Story Board

This page is the story board to the a few of the key things which will make it a Thriller opening sequence. There will be sound over what the characters are doing, such as, music, foot prints and also heart beats, this will build suspense and mystery to the audience.

Product Schedule

This is the production schedule of when I will be filming my opening sequence. This is all part of my planing to my opening sequence.

Inspiration For Thriller Opening Sequence

There are many Thrillers which gave us inspiration are four films as their opening sequences have had an impact on out opening sequence.

The examples of the films that have given us inspiration for out Thriller are:
-Seven
-Falling Down
-Limitless
-Bourne Identity


Sevens opening sequences shows case files of a person and the brown file which will be shown in ours will be filed with slimier documents like that file had.

Falling Down opening sequence hasn't got any dialog, the suspense is built by the music and sound which we want to include in out opening sequence.

Limitless hasn't got much dialog in it, it has very little dialog, but we have come to the conclusion that the little to no dialog builds the suspense better to the Thriller.

Bourne Identity is also another Thriller which hasn't got any dialog with it. The music and sound as this creates more suspense and gets the audiences attention.

Walk Through/Script of Opening Sequence

For most of the opening sequence it will be in silence there will not be much dialog as the music and sound will build the suspense.

-0.0-0.10
Coming out of house walking to the car
-0.10-0.15
Getting in the car
-0.15-0.20
settled in car - pull away (match on action)
-0.20-0.25
Turns off the car
-0.25-0.30
Arrives at work walks in to the office
-0.30-0.35
Walks up the stairs or gets into lift
-0.35-0.40
Thinks someone has followed him in to the office (looks behind) (shoulder shot)
-0.40-0.45
Walks through main office to his
-0.45-0.50
Goes into his office match on action from walking in to his own office
-0.50-0.55
Puts brief case on desk opens it
-0.55-1.05
Gets documents out of it and places them on desk
-1.05-1.15
Walks out of office and boils kettle
-1.15-1.17
close up of kettle
-1.17-1.27
walks back into office to wait for kettle to boil
-1.27-1.32
sweating is really stressed (extreme close up on sweat)
-1.32-1.47
Brown file gets pushed under the door
-1.47-1.51
Rushes to pick it up
-1.51-2.02
looks through the folder and drops it on the floor in shock

Linear and Non-linear Animations

Health and Safety for Location

The locations health and safety is mainly fire safety but there are also other things to make the office safe enough for filming.
 The emergency numbers for everyone would be:

Ellie: 999 - Police, Ambulance and Fire (emergency services)
Actors: 999 - Police, Ambulance and Fire (emergency Services)

There will be fire exits around the building which will be easy for everyone to access. There will be an alarm which will alert the emergency services which will then send out the right services.

This is am image of the the fire exit and the rules you should follow when exciting the building, to make safer and quicker for the people to exit.

The red box is for setting the alarms off before the smoke has alarmed the drill. The assembly point is where we would have to get to so the emergency services know who's left in the building. There are also escape stairs for us to get out of which unlocks when the alarm is triggered.

There are also other health and safety in the building, such as,  in the kitchen, there will be a sign where the kettle is as it's boiling water, therefore being a hazard. There will also be a first-aid kit in each room incase of a cut.


The main thing that could occur is most probably a fire, as this could occur at anytime. There are many health and safety areas at a work place. The main emergency number would be the emergency services, as they will be the people most likely to be able to help. 

Target Audience Interviews and Research

These are the types of questions I will be asking audience of Thrillers.

How old are you?
Do you enjoy watching Thrillers?
What do you like about Thrillers?
What Thrillers have you seen?
How often do you watch Thrillers?

I'm going to ask people within the target audience about Thrillers and also other people out of that target audience so that the target audience isn't necessarily 18-29, there can be other age range and gender who may enjoy Thriller, but the most popular target audience is men between the ages 18-29. I have also asked people out side the target audience to make my research more strong. Through this research I have noticed that there are many girls enjoy watching thriller between the ages of 16-18 years old.


This is a video of the target audience and also other people outside the target audience.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QbtpfY7qUQ

This is the video I created from people within the target audience and also outside the target audience, this has made me aware that other people outside the target audience also enjoy watching Thrillers.

This is a graph of the target audience ratings on the website got the thriller audience for a number of different Thrillers, such as, Silence of the Lambs, Se7en and Taken. This graph shows that's there are more men then women.