'Pay it forward' - research into other opening sequences

Whilst trying to come up with the idea for our film and how we were going to film it, our media teacher set us a research task to watch the opening sequences of some thrillers. As a group me,cerys,natasha and lauren watched the opening sequence of 'pay it forward' starring kevin spacey,helen hunt and haley joel osment. This film was directed by Mimi Leder. In the opening sequence there is a scene with a hostage victim and there is a use of blue lighting. Me and my group decided that we thought this looked very effective, this then gave us the idea to use red lighting in our production. We thought that by doing this the film would look more effective and thrilling. Other thrillers have also participated to some of the ideas in our production and have helped us to make some very successful decisions.