23/01/2012 Meeting

In this meeting we were given the idea of having the protagonist in a large online hacker community which is led by a skilled, expert hacker. Our protag isn't very experienced compared to the others in his group and this would be seen a "coming of age" film where our protag matures as a person in order to help his friends. This is the suggestion we received about the basic plot of our opening sequence combined with some of our own ideas:

• The opening sequence starts with close ups of our protagonist, rookie hacker and his room. We’ll see his hands typing on the keyboard, a table cluttered with mugs and crumbs indicating, ears covered by headphones etc. On his screen we’ll see that he is talking to people through an instant messenger while on webcam.
• Some shots of his fellow hackers shown from our protagonist’s point of view (from the webcam) appear in between the close ups. One could be eating their breakfast, another could be sitting in the park, using their laptop and someone could be listening to music. There should be people of all sorts of race, gender, age, location.
• One of the webcams shown will be of the lead hacker, it will be made obvious that he is the leader because he will be the only one talking; the rest of the hackers will be contacting each other through instant messenger while the leader instructs them.
• Through the webcam we then see a figure come behind the leader, we see the figure strike the leader and then then his webcam goes blank.
• The group is panicking; they're asking each other what’s going on through the chat.
• We cut to the protagonist in front of his computer, he's in shock from what’s just happened, sweat dripping down his forehead and trembling slightly.
• The protagonist takes off his headphones to hear a sharp knocking on his door and the sequence ends at this cliff-hanger.