We looked at the following thriller openings to get ideas about how they are done to create an effect that puts an emotion or story out to the audience about the film, we also looked to see how the credits are shown at the beginning of a film and how they can be made to look effective and relate to the film:
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| These stills were taken from the opening of Bullitt. I quite liked this thriller, in the way that the music was quite effective as it played through the opening creating a mysterious setting but at the same time hinting to the viewer that it was a crime that was taking place as it almost sounds quite sneaky, almost representing the people that were sneaking around the building, although as it got the end of the opening, other noises, such as gun shots and breaking glass were played over the background sound, I don't think this worked as well as having no diegetic sound as it was before, I think at this point the background music should have been stopped, to create a more dramatic effect when the gun was shot and the glass broken. I like the way that the opening was played as the credits were coming up, the way that a story was being told to introduce the film to the viewer. I also like the way that the credits were bold and white so that they stand out from the images behind them and I also like the way that they came onto the screen from all different directions with different effects, how some moved across while others stayed, and how some more important names such as the main actor and the films name were made more prominent by being much larger and staying on the screen longer than others. I would like to use the idea of the titles moving on and off the shot in different ways for my thriller opening. |
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVkUPjclSow These are stills from the opening of Vantage Point. I like how this opening has been made, with the images being in sections, not filling the whole screen. I also like the way that there is a small red dot, reading over the writing as it shows, giving the audience the idea that this film is about an assassination. The gold and black colours that have been used work well to create tension and a mysterious theme, the music in the background also works well to do this. Images shown in the sections are shots scanning an area which works well to hint to the audience that the film is about an assassination as though the person is scanning for the victim. |
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| Original: These are stills from the remake of the movie: Mission impossible. The background music playing throughout this opening is very effective in the way that it gets the audience ready for the rest of the film, it creates drama and tension and gives the audience the idea (hints to them) that this film will be very fast paced and dramatic. I like the way that the music has been used to hint to the type of film that this will be, i will try to use this technique for my thriller opening. In the original at the beginning of this opening a match is struck and a bomb is lit, the flame followers the string as though moving closer towards the bomb, while this is happening different images flash onto and off of the shot, in the remade version, this still happens although the images are quicker to give it a more fast paced action packed feel, and instead of having the flame following the string along the bottom through the whole of the opening it just has quick images of it flash amongst the others, I like the way that this has been done although i don't think it will work for a thriller opening. At the end of the opening the bombs goes off, i like the way that it has ended so suddenly, this technique will be used in my thriller opening- when the man opens his eyes it will cut to a black screen and the title will appear. |
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqzNySOLES This is the opening for the film Seven. In this opening the titles and names of people are in a weird, curved font that looks handwritten rather than blocked this works well as it relates to the theme of the film, it add tension and creates mystery. The images shown in this opening are of someone looking over documents, highlighting and circling sections of them, this creates a lot of tension and mystery as the viewer doesn't know what he is doing or why he is doing this, the person face is also never shown which also creates mystery and tension for the viewer, as they want to find out who this man is. The mis-en-scene is dark and gloomy, which makes the shots quite mysterious and creepy. |
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