Possible final idea

For the beginning of our opening scene, an establishing camera shot will be used to give the audience a brief view of the Mise-en-scene. Within the establishing shot, we will be able to see the house that is the setting for the first scene. The camera then cuts to inside the house, and moves up the stairs to the girl’s room. All this camera work is edited to make it look like it is from a person’s perspective, the person’s identity being concealed. When the camera enters the room, you will notice a person asleep in the bed. As the camera begins to focus on the persons details, you will realize it is a girl. The girl will be moving about, to symbolize a troubled sleep. The shot may then zoom into her face, and fade to white or black. This will show we are entering her dream.
The next scene will be the dream. There will be some sort of effect on the camera, e.g. Sepia or Black & White, to show the dream is in the past, which in our case are the Victorian times. There may be some distortion on the shots, using editing we can create the effect of a nightmare-ish type shot. The actual dream will consist of an attack on the girl in the dream. The girl in the dream is actually herself. A man, whose identity is hidden, will attack her with a sharp object, seriously injuring her. During the attack, the camera will catch a shot of the man slicing her hand, creating a laceration. The camera shots then begin to get very intense as the climax of the attack gets nearer. The camera shot then cuts to the girl’s perspective. At this point she is on the floor struggling, and she looks up towards her attacker. The camera then glances across his face to reveal his identity for a fraction of a second, before he strikes her with an object and the screen goes black. At this point the dream stops abruptly as the girl wakes up panicking. She will be perspiring, and she will have a scared expression on her face. She will then get out of bed as she realizes it was merely a dream.