Brainstorming Thriller Opening Sequence Ideas

Words/ Ideas 

• Hit men
• Mobsters
• Gangsters
• Private Detective
• Mentally Unstable characters
• Highly Skilled thief's 
• Lossing Control.

Ideas 

1. 

     The titles / credits are hand written flickering on a projector zooming out slowly showing an 'over the shoulder shot' of a dark figure sitting in a chair watching a old black and white film (at this point the character is unknown). Once at the point of this (image below)

Theres a scream with a close up of a figure which is followed with a slamming of a door. (created with fast jump shots). The scene then changes to an alleyway 

Image taken from 'google images'

Where detectives are dark figure not showing there faces or any indication to who they are with blood on there hands with a close up of there hands jumping from each characters hands scrubbing there hands washing the blood off. This opening sequence is showing the convention of 'A protagonist who is systematically dis-empowered and drawn into a complex web of intrigue by the antagonist.' (Taken from the long road media thriller blog)

Idea 2.

Photographs - collection of seemingly random photographs

1. panning/close ups over photographs

2. still shot over fathers hands putting photos in an album/box

Story: mentally unstable daughter (who takes pictures of everything) commits suicide. Story of father trying to find out why by devoting all his time towards finding answers, finds it was murder because of the photographs she took and remembering vital information piecing the facts together finding that she was framed as suicide due to her condition.

Characters


Characters that are involved within the opening sequence would be the :-
.Father
.Teenage daughter (the dead one).

Characters that appear late in the thriller would be the :-
.Father
.Teenage Daughter
.Mother
.Sister