Tom's ideas for thriller opening

The first idea is the idea of torture, to make this idea work brilliantly you need to locate the room in a quiet dark and damp place to give the sense of real loneliness, the room will have to contain nothing but a chair and the person. I got my idea from the saw films which almost always the opening starts with someone alone in a dark room. We could use panning shots to emphasize just how fragile the person is inside this room. we can then follow this up by someone coming into the room and then the camera can go down to the floor from a position which would be of the original  characters eyes. This would lead the audience to think that the person has been attacked or killed and then all can be revealed later in the film,  this is used in many opening sequences and is very affective and very common, but since are character isn't dead this will make our piece unique, this twist could be that the persons view that you see go to the floor would be the person who walked into the room. This would lead to a mistaken identity and mess with the viewers mind throughout the opening turning it to a psychological thriller.


Idea number two, this idea is to use a montage in the opening to quickly show the important parts in the persons life which may have something to do with the murder, all the pictures will either be with his girlfriend or family or him doing something important like taking over a business etc. The photos will have editing on it like circles around him in a group of people and writing but you wont have time to read the writing before the picture changes. The pictures will get quicker and quicker and will change and slowly fade until a picture of him dead comes up with a loud noise and this title of the film come up and that will be the opening of the sequence.

My third idea is to have an animated opening where the names come up on playing cards, this would be if we used the idea of a gambling/crime thriller, the cards would come onto screen and there will be some colours in the background but nothing too fancy. This would just be a basic opening and will give the viewer a clear idea that the film is going to be about gambling and if the use of bullets ripping through the cards will indicate crime.