SCRIPT FOR THRILLER OPENING SEQUENCE

Characters: 3 bad guys, spy, spies’ wife and daughter.

Main bad guy = Saeed

Spy = Simon

Saeed:  Read it.

Simon: what is this?

Saeed:  this is no time for games. Read it or your family will die. 

Simon reacts by spitting at the terrorist

Saeed: Hits the spy and phones his colleague, says in foreign language “Get them ready”

Saeed: My family and all my friends are dead because of your people and now a member of your family will die because you have not obeyed my orders.  (Holds up camera phone to Simon) Choose which one will die now. Your wife or your child?

Simon: (crying) please…don’t do this.

Saeed: (interrupts his crying) do what I say!

Simon: (Silent)

Saeed: (foreign language “Kill the wife”)

Simon: (looks at the camera and sees wife getting shot, starts screaming and crying) Noooo!

Saeed: (Puts the paper in front of spy) Read it or your daughter will be next!

Simon: (Stares at the paper and sobs)

Screen fades into black and title appears

THE END

second group meeting

Thriller Idea

Crime Thriller - Another idea from first group meeting

Crime Thriller for Blog

Zizek - First Group Meeting

Casino Royale’ opening sequence

Interview on Target Audience

To get an idea of the sort of things that our target audience would like in a Thriller film, we conducted a couple of interviews at our school, which conveniently were the correct age group.  This was an attempt to make our film as popular as possible.  


Interview 1

1. What is your favourite film genre? Why?
Psychological thriller; I like being kept on the edge of my seat and having to think about the film I am watching. 
2. What is your favourite film? Why?
Shutter Island; because the script was interesting with great actors within the film. I enjoyed that suspense and the confusion of whether Leonardo Dicaprio's character was really insane or not. 
3. Given the choice would you rather watch a thriller or a chick flick? Why? 
Definitely a thriller; I prefer the fast pace of thrillers rather than a comedy type film that ends up with nothing for you to go away thinking about. 
4. How often do you watch thrillers? 
I always choose thrillers in any situation so I would say I watch a thriller at least twice a week, (as I am in boarding school.)

Interview 2

1. What is your favourite film genre? Why?
Horror; I like being scared when watching a film making your heart beat quicken and making you wince as the suspense builds. 
2. What is your favourite film? Why?
Saw 2; there is a lot of suspense with lots of quick movements from the camera man which keeps me on edge. I love this film with the realistic gore scenes and the brilliant set. 
3. Given the choice would you rather watch a thriller or a chick flick? Why? 
Thriller, they always have better story line. 
4. How often do you watch thrillers? 
I would say at least three times a month, I way prefer new thrillers rather then old school ones. 

Horror and Thriller were the two most popular film genres chosen and therefore, we have decided to incorporate these two genres, using the suspense and fast camera movements similar to the horror genre. Also we would like to make the audience to be left thinking about the film, having to work out parts for themselves, which may encourage people to re-watch the film boosting popularity.

opening sequence of thriller idea

The movie begins with a young girl about 8 in her bedroom playing with her toys and singing. The room would be white and neat, suggesting innocence, which would give off a false impression of the girl to the audience. The girl is sitting in her room having a dinner party with her dolls when the camera starts to zoom out slowly. As the camera zooms out you soon see blood on the white, clean floor and the girl’s parents lying there dead. At this point, tense, jumpy music has been brought in once you see the parents while the young girl is still having her dinner party ignoring them and still singing. This would change the atmosphere completely and the view of the girl: the opening title of the movie ‘…’ would then appear with a sound of the young girl laughing in the background. However, I could also just have the young girl singing throughout the whole of the sequence without any other sound which might make seeing the parents even more shocking for the audience. After this the image would fade into darkness and the opening sequence would end.

Preferably it would be nice to have the girl with dark brown/black hair. However, that might be too much of an obvious choice to the audience so I could have her looking completely different. I would include mid shots and close ups of the girl sitting at the table and also some close ups of the scary looking dolls. When the camera zooms out to show the parents, I would also have it from a birds-eye point of view, looking down on them lying on the floor.