When we started planning our film opening, we based our idea in film opening of “Se7en” and “Scream” (see analysis on the blog). The genre of “Se7en” is thriller and horror as well as “Scream”. Therefore, our film opening has clear mixture of both.
We have used variety of shots; starting from extreme close ups to smooth high angle panning shots of the city of Manchester, from 23rd floor of the Hilton Hotel. We have not shown “baddy’s” face through out the film opening (except one of the final shot) in order to hide the identity; keep him anonymous. As it would be for audiences to find out later in the film. Just like in “Se7en” where in opening all the audience can see are hands/fingers; we have shown legs/feet many times.
Our ECU’s were mainly showing feet/shoes when walking; to reinforce that there are trouble coming as well as to highlight that Andrew’s character is followed.
When we were editing we have used few jump cuts to make Andrew’s character looking like he is escaping, but in the same time he is still followed.
Our sound is mixture of sound track Hard Scary hip-hop beat (rap) – Instrumental; diagetic sound of the city an 4 o’clock in the afternoon and footsteps in the background; also when editing we improved the sound of the train, so it was louder and clearer, and complied smoothly with our non-diagetic sound.
After we decided on the genre of our film opening, we started to think about the mise en scene. We decided to dress Andrew in white shirt with blue bag and some gold accents in his outfit. This was made to show Andrew’s character as innocent victim and to suggest him being from well of background. Just like character in opening of the “Scream” where a female character is also dressed in light/pale colours and she is also innocent victim. Therefore, Andrew’s character was highly contrasting to “baddy’s” character, who was dressed al most fully in black and cloths were more casual. Our location also was used to highlight the differences between our two characters.
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