As a group, we all worked together to think of different ideas and came up with some individually as well. We started doing this by thinking of what a thriller opening includes and how we would portray this. We came up with two ideas as a whole and decided to go with the second idea as this would be best for us.
Our initial idea was about a teenage girl running through a forest, who obviously seems exhausted and had been there without food or water for a few days. The girl would of be running away from a man, but due to lack of energy, she started hallucinating things from her awful past and would of eventually ended up running from her childhood rather than the man. We wanted the rest of the film to show lots of flash backs from her unpleasant past showing how her life has developed and how she arrived in the woods running for her life away from the unknown man. We decided that we would not be able to pull this idea off and would only make sense if we had a bigger time space to fit the whole storyline into. We also thought that the chase scene may start to become a bit boring and stereotypical for the audience as many other thriller films use this effect.
For our second and concluding idea, the more we discussed it the more we grew on it and kept on thinking of better aspects to add in. We all thought about having a serial killer who had not been caught yet and had been killing different people in different ways. Our opening would be an introduction to the killer and would show their next victim being killed. This is the convention i talked about before where a not so important character is killed off straight away just to show the killer or to set the whole storyline. We then all suggested that the opening would be of the killer however the audience doesn't know this and will be revealed to the audience further on into the opening. We thought that it would be good to make the killer look innocent and to the audience, they will seem like the next victim. We then thought as a group that having a woman as the killer would have been much more of a shock as to the stereotypical male killer in most thriller films. We thought that the killer actually being a woman would be revealed at around half way through our opening, this would be shown by her holding yet another victim hostage. As our idea was starting to fit together nicely we thought that instead of using a lot of dialogue in the opening, we would have a voice over in the style of a radio news reporter This would explain what the killer is like and what they have previously done to their many victims. However whilst this is being explained on the voice over, the audience is shown the killer physically re-enacting the particular events. At the end of our thriller we decided that we would have the victim killed, however this wouldn't necessarily be shown on screen. When we thought about if we were making the rest of the film, we wanted it to be in the sub genre of an action thriller. This is because there would be the killings still taking place and also possibly the police chasing the killer throughout the film.
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