Wednesday 26 January 2011

Thriller Opening Ideas

Initial Ideas


RACE AGAINST TIME

Antagonist (Mikey) has a weakness ie. (unstable, traumatized, always lives in regret)
Protagonist (john) knows antagonists secret, uses that to ridicule him, and sent him over the edge. Which eventually concludes in his murder. 

- A guy sitting on end of his bed looking at a gun, shivering/shaking heads in his hands... lifts up his head and blinks. (hoodie, jeans) casual. 
FLASHBACK occurred in own house (based in victims house, bedroom)
- this same guy with blood on his left hand and a gun in right hand, he's breathing heavily (still filled with adrenaline) looks down to shirt to see blood everywhere. (open collared shirt and black trousers, black jacket next to him) implying the murder was just like business. (upstairs, where murder takes place -bedroom a mess as if he's had an outburst of rage, antagonist and camera glances at wardrobe as if someone is there)
FLASHBACK occurred in victims house (based in cambridge) (victim in this scene)
(close up of clock. going back in time very fast)
goes back through antagonists mind, of a guy surrounded by a group laughing and joking. 

(back in victims bedroom) Runs down stairs to kitchen, antagonist realizes he must dispose of the gun, he washes hands violently, trying to get the blood off. Uses cloth to remove fingerprints from gun...a ring of the doorbell and the ring of the phone, (a voice calls the name John. Turns out to be a friend of victim, but the trauma has led him to believe someone (police) has found him out) interrupts him and, panics (you can hear his thoughts running through his head and heartbeat) runs out of back door.

Final Idea


RACE AGAINST TIME


After feedback from the rest of the class, we found that to improve it, we needed to cut down the amount of action that was in our sequence. This included leaving questions unanswered and not revealing too much of the story line.


Antagonist (Mikey) has a weakness ie. (unstable, traumatized, always lives in regret)
Protagonist (john) knows antagonists secret, uses that to ridicule him, and sent him over the edge. Which eventually concludes in his murder. 

A guy sitting on end of his bed looking at a gun, shivering/shaking heads in his hands... lifts up his head and blinks. (hoodie, jeans) casual. 

FLASHBACK: close up of eye turns to black screen with three months earlier
goes back to mikey and psychiatrist to talk about his feelings towards John

(back in victims house) Mikey realises he must dispose of a gun, camera pans to a 'suspicious' looking wardrobe.  (FROM HERE YOU DON'T SEE WHO IT IS)
He then runs downstairs frantically, clutching the gun. Mid shot of man running through hallway to kitchen. (hood up, can't see who it is) In the kitchen, over the shoulder shot. Vigourously trying to wipe blood off hands/gun. From inside the house you hear a ring of doorbell/knock on door and hear a voice calling out for John. Pans to a close up of the phone as it rings, pans to mikey as he is running out of kitchen then fades to black.



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