Film Opening Ideas

Within my group, we have come up with a number of different film opening ideas. The ideas are for a range of different film genres. 

We cam up with ideas for two Thriller films, and comedy film and a horror film.

Comedy:

A Man is in an interview for a job. The interviewer asks the man if he has a criminal record.  The man awkwardly explains the one criminal record he has. Whilst he does this a flashback of what happened is shown.

We then see the man riding a scooter that he had stolen from a child in the park. The child he stole the scooter from, gets his friends together and they all chase after the man. The man chucks a briefcase and then steals a helmet from another child he passes, as well as a drink from another. The other children he stole from then join the crowd that is already chasing his. All throughout the scene the male character will say funny one line phrases. After this the flashback ends and we see the man at his interview again but the interviewer does not seam impressed with what he has just been told about the man.

Possible Names For This Film Opening: Big Mistake, Never Again, Life.

Thriller:

The Beginning shows busy roads with fast forwarded moving cars. Also shows fast forwarded people walking. This is where the titles are shown. We hear a mans voice speaking over the fast motion cars. The titles then end and we see the man who was talking walk into a café. We see him get himself a drink, and sit down as if he was waiting for someone. He then gets a phone call. The phone call is from a mysterious voice that the man does not know. We then her a woman scream and the mysterious voice says “I told you I would get you”. We then figure that the woman has been kidnapped and that she is the man in the café’s wife. Whilst the mysterious voice speaks to the man, in the background we hear the woman petrified and screaming for help.

Possible Names For This Film Opening: In Business, Captured, What Goes Around, Comes Around.

Horror:

Begins with some men chasing a woman through a forest. The men are wearing old style acting masks and black suits, whilst firing guns. The whole beginning is a mixture of the chase scene through the woods and the film titles being shown.

Possible Names For This Film Opening: Curtain Call, Suit Walker, Show Time.

Thriller:

This Opening is set in the evening. We see two people frantically packing, chucking all there things into a suitcase.

Hear them say “have to hurry up” to each other. They run downstairs and one puts the suitcases into the car. The other goes to the kitchen and turns the gas oven on, we then notice that there is someone asleep in the armchair with sleeping pills next to them. The person in the kitchen walks out the door and looks through the window to show that she might regret what is about to happen. The other character returns and pulls the character looking through the window away. One of them gets in the car and starts it, while the other is at the front door and lights a match. They then thrown the match through the letterbox and run to the car. The house explodes and the car with the two people drive away.

Possible Names For This Film Opening: Letterbox, Match, Gone.