Thriller- Planning

My group and I have now come up with a scenario for our thriller and it is very different from the ideas that individual group members have come up with:
       
            Synopsis:  Opening shot begins as a long shot where Sean is seen lying on the floor after falling through a rift in time. He has changed the timeline somehow and is in trouble. Then Gabby appears and helps him up and Sean isn’t too pleased to see her. Gabby is Sean’s guardian Angel/ Mentor she takes him on a walk while walking and talking discovers that a car is seen she knows that this is the time police for Sean. However he is unaware of this. They get to the car and Sean finds out it’s the time police and he turns to Gabby for help and finds she has disappeared. David who has a lot of power as a time officer eventually persuades Sean in. There is a extreme close up of the time in the car hinting the theme of “time” David gives Sean information of paper consisting of people Sean claims not to have seen the people David agrees because Sean hasn’t actually met them yet. Sean asks him has been through time too and David said Sean must pay the penalty of going through time and killing his father. Sean’s penalty is he has to work for the time police. Seeing as he has the ability to go back in time the time police make him work for them. Sean does all his dirty deeds or them but craves ability to go forward in time so while working for time police he searches for power to go forward. He’s searching shall be his downturn in his life as the police sentence Sean anyway despite working for them. They say life for a life. Sean dies and his dad lives because if Sean’s Dad dies he wouldn’t exist.

         My opinion: I personally do not like this as an opening sequence as although it asks a lot of questions, it does not create enough tension as other thrillere such as Memento or War of the Worlds. However i think perhaps when we put it together and actually come to editing the piece; adding soung effects, lighting and maybe music, it actually be rather effective.
         Questions: A main attribute to a succesful thriller is the mysery element. Without this, the opening sequence would fail. Here are the questions that our opening sequence poses so far:

1. Why would someone be lying in the middle of a field?
2. What is the relationship between that man and the girl that approaches him?
3. Where does the man in the car drive the man and the woman too?

Shot list:

1. Long shot- man in field

2. Long shot- man in field with titles

3. Long shot -titles dissapear

4. Close up- seans face

5. Mid shot- gabrielle and sean

6. Mid shot- sean

7. Mid shot- gabrielle

8. Close up- seans face

9. Mid shot- gabrielle and sean

10. Close up- walking feet

11. Mid shot- gabrielle and sean dialogue

12. Long shot- davids car

13. Long shot- sean, gabrielle and car

14. Mid shot- david gets out of car

15. Mid shot- gabrielle and sean

16. Close up- sean turns head

17. Mid shot- sean on his own

18. Mid shot- david talking

19. Extreme close up- the time

20. Mid shot- david in car

21. Mid shot- sean in back seat

22. Mid shot- david turning around

23. Mid shot- sean in back seat

24. Mid shot- david turning around

25. Mid shot- lauren walking across

26. Extreme close up- the time

At the moment, we are at the storyboard stage, and have alreast started to plan and create a shot list so that we actually know what is occuring in each shot. The good thing is that we as a group get a rough idea of what we need to think about and keep in mind, however it can be rather tedious as because we are still in the beggining stages of our planning, we are still changing and developing our ideas, meaning that we have to change and rearange the storyboard.