Planning the Thriller Film

We have spent our last lesson as a group planning and discussing different ideas which we think we could use in our introductory 2 minutes of a Thriller film. As a group we came up with a vairety of different ideas ranging from mystical thriller to a back track of what happened. There is a photo of our spider diagram where we arranged our ideas, and planned for our opening credits.

Our first idea was an ariel view of a crowd, and then a gradual zoom into a member of the audiences face, from then on there is the rewinded, back to front look where the whole scene will be showing the present rewind into the past, showing clips of doors slamming, walking, a close up or a gun or knife, and then a zoom on the original face, then the dead person.

A second idea was a young boy on his birthday, as he receives an antique present discovers a note in the paper, it tells him where to go and for when, the young boy then travels to the location, and the camera uses different angles to see this. When he finally arrives he discovers a box on the floor, and a man from behind jumps on him.

A suicide, the close up of a body, then the TV flashes on displaying a variety of different news clips and imaged telling of this dead body, and then the remote is picked up and switched off, following the woman as she leaves.

Back shot of a man walking down an alleyway, dark lighting from a street lamp in the distance.


A person who's loved ones and placed become ruins and damaged, he returns to find his life has changed dramatically but cant find a reason why, burnt house and damaged church.

There are a few more ideas but they need to be noted.

Our ideas are not finalised as not all of our group members were present to discuss, we will try and think of a few more ideas, and then choose a final option. We have thought of some good ideas and will decide and blog about our film choice.