plan for thriller opening

In today’s lesson our group had to plan an idea for our actual thriller opening. We had talked to each other about how our thriller opening should be also discussing likes and dislikes of certain thriller opening ideas; this was the lesson we had to have everything on paper. We were thinking of ideas like the location, whether the film was going to be in the day or evening, and if the characters were going to be alone, how many character would be on-screen if there would be any dialogue.

 We combined our ideas come up with some decent scenarios. We thought of a scenario, where there would be a normal person walking at night witnessing a murder, combined with a chase scene with the witness and murderer, similar to the policeman flashback thriller we saw. We thought this was a pretty good idea because it had the “instant arousal” factor for the audience, but we were told that it was way too fast and that we could be making an attempt at a whole movie in two minutes instead of just an opening.

We then had a final idea, where there would be a conning. The opening contains a bag handling situation where two bags contain contents that each man want what the other man has. Two men work together to steal the third man's bag. This is how the scene will work. The two men working together will be called number 1 and 2. The third man is the man that gets conned. Number 1 sits in a quite area with the bag waiting. Number 3 sits next to him with a bag. Number 2 sits on the on the opposite side and impatiently waits for the swap. After the swap happens between 1 and 3, number 2 deliberately follows or bumps into Number 3 to confront him.