Thriller Idea

For my Thriller idea, I came up with the idea of a Schizophrenic person, or a person under the influence of a substance, dreaming about themselves hiding themselves in a victims house, then committing a murder whilst they are vulnerable. The dream would end abruptly on the murderer killing the victim, and they would then wake up in a cold sweat. Upon realising it was a dream, the would be murderer realises they have traces of someone else blood on them and their clothes. The murderer then begins to wonder whether it was just a dream, and goes to the scene where the victim was killed in the dream, and discovers it was indeed real, and that their split personality/ intoxicated system was the reason they couldn’t recall the murder taking place.

shot 1

The camera starts facing a closed, dark door. The camera then begins to move towards the door and as this happens the door begins to open. The camera enters the room to find a person sleeping in a messy bed, with clothes strewn all over the floor. Camera establishes all this via a pan of the room. Towards end of pan camera begins to slowly zoom in towards the person.

shot 2


As the camera focus’ on the persons identity, we begin to realise it is a girl. The scene fades to white and a series of quick flashing shots representing a troubled dream. The flashes then stop and turn into a long dream shot that the audience can actually make sense of.
Camera shot will be a Mid-shot for this scene .

shot 3


The dream consists of varying shots, showing a scene of a murder from the murderers point of view. The shots show the killer accessing the victims property, and hiding themselves within the household. Then camera flashes to the murder but doesn’t actually show the stabbing because the flashing will be intense to represent the adrenalin flowing through the killer. Flashing then stops to show victim has died.
Distortion on the shot to show the warped mind of the killer

shot 4


When the flashing stops from the dream, the camera cuts immediately to the killer waking up in a cold sweat, which will be illuminated by moonlight. Killer looks worried and scared at the dream but seems to be relieved to find it was only a dream.
Camera then slowly zooms out to reveal the killers hands covered with blood, killer looks down and is startled by this.
Camera then pans down to the floor showing her clothes showing traces of blood on as well.

shot 5


Killer rushes to get dressed, Mid-shot.
Killer rushes out of the door

shot 6


Camera is below eye level at an angle, showing hallway.
Killer runs towards the stairs and runs down them

shot 7

long shot, Camera cuts to outside the house, with full house in view of the shot, front door opens and the killer runs out, down the driveway and past the camera.

shot 8


The Killer then runs to the victims house, they find the back door unlocked, and enter the house. All this is done using straight cuts and mid shots to show details of the killers expression and the Mise-en-Scene.

shot 9

entering the victims home, the killer discovers a pool of blood with signs of a struggle showing on the work surfaces/ floor. This is shot from the side to ensure the 180 degree rule isn’t broken.
Killer then slumps on the ground against the wall breaking down with head in hands.