles. Jump cut as the hand of the killer writes a note in their journal concerning the date and preparation for the murder of number ‘three’; upon closing the notebook it says camerawork by… Jump cut with solarisation as the killer walks over to a wall with two polaroid pictures on, the faces are scratched out in the pictures, and beneath each is the newspaper headline of they day they were noted missing whilst a seal lock bag hangs with a lock of hair from each victim… There is an empty slot for the third victim. Jump Cut with screen distortion as the murderer returns to the table and cuts their index finger until it bleeds enough to leave a bloody fingerprint on the empty polaroid picture. Jump cut to the arms of the two victims’ bodies spelling out the title “The Three”. 

(Creepy jumpy crescendo music plays in the background)