My title sequence is a crime thriller, so we looked at many different thrillers and decided what worked well for them and therefore what could work well for us.
Sixth Sense
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This opening scene is 11 minutes long, and we only wanted ours to be 2 minutes. However, the opening scene is very good and we took some ideas from it. The eerie music set up the movie, making it clear that it was going to be a thriller and bad things were going to happen. Secondly, it started in a murder (or a shooting if you haven't seen the end.) This immediately gripped me when I first watched it and made me want to carry on watching in. Our opening scene also starts with a murder, which from watching Sixth Sense I feel was a good idea, as it starts the story immediately and grips the audience.
Panic Room
The opening scene to panic room is very subtle and doesn't give away too much about the story which I thought was a good way to open your scene as you don't want it to be obvious and cliche. However it had all the good elements to an opening scene, it filmed a view of a dark, run down city with some eerie music in the background to add to the darkness of it all. The camera movement was very slow which I felt kept me engrossed in it the whole time, something I thought about when making my opening scene, making sure it wasn't too rushed.
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