Research into 3 films similar to opening sequence

My group and I researched into films that are similar to our opening sequence. The three films we came across were
1. Scream
2. The Ring
3.Crank

These films use the different styles and techniques that we would use in our opening sequence as well has the story lines being similar to that of ours where in Scream and The Ring, a young female character is home alone and venerable and the journeys they take of their death within the first five minutes. In Crank however, the gender is not exposed and the death of this person is not done in the opening sequence.


Scream
The opening sequencer of scream is very similar to the opening sequence of our thriller. In the film scream there is the use of which is simply removing the title sequence and beginning straight in the action. We chose to do this specific technique because we believe that it makes a film more interesting and appealing to watch as well as enhancing tension to the film in the early stages making it more exciting. The opening begins with a telephone ringing, which immediate allows the audience to know this is the most important aspect of the scene and what the film could be associated with. Our opening sequence highlights this aspect as well, as our film is about women who get threatened down the phone when she deletes chain mail. The film itself, it very similar to ours where the female is threatened down the phone by a mystery caller and eventually sent to her death. Scream allowed us to think of possible ways to start our opening sequence in order to create tension. The character they use is a venerable young blonde woman, and although we are using a young female ours is in her teens as oppose to her early twenties.



The Ring

Below is a table that shows the comparisons between 'The Ring' opening sequence and our opening sequence 'You Shouldn't Have Done That' 
                             

Crank
The opening sequence to Crank is another possibility that we had towards our opening sequence as the story line is very similar, it is situated in someones home and we are unaware of the gender, unlike the other films where the scene opens on a young girl home alone. The scene starts with the sound of a faint telephone ring which like ours allows the audience to suspect that someone is calling this person, however the audience does not know why. The use of wide shot in the opening sequence allows the audience to see where the scene is taking place but because the scene is shot in dark colours including mostly black, the bright blue light from the TV stands out as the most important object on the screen and that is where the audiences eyes are diverted to. Like in The Ring the TV plays a significant part as there is a CD with bold writing celotaped to it and immediately the audience knows this persons life is in danger. This movie uses CD as the bait to their death whereas we use a telephone call to usher our female character to their death by using a death threat.