Synopsis for Opening Sequence ‘The Teacher’

This two minute opening sequence is about the dark and twisted side of a teacher who has two very different personalities, as by day she teaches at her college but by night is a cold hearted killed. The audience is left questioning the film as we use fast paced cuts between the good and bad sides of her.

We see a teacher going about her daily routine in Havering College; she walks into the building and goes through the barriers by swiping her ID card. Minding her own business looking content she walks up the two flights of stairs and through the empty corridors to her classroom.

In the classroom she now grabs her notebook and sits as her desk and goes through it, as she does this she is interrupted by one of her students who has come to see for some help. The student explains to her that she confused and doesn’t understand what was said in today’s lesson. As the students sits down the teacher looking confused asks her what exactly she didn’t understand as the things she went over were fairly simple. Continuing to plead and beg the teacher to understand that she really needs help, we then see the teachers dark and nasty side as she tell the student that unfortunately she can’t be of any help to her, while doing this she slams her pen on her table and leans forward, urging the student to leave. The student gets up looking shocked yet confused and leaves the classroom. A knife with blood being wiped of is what we see next and an unknown person admiring it.

We then see an unidentified person walking up a different flight of stairs heading to a classroom in the college. When they arrive at the classroom we see the same student from earlier on, on a computer. As they turn round they look scared and frightened to see this mystery person that hasn’t yet been revealed to the audience. The person walks into the classroom then shuts the door. We then see the student lying on the floor as this mystery person hovers over the body and walks round to the front of the body and kneeling down pulls down their hood down and looks up revealing their identity as the teacher.