Ideas for our thriller opening

Idea One.

• Centered around a crime - murder (but the audience don't know that at first)
• Jerky handheld camera movement representing the victim's point of view, so the audience can only see suggestive moments such as the victim's eyes (thriller motif)
• Black & white, with dark red lighting - representing danger + anger

The scene revolves around a murder that takes place however the audience doesn't know about it. The location is unknown to the audience as the camerawork is all close ups and quick cuts, which adds to the suspense of the opening and making it more intriguing to the audience. The characters are anonymous. The shots will switch between the characters and the titles. 

Idea Two.

• Crime Thriller

The opening scene is the murder of the victim in the film, the rest of the film will be finding the murderer. The opening scene will show the victim walking down an alley naturally, with odd camera shots from high and low angles, showing the victim walking, from the point of view of the antagonist. The audience do not actually see the murder but it is suggested as the shot blurs and the pace of the cuts increase, building the suspense.

Idea Three.

There are clips of a regular man on his way to work, dressed formally. We will have multiple clips of both him walking towards the camera and of the camera following him both at a distance and over his shoulder as he is walking, as if it's someone watching him. Then, all of a sudden, the man must freeze and have a rapid series of 360 degree's stills, transitioning into rapid stills of a car accident, speeding up throughout to the cresendo of the music - ending in a white out. The scene then resumes a number of days later in the man's home, where he is seen to be eating breakfast. The man then grabs a nearby newspaper to see an article of an accident involving someone the man knows.