To see or not to see...

After hearing what our target audience had to say, and looking at some other thrillers, we came to the conclusion that we would reveal the identity of Stalk in the opening sequence. In our target audience research, the majority of the people we asked said they would rather not know the identity of the villain. This was one of the reasons why we chose to show who Stalk was from the beginning. It's a major convention of a thriller to reveal the villains identity at the very end of the film. The only film we watched which revealed the villain straight away was the Dark Knight, which made the film more interesting with the audience seeing the rivalry between Batman and the Joker. To reveal Stalk's identity gives the opening an orginal concept, rarely do films show the perspective of the villain. By going against this convention, our film opening will have a unique difference to the everyday thriller.