Narrative Idea Generation

In this lesson, we were given post it notes, with a short synopsis of the storyline of thriller films, and we were asked to come up with our own thriller ideas, based on a more modern concept, integrating some aspect of modern technology into the storyline.

My idea was based on the storyline from the film KNOW1NG, but instead, the main character receives a phone call, with no one on the other end from a unknown and seemingly incorrect phone number with too many numbers. However, a day after he receives the phone call, a disaster occurs, a bus crash. Soon after, he receives another phone call, from a different number, but still incorrect. Again, a day later, another disaster occurs. Deeming this to be far from coincidence he starts viewing the strange phone numbers again, noticing that the first phone number began with the number of the bus. He then spends an entire night trying to decipher the first numbers, comparing them to the newspaper articles detailing the events. In the morning, after staying up all night obsessing with the numbers, he receives yet another phone call. This time, he realises he can take action and rushes to both decipher the possible answers to the code and to investigate how the coded details relate to real life and the potential disaster in coming.