My thriller ideas...

For my thriller sequence I have come up with 2 ideas...

1. 'Hide and Seek'

The basic idea of this story is of kidnap and dissapearing. It opens with a mother and toddler playing hide and seek in a local park, the mother is filming the child on a handheld camcorder so we do not see her face, and everything is from her point of view. It seems harmless enough and everything is normal. The child runs off around an object/corner, and when the mum follows them around it, she finds that the child has vanished. The mum starts to call the childs name and starts to run, possibly dropping the camera down by her side or onto the floor, so that we can only hear her panicked screams. The screen then blacks out to the title of the film.

There is an alternative ending opportunity to this which I came up with. The child runs round the corner and when the mother turns the child is missing. She doesn't panick but thinks her child has turned the next corner. She stands still and calls for the child, beginning to panic slightly. Mostly out of view of the camera, the child appears from nowhere and jumps on the mother growling and clawing at her as if possessed. We hear the mother's screams of horror and the camera drop to the ground. The screen backs out and the title appears.

      2.   'Night Out'

This story relies on the use of close ups and match cuts. It opens with CU shots of a girl getting ready for a night out in her bedroom. She is doing normal things like applying makeup, pulling up tights, putting on shoes and putting things in her bag. These shots are interjected with shots of the same girl wiping blood off her face, picking her phone up off the pavement and taking off her shoes. She has ended up in a side alley and we don't know how or why. I want the sound to have an underlying track of heavy breathing and a heartbeat on the shots in the alley, with it still all filmed in CUs. These shots cut to black and the title.