Film Opening - Summary

In this task I am working with Jamie and Alice. The film treatment we have come up with is for a film we will call "Souldier" and is about a man who is in the British army and is sent to the Falklands during the war. Instead of staying and fighting during a battle, we see him separated from the rest of his battalion and running away. He gets shot and killed by an enemy sniper, however this doesn't mark the end of his life, but rather the start of death. He is now stuck in "limbo", and cant find a way to pass on into the next life. Invisible to the rest of the world, with no one to help, he is forced to deal with the situation he has found himself in, and learn why running away never solves life's problems. The genre of the film opening will be a supernatural thriller, and we want to combine the eeriness of films like "sixth sense" and "the happening" with the pace confrontation of "Saving Private Ryan" and "300". As these films have million dollar budgets, we are not expecting to have the same qualities, however we are aiming to use clever filming techniques and software to accurately convey the same effects and suspense of this films.