Wednesday 19 November 2014

Thriller Ideas


 1. Plot: An office worker hates his job, his fiancé has been killed in a car accident the previous month with a baby on the way. He now struggles with alcoholism and financial difficulties. He struggles through each day until he just can’t take the stress any longer. A stranger stops him from killing himself and tells him that the death of his fiancé was no accident. The film follows him as he seeks vengeance against the killers of his fiancé and he gradually unravels the truth behind the murder. who is he? and what has he become?

Opening Sequence: In the opening sequence we see him live a day in his depressing life, starting from waking up in his dump of an apartment, then to the workplace and to conclude, him stepping of his office building (but before he steps off there’s a blackout otherwise it would not make sense in the story)




2. Plot: A sadistic killer is stalking the local woodland village. Praying on the vulnerable, abducting them then terrorising them and brainwashing them until they kill for hi. He becomes a “Fagin” as his loving murderous slaves do his bidding and slaughter the innocent people of the village. The film climaxes with all of the murderers donning masks and setting fire to the village. The camera zooms out as the disturbing yet cinematic sight of burning houses amongst the forrest comes into view.


Opening Sequence: In the opening sequence we see the serial killer dragging a victim through the moonlit forrest by his feet, (i have a very detailed technical idea for this) the scene cuts to a warehouse where the killer has strung his victim up like pig meat. Instead of slaughtering the victim he throws him into a room full of the devoted murdering townsfolk. The sequence ends with a group of the murderers putting on their masks and walking towards a loud teenage house party.





3. Plot: A low level criminal is the ring leader of his gang, they terrorise the city, mugging people, fighting other gangs and holding up convenience stores. But the fun’s over. The ring leader gets arrested and spends his prison days trying to stay alive as rival gang inmates hunt him. Several failed break out attempts and beatings later he is unleashed on the streets once again, twice as tough and out to get the men that made his life a misery.





Opening Sequence: In the opening sequence we see a montage of the ring leader and his gang committing multiple crimes e.g. smashing up shops, stealing cars, fighting other gangs and robbing shops. The late teens run from the police but the ring leader runs down a dead end, “STOP, POLICE!” is heard and there’s a cut to the ring leader being profiled in prison holding his identification card in front of the height scale as flash photographs are being taken.










4. plot: A group of teenagers are playing hide and seek in a forrest, their game is unexpectedly interrupted by an un natural presence. The film includes high octane hunt for the missing children and an investigation to discover what was in that forrest with them that night. This is presented through a series of interviews and different perspectives, a murder mystery kind of thing with multiple suspects..but who did it?


Opening Sequence:
In the opening sequence we see the group of teens playing in the woods at night, they are slightly drunk and thought it would be fun to come out at night. One of the teens finds himself alone he hears noises amongst the bushes, the tone changes as we assume he’s in danger, however it turns out to be his friend. But then we see through the eyes of the mysterious presence, watching the group. “Who’s that?” - black out.

5. Plot: man who's had enough of his office job becomes sick and tired of slaving away everyday. There’s clearly some form of psychological trauma there, he can’t take it anymore and a colleague tips him over the edge. Out of spontaneous rage he kills him in the cold back alleys, to then regret it, and collapse into a breakdown. He then realises that actually he has a sort of lust for killing. However as his psychological problems and quality of life improve, he starts to realise what a monster he’s become, and throws himself of the roof of his office block.

Opening sequence:  Man gets out of bed and prepares himself for the day. we see how poor his living conditions are. As he prepares himself we see likenesses to murder (similar to dexter). 

OR: he walks to work he sees sirens and police cars drive past. A policeman in front of him points his gun at him and tells him to stop, but he’s talking to a man over his shoulder, our protagonist falls to his knees and puts his hands behind his head, shaking.

OR: Shots from inside the office he works at, how monotonous his everyday work is, how the people surrounding him are nasty and vindictive, and then perhaps one guy in particular stands out as a “bully” character, the scene moves to a bus stop maybe and the other guy pushes the protagonist around for a few seconds before he cant take it anymore and slams him down a flight of stairs (but we don't see that, we just see the shove)

Originally my group chose my second idea to pursue as the opening sequence due to it's visual elements, for example the p.o.v dragging through a wood.

MY GROUP'S IDEAS.

Idea A- 

 1) A film about a young girl and her love for her father. He has been taken and she goes to find him. Throughout her search we see flashbacks of her life and how it is a well off family but her mother was killed when she was young and how her father has trained her up to be an incredible fighter/ assassin. She finds her father however is too late he has been killed, she gets her revenge however it is left on a cliff hanger about a mission to find her baby sister.

 2) It starts with showing a room full of maps, newspaper clippings, letters and pictures from CCTV and a picture of a man. We then see a fairly young girl age ten, well groomed looking through this information. We then see her fill up a bag with survival kit (matches, money, food , water and maps.) She takes a couple of the documents which are pinned to the walls down places them in her bag. Finally grabs a gun and heads out of the room.


Idea B- Stolen 

 1) This is a film about how dolls are alive, and not murderers but are always there lurking in the shadows. These dolls control the happenings of the people they surround. It is about a family who’s daughter starts to slowly change and how when bad things happen to her those who do the bad things are punished. It ends with the family burning the doll.

 2) We see a girl playing with a porcelain doll. She gets ready for bed and puts the doll away, in a shut cupboard. Then we see her go to sleep and wake up the next morning with this doll staring right into her face. This whole sequence is shot from the dolls point of view though. We still can see the doll through the mirror at the beginning.

Idea C- 

 1) A thrilling film on how a woman gets mixed up in an undercover operation in the American military to find an undercover spy fighting in the war.

 2) Typical British rainy day, we see a dog walker walking her dog on a pebbly beach. Whilst the dog is playing around in the sand it comes back with a bottle with a message in it. The message says: 278, Collogosmia, Afghanistan. It also includes a plane ticket to Afghanistan.

Idea D- 

 1)This film is about the abuse both physically and mentally a woman commits on her husband. It shows it from a neighbours point of view, we hear it and see the repercussions (but looking sympathetically to her, she has bruises) but not the actual fighting. We therefore think it’s the man that is the abuser. It shows her plan to get him sent to jail for the supposed abuse and then consequently steal all his money.


 2) The opening sequence is in the neighbours house where we hear banging and crashing, we then hear shouting. It ends on the neighbour ringing the door bell but getting no answer.



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