Development Ideas For My Own Opening Of A Thriller Sequence

This Blog post is to include two initial ideas for my opening thriller sequence which I will commence production of later on in the year. These two main initial ideas will be looking at different types of genres for thrillers, for example a crime thriller and a psychological thriller. A crime thriller normally contains someone investigating a crime that has taken place, normally it is a murder. A psychological thriller is a suspenseful movie emphasising the psychology of its characters rather than the plot. 

Initial Idea 1:

My first initial idea is a psychological thriller where a man has just got back to where he is staying (a really nice hotel room), and looks roughed up but he is in a new suit, this is due to something  he has done, which cannot be revealed as that will be the plot therefore the reason that people will want to continue watching (making it a good opening sequence), because they are confused by the abnormality of the main character. In the main characters room he has a few black bin bags filled with clothes (which are dirty, seen by the sight of blood on white shirts having out of the bag), newspaper articles and weapons, these are revealed by the rips in the bag. The sequence will end with him going into the bathroom of the hotel room and he will come out in a brand new, unripped, black tie suit. He will then go over to his news article bag and get out one sheet of paper and put it on his bed, then he goes over to his gun bag and collects a pistol and a larger gun. After he leaves the room and goes to do something that the viewer would have to continue watching to find out but after he leaves there is a close up on the news article that he had put on his bed earlier leaving the audience to want to find out that this man does and why he does it.

Initial Idea 2:
My next idea is based about a crime thriller and it starts off with, what seems to be a house wife as the camera starts off at her feet and goes up her body going to her waist, then panning across to see that she has gloves on her hands, holding a knife, covered in blood. This shows that she is cooking/cutting some sort of bloody meat. She will hear a dog bark pause completely and stare up, looking blank at the camera (this will hopefully put the audience in an ambiguous situation, making them feel uncomfortable). There will be a cut to a shot of dogs salivating and pouncing at a glass door (from outside), looking at something and barking at it inside the house. Then the camera will pan across the room from the dogs back to the woman, who is cooking, and in the transition there will be a bloody arm hanging off the side of an old armchair (like a zombies arm), trying to show it is some sort of dead body, and the object that the dogs were making noise about. The panning of the camera will reach the woman's face, making us stare at in to her eyes, she is still paused. There will be a build up of non-diegetic sound and then it will stop, as it stops the woman will continue cutting the meat.