Thriller Ideas

I was placed in a group where by we collaborated and shared ideas for our thriller opening sequence shoot. I had now researched a sufficient amount on thriller and horror and watched many other opening sequences which helped to give me ideas of my own.

Idea one

My first idea was possibly to show the kidnap of a young, vulnerable teenage girl. The sequence develops later as she tries to escape from the small room she is kept captive.

Idea two

I had also really liked the idea of using a psychological thriller opening sequence. For example, when I saw the opening sequence to Karl Cooper's 'Se7en' I really appealed to the dark nature that came across. So I thought that perhaps it would be interesting to have the main character portrayed as having a psychological disorder, like the one in 'Se7en'.

I considered the main character possibly suffering from the disorder anorexia nervosa, and the opening sequence showing the girl wanting to kill herself. But we came to the conclusion that this would be difficult to show as we would need special effects to make the actor look slimmer than they really were.

Idea three

We additionally had another idea for a psychological thriller. Using a similar scheme to that of 'Se7en', we would concentrate of having the leading character as the one with a mental disorder. The shots would show someone cutting out various newspaper articles with pictures of victimized teenage girls and then blu-tacking them up onto a wall. Furthermore the mysterious character would then begin to put on a cross over the pictures of the victims. Viewers would understand that the person doing this is clearly the murderer, only later to find out the murderer is in fact a female and not stereotypically male.