Film Ideas and Plans for an Opening Sequence

Psychological Thriller Film Ideas

To come up with a concept for our opening sequence we had to decide what the rest of our film will be about in order to make an accurate opening sequence which makes sense and is clear to what might happen in the rest of the narrative. We can up with various ideas using a mind map. The mind map helps because all our ideas were organised and we could then either chose any idea, or merge different aspects together.

Collectively we came up with five different ideas, to which we could film our opening sequence on. With all our concepts we plan to make a suspenseful yet dramatic at the same time.

1) One our first ideas was based on a university dropout with depression who kills someone but it unaware he had killed someone, until he starts to have flash backs of a murder, after he had killed a family member.

A synopsis for this idea would have been as follows:

Taking place at the prestigious Ealing University  a student is found dead with no leading suspects the police continue their investigation to find out who took the like of an innocent and hard working student. The story also follows a university drop out whose life has been turned upside down after leaving school as he could not keep up with the work load. Later another body is found and a link is established between the previous murder, as they were killed in the same way. The second body is the brother of the the university student who dropped out. A further link is made between the drop out the first body. Is he the killer or is he being framed?

2) Our second idea was a bit dark which would be perfect for a psychological thriller.

A loving mother sends her son off to university and the thought of not seeing her boy everyday. Each day goes by and enjoying university would be consider an amazing time, but with a mother constantly. The mother slowly stars to mentally break down, she starts babysitting a boy from across the road caring for him ad her own. During the Christmas break her son returns to see his mother lose her mind not knowing what to do she is instituted because he is babysitting a boy, a boy who isn't there.

3) A poor woman has a miscarriage of her daughter and years go by unable to have a child when she does her little boy is her whole life. W young her enters this woman's life and she takes her in. Unaware of this girls shady past she treats her like a daughter. The daughter plans to kill the son. Why? The mother does not know. One morning after escaping her life she wakes to see herself lying in hospital. She had gone through a traumatic labour and has been sleeping for two days in a coma.

4) A male widower does not want to move on after the death of his wife, he suppresses his memories. Continuing to lead a normal life he creates a perfect image that his wife is still alive. He meets a girl and an affair springs, his wife becomes suspicious and angry and attacks her husband. He is later found in the mental ward leaving the investigators to investigate what truly happened. They are lead into mind boggling situations. A dark and mind boggling thriller. 

5) A perfect husband, perfect wife and home. What could go wrong? The husbands wife dies and he loses himself in drink and despair until he meets a new girl and tries to move on. His wife returns and threatens to kill him and his new girlfriend. He tries to assuming revenge on his wife which leads to drama and tension between the two. She tries to also kill him, but is interrupted when he wakes up to see it was a dream and his wife and him were happy. Or can looks be deceiving?

Chosen Thriller and Plans for the Opening Sequence

As a group we decided to go with idea number 5. We chose this film idea overall because we think we can make a really dramatic opening sequence with tension making it engaging. 

For the opening sequence we plan on starting with a photo montage and it leads to a woman killing her husband, but as he screams and dies he immediately wakes up to notice it was a dream and his wife is alive and happy.