Red Herring

Red Herring-:

A red herring diverts the audience from the truth or the item of significance.

an example of this would be an innocent person in a film that is highly suspectable, through emphasis and descriptive techniques, and this way the attention is drawn away from the guilty person.

The red herring that will be in our opening sequence will be when the news report is being played, this will take away the innocence away from the real threat in the opening scene and therefore put the blame on the other character.