Our film Ideas and Synopsis

Our initial ideas for our opening sequence of a film are as follows:
A film following the life of Issei Sagawa. Issei was a Japanese man who in 1981, while studying in Paris, killed and cannibalised on a Dutch student named Renee Hartevelt.

In a 2011 Vice documentary, Sagawa claimed his desire for human flesh originated from seeing a males thigh while at school. He also confessed to bestiality with his dog while he was a child.
When he was 23, In Tokyo, Sagawa followed a German woman home with the intent to murder and eat her, however she awoke after a small bit of flesh was taken and called the police. Sagawa was areested for attempted rape, he did not confess to his true intentions.
When he was 28, he emigrated to France to study for a PhD in literature at Sorbonne. While in Paris he claimed "Almost every night I would bring a prostitute home and then try to shoot them, but for some reason my fingers froze up and I couldn't pull the trigger." 
When Issei was 32, he invited a classmate to his apartment for dinner with the false intent of translating poetry for a school assignment. Issei had selected Renee for her health characteristics which he claimed he lacked, he said later said he wanted to absorb her energy through cannibalisation.
Issei shot Renee in the back of her head with a rifle, immediately afterwards he fainted. He later awoke and tried to cut into her flesh. He purchased a butchers knife to cut Renee up easily and stored body parts in his fridge for 2 days, occasionally eating various parts of her.
Issei then tried to dump the remaining body parts in a river in two suitcases. However he was caught in the act and arrested by French police.
Issei was jailed for a while in France but after being diagnosed with mental illness he was extradited to Japan where he lived out the rest of his life freely.

Of course the story is a bit more complicated that this and if I were making a full film I would explain it all in detail. However we are shooting only the opening to the film. In this short clip we have the task of identifying Issei, creating an enigma, creating tension and suspense and keeping the viewer interested and keen on watching the remainder of the film in theory.

Our early idea for the short clip is having Issei walking through a graveyard at night dressed in all black. We also want to depict Issei's first victim which he followed home and attempted to eat. A short chase scene and a final scene of Issei hiding in the woman's home should be included. To create suspense, the attempt on the woman's life should not be included in the opening as this will create tension and hold the viewers attention. We were also thinking of having a scene of Issei dumping two suitcases at the beginning to create an enigma, however this idea is dependant on how much time is left after the other scenes.