Thriller Script

This is the script for our thriller, it reads as follows:
Scene one: Killer in the hotel (bathroom scene)

Voice: You don’t have to do this; you do know that don’t you?

It’s not going to change anything.

Killer: Shut up! Just get out. I’m not listening to this again.

Voice: You know I’m right.

Killer: That’s it. I’m going, and you’re not coming with me this time.

*Killer walks out of bathroom

Voice: Do you really think I’m that easy to get rid of?

Oh, c’mon, it’s been years now. Besides, you’d be lonely without me.

*Killer walks out

Scene two: Police investigation room

Detective one: I dunno jack. We’ve been at this case for two months now and we don’t seem to be getting anywhere. We’re missing something, I’m tellin’ you.

Detective two: Look, talk like that’s gonna get us nowhere is it? We need to look more carefully. What is it about these people that makes someone want to kill them? Is there anything we’ve missed, anything that they all have in common?

Detective one: Well, they were all in the same year at school, we’ve established that, and James Greenwood was in their year, Phillip Mason was in the year above.

*Pause

Hang on; Jason Crook was in their year as well. It was his third school in two years. Says here he was removed for unusually disruptive behavior, looks like there were quite a few serious incidents he was involved in.

*Head officer walks through door accompanied by detective three.

H.O: Afternoon, you two. This is Thomas Green, he’s a specialist who’s been assigned to help you on the case. I’ll leave you to it.

Detective three: Right, what’s the story so far gentlemen?

Detective Two: Well, we’ve got a list of suspects that we’ve managed to narrow down to the 6 that are on the board. Three of those went to the same school as all four murder victims and it seems that Jason Crook had a bit of trouble in his school years, it could just be teenage behavior, but it did state that he was unusually disruptive... could be a lead, so we’re gonna check it out.

Detective three: Sounds like a plan.

*Pauses

Would I be able to have a mill over the papers and files? So I can get all the details and what have you.

Detective two: Sure.

Detective three: Thanks

*Walks out the room

Scene three: outside the police station.

Detective two: Not sure what to make of that guy really.

Detective one: He seemed a bit, odd. Anyhow, I don’t like the way they made it feel like we couldn’t handle it

Detective two: No, but I’m welcoming help. He just didn’t seem quite with it. Ah well, maybe he’s just awkward with new people.

Thriller Storyboard

The following pictures and annotations show the plan of our introduction to a thriller.

The opening scene will be of a collection of polaroid photographs scattered over a desk. There will be several cuts between two desks with the same pictures. On one of the desks the photos will have red writing on, and the other blue. The room with the red writing will be the killers room, and the room with the blue writing the police investigation room. The pictures will be those of the victims that have been killed before the film takes place.
The camera will then pan from the police desk up to a board in their room with mugshots of suspects. The camera will then go into a close up on one of the pictures. Unkown to the police officers this will soon be shown to be the killer.

The close up of the mug shot will then fade into a close up of the person in the mugshot standing in their bathroom. The killer will then hear voices in his head, which will be done with a voice over. We will have different camera angles on him for when the killer's talking and when the voices in his head are.

We will then watch the killer walk away from the voices in his head, leave the bathroom and turn out the light, as he goies towards the stairs.


The killer will then walk down the stairs, whilst being talked to by the voices in his head. He'll then walk towards the door and leave, and the shot will quickly fade out to the next scene.

In this scene 2 police detectives are discussing the case. We will have 2 shots as they talk to each other, and close up reaction shots as they exchange dialogue. Reaction shots will show the emotion of the characters in relation to what the other is saying, and so will be good for this scene.

A third detective will then be introduced to the case. He will be a new detective and seem peculiar to the other detectives. The 2 original detectives will then leave the police station after discussing the case with the new detective. They will talk to each other about what they thought of him.

When the police officers are outside the police station, unknown to the police the next victim walks past them. The camera will then track after him, and follow him down an alleyway.

We will then cut to the killer sitting in a coffee shop. If we can get permission to film there, we will use Caffe Nero in town, because there is a chair next to the window which would be in a convenient position for the shot. The victim will walk past the killer drinking his coffee. He will then stand up and follow the victim, and the introduction will be left on a cliffhanger.

Initial Planning of our Thriller

When we were set the task of making the introduction to a thriller, we first decided in our group to discuss which sub-genre of thriller we wanted to produce. I wanted to pursue a mafia/gangster thriller set in the 20's, as it seemed like the type of film which you could get lots of atmosphere and emotion into. However it became apparant that things such as costume and finding somewhere that wasn't obviously filmed in modern day would be too difficult. Other sub-genres we decided against, for reasons such as costume and special effects, were the horror and action thrillers.
In the end we have decided on doing a crime thriller. This allows us to create a 'case' that can absorb the viewer, and use locations available to us. Thinking about locations, we decided there were rooms in school that could be made to look like police rooms, but we didn't have a solid idea that we were definately going to go ahead with, and so can't decide on locations at this point.
Thinking of actors we could get to star in our production, the only people we could think that would be available to film at similar times to us that would be willing to be in are film were our friends. We decided on a few friends who we thought would look more fitting for the part that we could ask to be in it.