A Start Towards Our Final Idea

Survey on Opening Sequence Idea

I did a survey and got my older friends and family to answer it, who are 18 years old and over as this is out target audience. I found this information really useful as i know what the audience want to see. This will make the opening sequence be the best of its ability.

From this i can tell that the audience would watch this but not if it was too scary or intense so this will be taken into account.

From this i can tell that majority of people who did my survey think that a forest is a good setting for my opening sequence.

From the survey, i can tell that we should have a teenage girl as it makes more effect on the audience.

I can infer that we could use fonts, and filters that are red and black.

From this i can see that many people like action and psychological thrillers which is what the final idea is

What makes a good thriller?

I can see from these comments that to make a thriller it needs to be scary, gripping, enigma, fast pace,  needs to make the audience alert and be unexpected.

From this survey, i can see what my audience will enjoy and hopefully all these answers will impact on the final opening title sequence. This has given me good ideas into developing an opening sequence with an attractive girl who will appeal to the demographics of 15-24 males. In addition, we will work on incorporating a scare factor to appeal to our target audience.

My Final Thriller idea

This new idea was inspired by this story in the news.

I think this new idea decided by my group and I will be very gripping and scary and fit perfectly in with the genre of thriller.

Moving on with my Idea

I want to discard of my ideas because i have found a better, more thrilling idea of a stalker scene. I don't like the ebola idea as it is in the news a lot. I don't think the kidnapping idea is good because young children are hard to use. Lastly the idea about online is good but without the paedofile.

I propose to do a scene set in a forest. A girl will be isolated in the open woodland area. There will be someone else in the forrest which we do not actually see the identity of to make it scarier. I will have the main person being followed in all black. This would be an action thriller.

Thriller Idea

News Articles For Thriller Openings

A news article 

This news article could make an interesting thriller narrative as the idea of the man who is pedophile and two younger girls. I like the idea of it being cyber and online using social media websites like twitter and Facebook. I think it could make an interesting opening sequence to a thriller as it is a very shocking story.

Another news article

This news article can make a fascinating thriller because the Ebola outbreak itself if a very interesting topic. It is also quite scary to think that it is lurking around and can get anyone at anytime by being in contact with someone who is a carrier. I like the idea of using Ebola as it is very commonly known and could one day turn into a pandemic.


In the news over in the past there have been many kidnapping stories.

I think a story like this could make a good thriller as it is one of the most scariest things to hear about in the news. The fact that these hostages feel bad for their kidnappers and create a surprisingly unbreakable bond. I find that these stories are all so different and could make an interesting intro to a thriller.

Research into the roles of different characters within thrillers

Thrillers usually show good vs evil added with suspense. Normally the identity of the antagonist in known whilst the protagonist will be known later. A typical thriller will be shown from the protagonists point of view which allows the audience to become more involved in the events themselves and therefore closer to the characters as they see how they interact with others in different situations. Furthermore, there will also be a few short clips from the villains point of view allowing the audience to see how the antagonist acts while by themselves or how they used to act through a flashback which allows the audience to gain information on why they have become the evil person. There are often lots of action scenes between characters which keep the audience guessing what will happen next and how the characters interact with each other. The audience never get a sense of the full plot which allows the film to retain its mystery and suspense until nearer the end. Usually at the end of a film, the narrative is revealed and the audience understand why the characters have acted they way they have.

In the opening sequence this means that nothing can be revealed but has to be compact with suspense and mystery. The antagonist who is the evil person should be identified in the opening sequence.