written synopsis for thriller script

Story line

The events in this story is from the perspective of the wife/widow, due to her husbands disappearance/ passing. the story begins with the wife receiving a letter from her husband. she reads the letter in her bedroom which explains how he won't be back home for a couple more days due to his business delays. Letter also explains about their unhappy marriage and how he promises to improve it. she burns the letter with a lighter.

fast forward a week later the detective knocks on the wife's door and tells her that her husband has still left no traces since his disappearance. The wife assumes he is most probably dead, but the detective, who has been long term friends with the husband, says it is unlike him to be gone without any signs. The detective suspects someone is behind the disappearance and ensures he will get to the bottom of this. Shortly after the detectives leave, the wife answers the door to her "secret lover". They discuss leaving London and starting a life together elsewhere. He agrees.

The next day, the detective issue a warrant in their household to find clues. The wife is hesitant but agrees to let them in. The detective finds the ashes of the letter in the bin and collects them.
The wife's mother in law arrives to the house and panics over the disappearance of her son, who represents a sympathetic character.
In the next few days the wife plans to escape her life in London with her "secret lover". She has run away with all the money and is driving away in a car. While she is driving away with her luggage the detective slowly finds out she is the murder of her husband. He quickly drives to her house but she is already gone. Cut to wife driving away and she has flash backs of the crime.

Character Analysis - angles of article


Antagonist - The antagonists of this story is firstly, the wife. throughout the story she represent a sympathetic character but she deceives the people around her. Due to her unhappy marriage, she learns the only way to leave her husband is to plan a murder. The second antagonist that is introduced to the story is her "secret lover" he planed the murder with her but we find he is being deceived by the wife to as she uses him as an escape route, and does not love him.


Protagonist - the detective and his partner are both the protagonist of the story because they try to solve the disappearance of the husband. They discover the wife is the murder but it's too late as she has already run away with her husbands money.


Sympathetic Characters - The husbands mother is a sympathetic character because she is the mother of the husband and worries about his whereabouts. The other sympathetic character is the house maid as she is putting her life in jeopardy by hiding the truth from the detective.


Narrative

Act one:
The opening sequence of the story starts with the wife sitting in a cafe and picks up a phone call. she answers, and says words like "are you sure?" and "i trust you" and ends the call. She travels back home and the house maid gives her a letter from her husband and she opens it in her bedroom. she burns the letter with a lighter and from a mirror reflection and the maid watches her from afar.


Act two:
A couple days later the wife calls the police and explains that her husband has been be  missing he was supposed to arrive the previous night. The detective is a family friend and arrives shortly after the phone call. As the detective has a little understanding about their troubled relationships and knows that the husband has cheated in the pasted, he suspects the husband is cheating again but the wife insists that the detective should find out where he is. A few weeks later there is still no sign of the husband, and he begins an investigation. he thinks its necessary to have a search warrant in the house to find clues. he finds a pile of ashes of the letter the wife burnt and collects them secretly.


Act three:
The wife visit's the police station to find out what more information the detective has discovered. Leaving the station, she intends to go back home, pack her things, and leave London. She leaves her phone by the detective and her secret lover calls and says "stop worrying about it, it's done he's dead now we can live together away from everyone.........hello? are you there?" and the detective hangs up in shock. The detective drives to the wife's house but it's too late, he finds the maid dead on the floor, he later discovers she was killed because she knew too much.

Genre:
One conventions this is a psychological thriller is the enigmas that the story gives such as where is the husband? does the maid know anything? does the wife have any involvement in her husbands disappearance? The sub-genre that we have is psychological, romance and crime. The psychological part is the mental state of the wife and her secret lover they are both as crazy as each other. The romantic sub-genre is going to be shown between the wife and secret lover but it's going to clearly show that she does not care for him like he cares for her.

Style:
The opening sequence is going to be filled with close up's of her hands reading a letter. There will be close ups of the different words of the letter.  There is going to be a pan shot of the cafe. Editing skills we will have is a voice over of the wife reading the letter.  Cuts of different area's around London and some of the words on the letter. We will music that creates tension and suspense in the opening sequence and the music is the key thing that will create enigma. Use a raining sound effect to create dark mood. The setting of cafe the lighting in the cafe is lowkey lighting and in natural lighting.

Brief interpretation:
quote 1: "it should be shot in the UK" our filming location is shot in London so we are meeting the requirments of the scenerio.
quote 2: "aimed towards a target audience of 16 to 24 year olds" we have met this requirment as our story line is mature enough for a 16 year old but has life issues that are within that age range such as marriage issues and personal problems that involve with the law.
quote 3: "all content produced must be original and produced by you" we have created a psychological thriller from our own ideas and originally from our own creativity.