Idea for Opening Sequence of Thriller - 'Miners'

I based my idea around the mining accident which happened a few months ago now in Chile. I thought the sense of entrapment was a scary thought and the sense of the unknown is also a fear many people share, this is why I would film the opening scene on top of the land in the shanty town which was constructed over the collapsed mine named ‘camp hope’ in real life.

                The first shot would be of a young boy, filmed in a tracking over the shoulder shot, he is putting a battered teddy bear and a letter to his ‘papa’ into a black bin liner type bag, as he does this he is waling through crowds of people, the audience can notice there tattered clothes even from the low height of the boys eyesight. He squeezes passed bodies with his bag in hand, he can see the debris on the floor symbolising a hot climate and we can notice people’s dusty sandals. Finally he comes to a clearing with a large black pipe coming out of the ground, as he gets closer to this pipe the camera rises over head using a crane shot and into a birds eye view looking down on the boy and down the pitch black pipe line. As the boy drops his bag, the camera suddenly drops down the pipe, following it and into blackness. The title ‘Miners’ would then be shown and the opening sequence is finished.

                I have noticed some problems with this idea which might hold it back from actually being my teams thriller. We would have to find a willing parent who would let there 7 or 8 year old boy skip school for the day and children are always harder to work with as they are not as focused. Another problem would be the deserted landscape of a country with a hot climate which I was interested in having. Although this would make the sequence more realistic, I don’t believe there is anyway we could get this effect from the English countryside in winter time, or in the studio. I think the shanty houses and camps would also be difficult to create on the school budget.