Films

Panic room (2002)
Distributor- Columbia
Producer- ColumbiaDirector- David Fincher Writer- David Koepp
Stars- Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart and Forest WhitakerGenre- ThrillerStoryline- Recently divorced Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah have bought a new home in New York. On their tour around the mansion, they come across the panic room. A room so secure, that no one can get in. When three burglars break in, Meg makes a move to the panic room. But all her troubles don't stop there. The criminals know where she is, and what they require the most in the house is in that very room. 

• Two female characters introduced in the first two minutes of the film.
• Quite eery slow music that then speeds up to a quite tense jumpy type of music (strings I think)
•  This opening doesn't really tell me what is going to happen in this film, but it does set the atmosphere with the music so it could be a good opening but I personally dislike it.

North By Northwest (1959)Director- Alfred Hitchcock
Production Company-  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Writer- Ernest Lehman
Stars- Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and Jason MasonGenre- Adventure, Romance, Mystery
Storyline- Middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent by a gang of spies. He gets involved in a series of misadventures and is pursued across the States by both the spies and the government whilst being helped by a beautiful blonde.

•  Set in New York. The height of the buildings emphasised by camera angles either above or below. The height in buildings indicates power. 
• Time period set= not too long ago but it's not a recent film, 80's perhaps?..
• Titles tilted in angles of buildings by camera angle. He credits small production teams such as the technical people, which in more modern films they do not tend to do. 

Seven (se7en) (1995)Director- David Fincher.
Production company-Cecchi Gori Pictures, Newline Cinema
Writer-Andrew Kevin Walker
Stars- Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey
Genre- Crime, Drama, Mystery.
Storyline- A film about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" sermonizes to Detectives Sommerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured Sommerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while green Detective Mills scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer...

• The opening made you think of a murder mystery 
• No actors in opening two minutes of this film, this adds to the mystery for me.
• Dark screen
• Set in New York
• creepy/ eery music
• Main characters name comes on before titles of the production and distributors.. 
• Titles early on
   I really like this opening. I would like to achieve one along these lines, without actors or very little appearance from actors. Or possibly a voice over..