Re-Thinking Thriller ideas

After pitching our idea to Matt, although there were many aspects he liked the pitch was overall given a red light and we could not proceed to further plan the thriller. Upon this we decided to scrap the idea completely and begin from scratch because we wanted to let go of our idea to create something truely thrilling. Although the idea itself became completely different it only took 1 lesson to find certain elements from the original and keep it and create a new idea.

We decided that we particularly liked and enjoyed the concept of a man going about his business that is completely hidden from his family which is shown through the phone call. We wanted to keep this idea but change what her's hiding. Instead of him secretly being a killer and targeting women, we decided that he should be an assasin/sniper meaning he is a dangerous man which contrasts the family man the audience will see on the phone. We liked this because there was something rather thrilling to us about the concept of a man being so casual to his family and not having a care about his brutality which we believed would be very captivating.

We chose for him to be a sniper because that gives the impression of a highly skilled individual, and watching him go from the sweet family guy to the asassin. To become a sniper takes alot of training and being secretive giving a suggestion that he has been hiding this for a long time.

My group and i took the phone call concept and family concept from our originally constructed idea but fixed it with the slight cliche of guns being thrilling to create one of Kristians orginal ideas. We pitched this to Matt and immediately got a thumbs up on the idea, however he warned us to be cautious of when we write the script as the casual-ness may lead to a slight implication of comedy as appose to thriller.