1. Film Opening – Initial ideas
Genre - Crime thriller – a heist/robbery
Someone (probably a nerdy/geeky man) who’s been creating new
exclusive softwarehe’s created on his laptop that allows people to be
tracked wherever they go in the world
I thought I’d setit out with a shot of this guy making a deal to hand over
the memory stick, with the softwareon, to a dodgy man in return for
cash. But he realises he’s left it at home.
I’d like to then havea shotof him rushing back home fromthis place
(walking, or cycling) to retrieve the laptop
However, meanwhilehis travel back, his houseis being robbed so I’m
going to make it so that there will be an establishing shot of his house
and then two guys breaking in
Then it will flick back to him still travelling back home in a rush
Then the two guys trashing the place in search of the memory stick –
here I will include lots of shots of rummaging through drawers and store
cupboards etc.
I then want them to find it and flee fromthe housequickly
I might even have it so that the one holding the memory stick is shot by
their partner in crime so they don’thave to sharethe reward money for
the robbery
Then I want the man to return to his trashed home and find that the
laptop is missing – he knows his life is now on the line if he doesn’tget
the laptop back and give it to the dodgy man he was meeting
I’vegotthis idea that maybe the guy who he’s selling the softwareto,
tells him he has 30 minutes to go back home and fetch the software, or
he’ll be killed – so I could include shots of a stopwatch counting down
the minutes, and then it beeps when he realises it’s been taken
2. Some of the shots in my opening may look a bit like this: