section 3: Brainstorm of ideas for your film

Ideas for our thriller opening sequence,

1) A man is in a room and he is tied to a chair. He looks around the room to see if he can see anything or anybody but nobody is there. The camera then spins around to show a sillohette of a man standing behing the man who is tied up. The man behind him is breathing heavily and the man tied up is sweating and very nervous. Then it cuts to quick flashbacks of what has already happened like the film Seven.

2) A teenaged troubled girl becomes very obsessed with her ex-boyfriend. There is a shot of a wall covered in pictures of him when they were together and pictures she had taken from spying on him. There is also scribbled out writing of plans and what she is going to do next, The teenaged girl becomes crazy and starts to murder every person who becomes close to him because of jealousy. Even her own best friend.

3) The film begins on a beach in the night time with two henchmen dragging a very large box out of the sea which contains a dead body and millions of pounds. They open up the box and gather all of the money and throw the body and the box back into the sea. They leave the beach like nothing as ever happened but somebody witness's what they just commited.

4)There is a schizophrenic man who has been in a mental insitution for years and years with many plans ahead of him. He manges to escape the home and becomes unaware of his actions in the real word and he begins to murder innocent people thinking they have hurt him in his life before he went into the mental insitute

5) A man is frightened and is hiding in the shadows and is breathing fast and heavily. The camera then switches to two men looking for him. They find him and start to rung after him. The other man trips and the two men catch up to him. One of the two men stabs the other man and he falls to the ground. The two men run off leaving the man to die. It ends with a close up of the stabbed man to show he is still alive,

6)The opening starts with a close up of a mans hands playing the piano, A man is asleep in his bed and hears the music being played. He wakes up and the music then becomes silent. He starts to creep down the stairs as the music starts to buld up and get louder. He see's the man and asks who he is with no reply he taps him on the shoulder. The man turns around and it is himself playing the piano

Synopsis

The film begins in the middle of the night. The main character is woken by the sound of a piano playing, so he goes downstairs to investigate. Bathed in moonlight, a mysterious man is sat playing the Grand Piano in the living room (or a different room, this hasn't really been established yet), and as the man turns, the light reveals it is the main character himself! Almost immediatly after this, the main character wakes up in his bed, believing it to be some crazy dream. As the story goes on, more about the main character is learnt, he's a fairly famous musician with major mental health issues that he keeps in check with hefty doses of prescription drugs. As the 'dreams' begin to reoccur, large amounts of the drugs the main character depends on to keep himself in check begin to go missing. Then, the murderous alter-ego forms. As the main character doesn't take his medicine, the alter-ego appears more often, killing purely for fun, even though the main character seems unaware of this. Enter the genius detective, whose only objective is to find the killer behind all the murders. The main characters dreams become more like flashbacks of the terrible deeds he has commited, and suddenly it all becomes clear, it is him killing all these people! Around about the same time, the detective figures this out aswell. The final scene is personal confrontation, the main character wants to hand himself in, but the alter-ego won't allow it. Cue suicide, with the police appearing a minute too late. It's a kind of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde/ Fight Club story.