Concept of Film and Plot of Opening Sequence

Okay, so I have been brainstorming an idea for a plot for the last couple of days, and here is my final choice.

A busy businessman begins to get a string of emails that forecast future events (usually bad ones) and now he needs to find out why him and how to stop these events before they happen.

Now that was just the general plot and conflict of the entire film.  For my film opening, I have detailed the introduction plot so I can begin a storyboard of events.

Introduction:
A businessman is on the way to work, and he is listening to talk radio in the morning.  They are commenting on a large crash in the stock market, almost as bad as the great depression.  However, the businessman looks happy, because he got a tip to pull his assets from the market before the crash.  Flashback to his computer shows the audience that he has been getting anonymous emails about things that he should do to benefit him, such as pulling out his assets before the crash.  Cut to him at work, he goes to read the newest anonymous email of the day, however, it is something terrible.  It reads "12 people die in a violent terrorist attack on Easter Sunday."  The businessman disregards the email, thinking of it a hoax, and gets back to work.  Two days pass and the businessman is on his way to work again, he listens to the radio and hears about the Easter Sunday tragedy.  The businessman is terrified.  As soon as he gets to his workplace, he checks his email once again.  The new anonymous email says, "Delta flight 1843 from Salt Lake City to Boston crashes into the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, all 145 are presumed dead."  He stares at his screen in disbelief.  He goes outside for a smoke break to try and alleviate his emotions.

Again, I have not named the businessman, given him a workplace, or anything of those sorts, because they are not important to the plot, I will add those later.  However, I made sure to add in key elements into my plot.  First, I juxtaposed the businessman with the feat of saving lives.  Second, I made sure this is a character-driven plot, the audience will get to see the human emotions that come along with his predicament.  Most importantly though, I made sure that this is a believable plot.  This might actually be true, it is not so outlandish that it causes people to feel like the plot is forced upon the film.

Sources:
Screenwriting Strategies: How to Write Original Content. (n.d.). Retrieved March 9, 2018, from https://www.universalclass.com/articles/writing/screenwriting-strategies-writing-original-content.htm