Ryan + James - ideas for thriller/introduction explanation

Our thriller opening is going to be based around a chess board. this is relevant, as the opening monologue running over the top is comparing chess to life. The main character is the one playing chess, and he eventually loses, as he speaks of how the wrong move can end the game, the game being life. We cut this up with scenes of him running, and end it with a gun shot, and his hand on the floor as his opponent gets checkmate.

He speaks about sacrificing pieces, and how sometimes sacrificing too many for whatever reasons can end the game as well. He continues to speak about tactics and plans. The main point is that we began at the end, and how he sacrifices himself, but could win in the end.

It starts with a black screen, playing the sounds of a police scanner, in reference to the fact that the main character is some form of gangster. The reason he dies is that he's drawing the assassin away from his previous target his brother who has information on a raid being planned against their 'family' (Mafia)

Over the black screen, we will have jumpy white titles, and the occasional cut into the running scenes. during the chess scene, we see the main characters hand, with a distinctive ring, and when he dies, we get a close up of his hand again, so the audience knows that it's him that is dying.

James & Ryan (Collaboration)