Thriller opening film timings

Film	Average shot length in seconds	Number of different shots	Titles
Taxi Driver dir. Martin Scorsese 1976	4-20	9	Blood red on a black background.
Nikita dir. Luc Besson 1990	5	20	Blood red on a black background
Leon dir. Luc Besson 1994	2-14	28	White on a black background.
Momento dir. Christopher Nolan 2000	1-2	17	Blue against one long opening shot.
London To Brighton dir. Paul Andrew Williams    2006	2-3	31	White on a black background.
Red Road dir. Andrea Arnold 2006	1-10	32	Blue and white on a black background

 

From this It appears that generally thriller openings have a large number of shots that change every few seconds and also a large number of shots.  The opening titles all have greatly contrasting colours to show the title.  Depending on the the degree of violence or sinicism I may choose to use red titles for my thriller opening.  I shall try and replecate a similar number of shots within my thriller opening.