Synopsis of Final Idea

So after much deliberation here is our final idea!

Programme Title: 'Taken'

Client: AS Media Studies

The thriller opening will begin with a car pulling into a drive. The scene outside will be grey and dark to reflect a solum mood. A man will step out from the car although we will not be able to see his face, leaving him unidentified and mysterious which will create tension. 

The scene switches to one of a teenage girl doing her homework in the living room. We realise the mysterious character is her father and he needs to leave to run some errands. However the girl needs something for a school project and shouts out to him as he is about to leave, however she is too late and must search the house herself to find what she needs.

She goes upstairs where it is dark and a sense of tension is created as we do not know what could be in the dark. 

The girl begins to rummage through her father's things trying to find what she needs for her school project. As she searches, fast-paced, intense music plays to create suspense. She knocks a box off of a shelf whilst searching and photos are scattered all over the floor. She picks them up and there is a close-up of her hand on the photos, revealing stalker-like pictures taken of various girls. The photos are accompanied by names and addresses. 

The girl is in a panic after finding these disturbing photos amongst her father's things and goes to a computer to find out more about the girls in the photos. The scene cuts just as she presses enter so we are left wondering what she has found out.

We decided to incorporate the photographs from our first idea and the use of panic and searching through her father's things from our second idea to produce this final result. I feel that it will be effective as it uses the key features of a thriller and is different from things we have seen before. We discarded ideas like the chase through the woods and the murder video on the TV as we felt these were too cliche and copied other thrillers/horrors.

Brad