Thriller Ideas

For media studies the class had to come up with some thriller title sequence ideas, I personally don't watch many thrillers which caused my ideas to not come across as scary as most in the class.

Idea #1:

Plot:

Guy that left school at 15 because he would prefer to skate and go out with his friends, has a part time job as a waiter as he saves up for his first car.

One day working he feels a strong pain in his chest and finds it hard to breath, ends up going to the hospital and finding out that he has a desise and the only way that he would be able to live more then 2 months would be with a new lung which would cost a very high amount that he can't afford (Possibly something like £15k)

He knows that he and his parents can't afford it and he doesn't know anyone that is donating their lungs.

His parents always wanted him to go to boarding school as they thought that it would "get back on track with life" they also told him how "you make the best friends in boarding school"

So he comes up with the insane idea of using the £3k he saved up for boarding school, just to gain enough of someone's confidence to come with him to "friends party" (without anyone knowing) which turns out to be a sketchy doctor that would kill his friend and transfer the lung to him.

Title Sequence (Ideas):

Establishing Shot Of His Room,

POV:Wakes up sweating, checks his phone and sees he only  has 2 weeks left..

Follow shot as he walks to the cafeteria analysing every possible victim

As the cook serves the egg on his place he asks, you ok?

Black Screen

Fade In " 6 Weeks Before..."

Close up of his alarm:

Long shot of alarm: Alarm goes of and his hand hits the top of it

He Sits up and then his mind races forwards to where he was working at could barely breath, then skips to the doctor telling him the bad news

Idea #2:

Plot:

Guy/Girl goes to boarding school to take a levels and his parents pressuered him into getting academic classes (Further Maths, History, Business &  English) when she really wants to take artistic classes (Photography, Media Studies, Drama & Art)

He ends up changing his classes to the artys ones without his parents knowing, ends up having to lie more and more about how he's classes are going,

⋅he got beat in the past trying to explain to his parents that he wants to do something more artistic and wasn't into academic classes

⋅has constant nightmares of his parents visiting his school and finding out and sending him to the army

⋅Parents are both really well known for either scientific discoverys or mathematical

⋅because of his constant loss of sleep he starts failling in his classes

Title sequence (Ideas):

Estabalosinhg shot: of parents fighting and screaming at him at the dinner table

Follow shot: he runs to his room and locks the door

Establishing shot: of him on his bed

Close up: of his face into his pillow

Close up of the door handle: They are hitting it hard after three hard hits it blasts open and he wakes up in a car arriving at his new boarding school

parents are debating if he should take History or economics, he stays silent

Pan shot: of him getting out of the car and walking into the boarding house carelessly

Fade to Black

(The following idea wasn't thought out as much as I found it less interesting then the first two ideas.)

Idea #3:

Something to do with a middle aged man finding out his girlfriend left him many years ago because she was pregnant but didn't want to raise the baby with him.

Title sequence(Ideas):

POV:Man is driving up to the school.

Establishing Shot Of the school parking:he parks the car and stares at a window

Close up: of his face against the window looking up

Camera looks at one particular window from inside the car.

After several seconds of waitting he opens a bag in the back of the car and takes out a knife then hides it in his pocket.

Follow shot: of him walking in and past the receptionist as she asks "hello, where are you going?" (he takes no notice and walks up the stairs) "visiting hours are only  on weekends"

As he gets close to the room he takes the knife out of his pocket and puts it up his sleeve.


Idea #4:

 I haven't developed this idea very much, but it is basically a man that has been kidnapped and is trying to escape from a van. His hands are tied and theres a bag cros the van with a knife in it.
It would be a sequence of a man trying to pull the bag closer and closer to himself without the driver realizing.