Thriller Influence and Ideas

For our thriller opening we have many different influences. We decided to mainly focus on modern, english made films when looking for influences. A specific director we are looking at it Noel Clarke. Noel Clarke is an actor, director and writer from England who has made films such as: Kidulthood and 4321. The reason we have had such an interest in his work is because he focuses on specific the gang culture in England which is what we would like to focus our thriller opening scene around. The video below is showing the opening scene from a film by Noel Clarke called Adulthood. We chose this opening scene as an example because we think that it represents the sort of scene that we want to be showing in our opening scene of a thriller.
The main part of this video that we are focusing on is from 1 minute 20 secs to 1 minute 45 secs. Even though this is only a small section, the party scene is quite busy, flashy, loud and seems to be a good atmosphere.This is what one half of our opening scene is going to consist of in contrast to the murder aspect which we are also including in it.