Thriller Opening Ideas (Morgan)

 Thriller Opening Ideas 

Inspirational Thrillers

Training Day
Limitless
Attack The Block
Reservoir Dogs
Catch Me If You Can

Location

As we are filming a thriller i think it would be the most practical decision to go down the route of crime and illegal activity thus creating a stigma to a character or set of characters we are basing our piece of filming on. It would make sense to incorperate locations of which live near or grow up in, there are areas that i believe would realistically coincide with my plot.
Typical locations of gangs, cartels and organised crime in london is what im thinking we can utilise when filming our thriller opening, urban locations spring are stereotypical settings.


London Tower Block/Flats (above)                                 London Estate(Right)

Plot

I feel that we can easily create a realistic work of art based upon a drug cartel but focus souly on particular characters in our narrative, similar to that of the television series Top Boy where the lives of several characters from a place called summerhouse in Hackney are represented. It could follow a young man of adolescent age walking through his neighbourhood, giving the audience a good idea of his life and all the responsibilities he is juggling all at once, family life, drugs, school, environment including the trappings of a life of crime and pressures that he faces.

We could start our film in a non-linear fashion, similarly to the way in which the film Limitless (2011)begins. It starts with the main character Bradley Cooper narrating how he ended up in his predicament, moments form his death.

The adaptions we could make are simply tweaking the plot and the change of location/setting. Instead of the top floor of a luxury uptown apartment we could make our film take place in more plausible locations such as West London estates, flats and neighbourhoods.

Characters

I feel that we should base our film around one protagonist, the opening could either show him starting out in his life of crime, establishing his life and story or if we pursue the non-linear idea than it could be him contemplating on how he reached his ultimate demise, which i think would be affective as i think narration as a tool in our production will help to easily tell a story and establish all that the audience needs to know, i also believe that an opening of a thriller starting right at the deep end will instantly put the audience on edge, immerse them in the thick of the action and have them hooked from the start.