First thoughts and ideas of my own production,

Recently i have been doing some research on already -made film openings which have given me some ideas and how i could use intertextuality in my own production from looking at other films and film openings. I have noticed that each thriller has its own way of making us know that it is a thriller through mise en scene, setting, editing and sound.
My first thoughts of our own production are to have a specific font that will embrace on the theme that we are trying to represent. Colours of the font may verify to show confusion, we may used reds to represent blood, editing the way the words appear and effects such as cross dissolves to create a tense and suspensive mood. On the Credits there could be slice affects to create the impression that the words could be cut with a knife and words and can be presented backwards or have a swirl effect. I would like the characters of the film to be the main focus in out production as this will allow the audience to relate to them and also give a preview of the setting that they are located in (catching the audiences attention). The sounds could be low (preferably the use of brass instruments but played hard and ruff).
I find it beneficial by looking other existing film openings and confirming that we include the sort of elements they have into our own production. But whilst we do this we may also find our way of making it unique rather that what they've already seen.