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The past few days I've been continuing to do research on cold cases for ideas for what kind of set up I will be doing for my opening. http://www.forensicscolleges.com/blog/resources/10-cold-cases-solved This webpage showed a few examples that really got me getting creative, especially the fisherman story as something like that is plausible in my town.

I've been watching two minute openings of a bunch of different murder mystery movies to understand what their opening's purpose is and how my opening will be able to reach a similar level of meaning. So far I watched The Lovely Bones which I mentioned in my previous blog posts and gave me ideas for the approach that I will be taking to the plot. Possibly having it be form the killers perspective watching the victim or something of the sort to have some mystery involved. Other movies like Shutter Island, Gone Girl, and Sherlock Holmes have also been providing different ideas and perspectives for how I should approach my opening.



Each movie has a creative approach to the opening scene so I want mine to show some individuality while not going too far off the spectrum. 

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