Thriller Planning - The Story

After discussion, we decided we wanted the opening to portray both a murderer, and those trying to catch him, juxtaposing good and bad. We decided that, for the police part, we should introduce a new character, a new detective on the case. That way, as he is being familiarised with the story, so then is the audience.

The Plot
In the introduction, we see two scattered collections of photographs, one of which is the killer's, and one of which is the detective's.There have been a series of muders, and all of the victims were in the same year at school. Working on the case for two months, our detectives have narrowed down the suspects to eight, which are displayed, with annotations, on a board. They notice that one of the suspects is in the same year as them. As they are discussing this, a new character, the new cop on the case, is introduced. The two detectives tell the new guy the story of the case.
Meanwhile, our killer is introduced, washing his hands, representing his compulsion for hygiene. Hearing voices in his head, we realise that he is schizophrenic. The voice is telling him not to kill again, but he ignores it, and walks out the door.
We then see our killer waiting in a coffee shop, stirring his coffee and taking a sip. He turns around to see a man walking down the alley adjacent to the coffee shop. We see a quick flashback of the man, as one of the photographs at the beginning, and then our killer stands up and walks after him, and then it fades to black.

Storyboard

 This is our opening shot, a pan across two different sets of photographs. One set is on a light coloured table, whilst the other is on a dark one. Although not evident from this picture, we want to have one set have blue annotations on, whilst the others have red annotations. This is meant to show the difference between the killer and the detectives.

The shot then tilts up from the desk, revealing board with eight pictures of suspects on. One of the pictures is zoomed in on, the face of the killer, and then a dissolve transition is made.

The shot dissolves to the face of our killer, looking into the mirror, getting ready to kill again. From this we show the killer arguing with the voice inside his head.

When he replies to these voices, we see a different shot, further implying his schizophrenia

We see the killer exit the bathroom and walk down the stairs.

The voice inside the killer's head argues with him as he goes to leave, and stops when the killer slams the door shut.

We then cut to our two detectives at a loss about where the case is leading them. Here, they notice that one of the suspects, our killer, was in the same year at school as all of the victims, and was "unusually disruptive".

As they are talking, the head inspector walks in and introduces a third detective to the case.

We will then have the two officers telling the new one what has happened so far.

We then cut to a shot of our two police officers talking outside the police station, expressing their doubts about the new detective.

As they are talking, we see one of the victims walk past them. The camera tracks him down an alley.

We cut to the killer drinking his coffee inside a coffee shop. We see the victim walk past the window, and our killer get up and follows him.

We hope to use Café Nero for this, because the large windows would make it easier to track the victim, and have contacted them about it. However, we are awaiting reply.