Final Idea

We decided unanimously at our first group meeting that the genre of our opening sequence should be 'horror/thriller', and decided on the following final idea:

• a rape scene, committed at the girl's house.
• the girl is aged around 18, and lives in her own flat.
• she has had a difficult, troubled childhood, and turned to drink, drugs, partying, and sex as a form of escape.
• because of what she has been through, she has been in and out of therapy from a young age.
• one night, after a particularly heavy night's drinking, she is followed home, and brutally shoved through the door to her flat and raped there.
• the emphasis would be on the fact that the rape is very physical, violent, aggressive, and angry as oppose to sexual or passionate in anyway.
• the story will however, be told through a series of flashbacks, as the girl tells the story to her therapist.
• there will be some kind of hinting or insinuation that her therapist is in fact her rapist (we thought this would be a clever play on the word 'therapist' breaking down into 'the rapist'). The therapist will maybe suggest to her that it is down to her provocative style of dress and loud, drunken behaviour.