The document outlines ideas for thriller movie openings, including:
1) A man falsely accused of murder being sentenced to death by electric chair.
2) Reopening a case 20 years later from the criminal's point of view.
3) An unusual man in the park covered in blood being followed by an unseen person.
4) A psychopathic serial killer breaks out of prison to kill his president father who neglected him as a child.
2. Outline Ideas
• 1) a man being falsely accused of murder/rape. Walking to chair, legs in chains, in a orange suit/criminal.
• Someone in prison read out his/her accusations
• Sentenced guilty, judge, priest.
• Therefore execution- electric chair.
• 2) a case being re-open after 20 years, and we tell the story from the criminals point of view and
the goings on of that night.
• 3) An extraordinary man is in the park where he is in a standstill whilst the world blurs past time,
the man has an eerie presence about him as the camera closes in on him you scars over his face
with blood all over him, but as time moves on you tell it’s not his blood but the blood of someone
or something, someone is following him he don’t see the person but can sense them like he has
a sixth sense. As the person is in touching distance the man disappears all of a sudden leaving
the follower angry and distressed.
• 4) Psychopathic serial killer breaks out of prison and tries to kill his father who he blames for the
way he is. The father of this serial killer is the president of the United States. When this serial
killer was a boy he was neglected by his father at the age of eleven and was put in a special
home. Ten years later he would be the most dangerous serial killer in America. President tries to
hide background and covers up everything. His son then announces his intentions to kill his
father.
3. Thriller opening examples
The Dark Knight
-Fast pace edits
-First scenes a criminal act
- Naturalistic sounds, minimal talking
Se7en
-Loads of Extreme close ups
-No Dialogue
-Tense Music
Sleepy Hollow
-Close ups, established shots
-Props- Book, detective
- No dialogue
5. Visual themes and style
• Mood
• eerie
• horror
• physiological mind games
• Thriller
• dark
• Dramatic
• Intense
• creepy
• Ominous
6. Location
• Around the park, the dark to make the
audience feel scared and uneasy.
• In someone’s house to make the
contrast between day and night.
• Also in the street in a very crowded
area, to make the protagonist feel that
he/she is being watched.
• In a school to create suspense during
the school day.
7. Location
• Around the park, the dark to make the
audience feel scared and uneasy.
• In someone’s house to make the
contrast between day and night.
• Also in the street in a very crowded
area, to make the protagonist feel that
he/she is being watched.
• In a school to create suspense during
the school day.
