We had many ideas as a group for our thriller opening before we reached our finale choice, one of the ideas was to have a very fast paced sequence with lots of short cuts and reckless, speedy music. We thought this would be an effective opening as it would immediately help build suspense and jump straight into the films action.
The opening shots were going to cut between two sets of people and their story lines, the first was going to be two girls running and the camera following them as they ran through streets of a busy city, jumping across buildings and rail lines and through the backs of shops and alleys. The camera would then cut to four masked men wrecking a house as they search for something and interrogating neighbors for information.
We decided that getting the shots of the girls running through the city would be very hard to do, as we would have to keep asking people to leave the filming area which would be very difficult in a city and we do not have the necessary equipment to film the girls running and so would be left with very jumpy shots. We also decided that the best thrillers had very spooky openings which left the audience guessing and having this in the opening sequence would give the plot away. 
We thought having four masked men in our opening would be intriguing and help create the tense atmosphere for our opening. However we found that filming four masked men would be very hard task, as we would have to find a time where four available actors could come and film and who would do the job unpaid. After doing some thorough research we still couldn't find enough actors so we decided that this opening wouldn't be feasible.
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