Research:
      I really want this film opening to be able to exactly represent this genre, even though we are stepping a little outside the usual by making the main character a teenager and the serial killer. My partner, Lucia, and I started looking for films that also centered around the idea of a woman serial killer. One of the films that constantly came up was the movie Carrie directed by Brian De Palma in 1976.

                       









      This movie presents a teenage girl who is very shy and who is constantly being controlled by her extremely religious mother. One day she discovers that she has this supernatural powers,and the day of her prom she unleashes these powers after being humiliated in front of the whole school.
      Carrie, is a thriller film with a main character who is a girl. She is presented as this innocent soft girl that is bullied by other students. In films that are thrillers, horror, or suspense, a woman usually gets to have "rich emotional lives". Most of the times the play victims who are incapable of saving themselves and most of the times the end up getting killed. However, in this film, Carrie, uses her powers to dominate over those people who had humiliated her, and even ends up killing some of the students at the prom.
      For our film opening, we want to first show a delicate girl that no one would think anything wrong about her, but towards the end the audience finds out that she has murdered several people. By researching about this film, Carrie, I now have a more clear image in my head of how the storyline of the opening film will unfold, and how to show the main character in a way that will leave the viewers on the edge of their seats, and wanting to keep watching.

Citations:
Jeslip. “Horror Movies With Female Killers.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 1 Aug. 1969, www.imdb.com/list/ls031962008/.

Berlatsky, Noah. “Carrie at 40: Why the Horror Genre Remains Important for Women.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 3 Nov. 2016, www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/03/carrie-stephen-king-brian-de-palma-horror-films-feminism.