Frame 1: This first frame is of our production logo 'Swivell Productions', we have aimed to make it look quite feminine as our target audience is mainly females. The font of the writing seems quite feminine as it is quite thin and swirly. As our opening is a thriller, we made the production logo dark but make the writing stand out, we made the background black and made the logo a blue/green colour to give quite a mysterious and suspense look.
Frame 2: The second frame is of the teenage victim sleeping, which sets the scene as it shows she is sleeping and may be having a nightmare and it shows that part of the opening is set in a house.We used a medium shot, as we wanted to get quite a close shot of her sleeping but get part of the surrounding environment in the shot around her to show where she is sleeping. This second shot introduces one of the main characters which is important as the main characters should be in introduced in the opening so that the audience know who they are. We also filmed this shot in night vision to show the fact that she is sleeping in the night and not in broad day light and we aimed to get as much low key lighting as possible to make the scene mysterious and tensed.
Frame 3: The third frame is a High-angle shot of the the girl walking away from her house, we used this angle because the shot connotes the vulnerability, powerless emotions of the girl as she is a victim of a stalker and he seems a lot more powerful, dominant and strong than her and this shot just shows how small she will become and useless.
Frame 4: After our two main characters are introduced, the actresses names enter and exit the screen, I think the names really adds the emphasise that our opening is a thriller genre as the font and style of the text and the way they enter and exit is effective. The writing is on a black background and the text itself is a bright white/light blue colour and we have made the text flash and look jumpy as this creates a thrilling effect and a cold and creepy atmosphere.
Frame 5: This frame is an over the shoulder shot of the stalker looking at a photo of the girl on facebook, this is not the first time the character is introduced but as said before it is important to introduce the main characters in the opening so the audience know who they are.
Frame 6: This frame again shows another over the shoulder shot of the unknown man watching the girl walk by. Frame 3 is related to this frame as it is a continuity shot of her walking away from the house into the park, a jump cut is used to speed up the process. The audience now know that the man in the white hoodie is definitely stalking the girl in reality as previous shots show a man in a white hoodie still looking at the same girl.
Frame 7: This frame denotes an extreme close up shot of the victims phone and connotes a mysterious and thrilling message from someone unknown. The shot is not shown in the frames but the shot before this is a mid shot of the girl receiving a text and then it suddenly jump cuts to an extreme close up of the text she has a received. This extreme close up shows the text is important.
Frame 8: This frame denotes a medium shot of the stalker looking at pictures of the girl his been stalking on the door. It connotes obsession and fear for the girl. We used a medium shot because we wanted the audience to see the stalker but also see what he is doing and looking at. We have quite a few shots of the stalker as we want the audience to know the storyline about an unknown man who has an obsession with a teenage girl and stalks her.
Frame 9: This frame is the title of our film which appears at the end of the opening as most other thriller opening titles appear in the middle of the opening or at the end. We've aimed to make the title appear creepy
and have a thrilling atmosphere to show that it is a thriller genre by making it dark and making the font red
and like the other titles, animating it to glow, flash and jump.
Frame 1: This shot is from the film seven, the mise en scene shows that it is a thriller genre as the lighting is quite low key and the colour is red which could represent blood. Also the titles make seven look more like a thriller they are bright and flash. The way Sevens titles are animated and represented inspired us so we did our titles similar to seven to create the same effect and atmosphere. Frame 2 is similar in some ways as we filtered the colour of the scene to night vision to create a tensed atmosphere just like seven have filtered part of the frame red.
Frame 2: This shot is also from seven, it is an extreme close up shot of dirty, bloody fingers and a sewing needle. Seven have established the plot which is visible to the audience as they can see only the mans fingers which we assume is a serial killer because of the other weird shots shown .
Frame 4: This frame denotes a close up shot of a man putting on his shirt, however it looks as if someone is being strangled because of the way he pulls it over face which resembles that Dexter is a thriller. Frame five from our opening thriller also resembles that our opening is a thriller because it has an over the shoulder shot of a hooded man sitting at his computer staring at a girl's picture on facebook. This will give the audience that he has an obsession with her and so should see that the film is a thriller.
Frame 5: This frame is an over the shoulder shot of Dexter looking in the mirror but you can only clearly see part of his head as his reflection in the mirror is blurred. This is an effective shot as the audience will wonder what he is looking at and why he is staring at his reflection.
Frame 6: This shot sets the setting as it shows that the film is set in the city. This shot shows big city buildings and busy streets full of cars and people with an opening title as the name of the building. The title on the front of the building is effective as the person's name fits in with the scene.
Frame 6 from our thriller opening is similar as it also sets the scene, you can see that part of the opening is set in a park where the girl is being stalked.
Frame 7: This shot is from the film hostage, this shot is showing the opening titles which exit and enter very effectively. They make the titles look like they are part of the building and it also shows that its a thriller because of the dark and tensed atmosphere created.
Frame 8 & 9: These two shots are also from Hostage, the shot in frame 8 is the opening title and it is made to look like it is falling down in between to buildings and the shot in frame 8 has people all armed with guns and etc which I assume are police, so this tells me that this is a thriller.
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