My Group's Film Opening Ideas

When we had to come up with ideas for the opening of our film, we knew we wanted our genre of film to be a thriller. Immediately we started to look at thrillers such as, 'Taken', 'Memento', ' The Butterfly Effect' and '21' (genre: crime) amongst others. From the film "Taken" is where we got our inspiration for the plot of our film in the end. Initially, my group and I came up with the idea a prostitute is walking along a street and we see gangs and suspicious people that adds to the whole mystery/crime genre and she gets taken. There would then be a shot of a police briefing of the prostitute's profile, and the next shot would be a flashback of the prostitute being taken, though with a few more extra shots than before. Titles would go up with thriller/suspense music playing in the background.

In order to show that the girl walking along the street is a prostitute she would be dressed in black leather knee high boots, short skirt, ripped tights, cheap fur looking coat. A film which mirrors how we would dress the prostitute would be "Pretty Woman". In addition to this, the lady would also by holding her arm out to passing cars and trying to look into them as they stop by the road.

We then after thinking of one idea we could go along with, thought of another so we at least have a couple of options to choose from. The second idea which we favoured more was the following...

Starts with a family in a park, the dad is filming his child and the rest of the family, and then when he has turned the camera to the Mum their daughter goes missing. The screen goes black and appear the words "10 years later…" Screen dissolves to black and then we should see the girl is being kept in a cellar, bruised. New information has come to light and the family’s missing daughter file has been opened up again.   This idea closely resembles the idea of "Taken" - a daughter who goes missing and the parents do not give up hope that they will be reunited with their child once more.