Opening Scenaration - Miss Miller

The first shots the killer walking (low key lighting), where the audience do not know, but will find out later in the sequence.  Susan Moore, a seventeen year old, who is a secretary drives home from work.  A panning shot of a car passing the repton tower.  A POV shot is shown when she is driving the car, showing what she can see on the road, this helps the audience build a relationship with the victim.  She drives into the car park of where her apartment is.  She gets out of the car (mid shot) and realizes there's a man in a mask looking at her, and then realizes that he standing there with a knife (close up shot of victims face, she begins running.  When the knife is shown, a jump cut, is done to make the audience focus and let them know that there is a knife involved as this is iconography and it is a key part.  She runs into a forest, a straight cut is used to show a change of location.  As she is running, a jerky handheld POV shot, showing what she can see at her own eye level.  A shot is shown of the killer walking, as he follows the victim.  This is conventional to the thriller genre because the killer is confident that they are going to catch the victim.  The victim stops looks around, thinking that she has got away from him, but then  something is put over her head and and the screen goes black and you just hear screaming which fades into the background.

Overall, the low key lighting will make it more conventional because it creates an eerie atmosphere for the audience, this would make the sequence better.  A close up of the victims face will make the audience relate to the character as her emotion will be shown.