Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Our Whole Film Synopsis

A man called James walks down a street, on his normal route from A to B. He turns into an alley way and a masked person puts a bag over his head from behind and drags him to the floor. James wakes up in a dark abandoned building.

After wandering around he goes into a room and comes face to face with his kidnapper, which is his brother who was thought to be dead. James then questions him about how he is alive and what happened to happened to him. But before he gets an answer an alarm can be heard. James is back in his home, lying down on his settee. He hits the alarm on it's top, sits himself up and walks to the bathroom.

He washes his face in the sink. He looks up into the mirror. His brother is behind him, covered in blood. James turns round and his brother is gone, he doesn't know if he is going mad or if his brother is really back.

James has this nightmare every night for the next couple of days and starts to think back to the time he left his brother to die because he was jealous of him. James fully confronts his brother in one of his nightmares and they end up fighting violently, his brother draws a knife and stabs James in the chest. As this happens, James wakes up on his settee with blood pouring from his chest, he sees his brother watching as he dies; finally achieving his revenge.

We are trying to keep the plot as uncomplicated as possible and get enough enigmas in to keep the viewer hooked. We are trying not to do too much in our opening few minuets, however we want the audience to quickly understand who the characters are, where film is the setting and establish what type of plot the film follows.


2 comments:

  1. This is more like a synopsis of the opening acts of a film - you need to summarise briefly where it would go from here. Would it be a revenge thriller where the brother is trying to get back at the brother who "survived"? Would the story piece together what really happened and resolve their relationship one way or another?

    You could also add a feedback heading at the end and offer my feedback about not overcomplicating the opening and needing not to try and do too much in the first 2 minutes! State that you will bear this in mind when developing your ideas further. It explains why your final storyboard will differ slightly from this idea.

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  2. You need to place this earlier in your blog now and comment briefly on how you will open your thriller and this will lead nicely into your more detailed synopsis of your opening sequence.

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