1. Four ideas for psychological thriller openings are presented, focusing on themes of revenge and mental illness. 2. The first idea involves a girl with dissociative identity disorder digging in the woods and flashing back to a mysterious relationship while hints are given about her unstable mental state. 3. The second centers on a bullied girl who stalks and seeks revenge against her two main tormentors by killing one. 4. The third switches the gender roles, showing a woman enacting psychological revenge against a man who cheated on and drove her crazy. 5. The fourth depicts an unknown girl orchestrating the kidnapping and torture of a boy who publicly humiliated his ex-girlfriend, with flashbacks

1. Individual ideas
Idea One
Idea by: Megan Goff
Thrillersub-genre:Ihave chosenthe subgenre of a psychological thrillerasI reallywouldliketo
experimentwiththe ideaof apersonmainlyagirl because Idon’t see manyfilmsthatthe women
are the maincharacters.
Setting:I like the ideaof havingthisto be setin a forestbutalsoin somewherewhere two
characters meet.
Intendedtarget audience:16-25 year olds
Descriptionof what will happen: inmy thrilleropeningIwouldlike tohave the main characterto
have some psychological disorderthatcanbe guessedwithinthe openingwithoutactuallysayingit.I
wantthe openingtobe of a girl digginginthe forestandyoudon’t actuallysee herface.I wantthere
to be flashbacksof the girl where itisin slow motionof hermeetingsomeone andsuggestingthat
theyare ina relationshipwithmomentsflashingbacktothe digging.Idon’twanttoo much to be
givenawaybutstill have some hintsatthat thisgirl isn’t quite rightandthat there issomething
wrong.I wouldideallyportrayhertohave some form of dissociative identitydisorderwhere she
may snapback to realityandhernormal self, rightat the veryendwhere we see whatshe hasbeen
doingand herrealisationof whatshe hasdone.I wouldn’twantto show anythingbuta keyitemof
the personthat she has killedi.e.ashoe ora ring
Idea Two
Idea by: Elena Piciu
Thriller sub-genre: Psycho revenge
Intended target audience: 15-25 year olds
Setting: House
Description of what happens: This would be the story of a girl that is bullied all the time in school
and doesn’thave anyfriendsbutherbiggestfear are two girls that always humiliate her. It starts in
school where inthe mathslessonshe comes in a little later and the whole class stares at her. Then,
whenshe triestogo to her sit,one of the girlsmakeshertripoverand getsthe whole class laughing
at her.The girl justgoesto her sitand keepsquiet for the rest of the lesson. This is followed by the
girl in her room doing her research on both of them and slowly starts stalking them and taking
pictures of where they go and what they do. One night when the two have a sleep over, she gets
intothe house and manages to kill one of them by stabbing her, however the second one escapes.

2. Idea Three
Name:StevenToone
Target Audience:16-21
Sub-Genre:Revenge
Setting:Rural setting(Forest)
Description: I wouldlike tobreakthe cliché of mengettingrevenge onwomen,soinmyfilmIwould
prefera womanto go afterthe man. I would like tostartoff ina rural area because itmakesall the
characters more vulnerableandsecluded,thiswill buildthe suspense.The backstoryisthat the man
cheatedonthe woman withherbestfriendandshe became apsycho andveryobsessive.She wants
to destroyhislife andmake itharderby messingwithhimandmake himgocrazy, whichiswhat he
didto her.
Idea Four:
Idea by: Melania Burlacu
Thriller sub-genre: psychological revenge thriller opening
Intended target audience: Are people aged over 15-25 as they are the most likely to watch
somethinglikethisandshare the openingthroughsocial media.Alsothey are the ones to feel close
to the character as they are more likely to have been cheated on previously.
Setting:It will be basedaroundcentral Londonor somewhere where tall buildingsandemptystreets
are in order to give that sinister view even if it’s in a populated area. This will end up filming in
school for the flashbacks as well as the torture place.
Description of what happens: It’s about a couple that has the girlfriend being insulated by the boy
as he shoutsin the middle of the school that he doesn’t love her anymore and that he had cheated
on herwithsomeone othergirl. The girlfriend is really embarrassed and she is shown as she wants
revenge onhim.Howeverthe openingstartswithanunknowngirl thatwatchesfromfar as we don’t
see her face only the back of her as she is talking on a phone whilst she gives instructions to the
other girls that are following the boy (friends of hers) to get the boy where they want in order for
herto have the revenge.The girlswill complete theirmissionastheywill getthe boyandkidnaphim
ina dark place whilstone willaskfordirectionsandthe otherone hitting him from the back. Before
he starts to became consciouswe have flashbackfromthe girlspointof view as she is remembering
everything that he did to her whilst she is cleaning the torture instruments and the opening ends
with him starting to wake up and sees a person that turns around as he is staring and asking
questions and whilst the audience as well as the character sees the girl we will have an extreme
close up on his facial expression being in shock.