Planning our Thriller opening

We are now at the stage where we begin to plan our final thriller opening. In my group, we have been brainstorming different ideas that we feel would make a successful opening. It is a hard process, as you want to stay away from the obvious. During our planning session we avoided suggesting knives, showers, children on swings and so on..

We went onto watching different thrillers and openings to get different ideas. We also researched different thrillers and read about them. Some film names inspired us, for example 'Identity'... something about the name caught our attention and we read about it, and we brainstormed different aspects that can contribute to create a story. Several film names and different stories inspired us throughout the research, it was a lot harder than we expected. 

We watched the opening to thrillers and we came across 'Marathon Man'. This opening includes cross cutting and we really liked the idea of it as it instantly       makes the audience ask questions.
I personally prefer being lead on that way when I watch a film, its brilliant when films make you ask questions and it really pulls you in.

At the end of the lesson, my group left with some inspiration from 'Marathon Man'. We want to work on the idea of cross cutting between two different characters undergoing two completely contrasting activities.