Sunday, 30 April 2017

Pitching the opening

My film opening is going to be very basic as I believe that the most basic film openings are the most effective. The genre of my film will be a thriller film, and in the opening I hope to make the audience uneasy and make them feel uncomfortable whilst watching. It will involve somebody sitting in a chair I a dark place, probably a forest, whilst a hooded figure circles them. The hooded figure will be holding multiple weapons, including a golf club and a knife. As the majority of thriller films do involve weapons I thought it would be suitable and would add to the verisimilitude if a weapon were included. I will use a variety of shot types, using extreme close ups, high and low angle shots, to show both of the characters. I am going to use creepy music to build suspense, with the music increasingly becoming higher pitched. I aim for my opening to be very basic, however I hope in doing this it comes across as very effective.


My opening will be a montage opening, showing lots of quick shots in my opening and having the credits over the top. I have decided to do this as I believe that it will be the most effective, rather than having an animated opening for example, as this type of opening wouldn’t be as effective for the type of film I am doing. My film opening isn’t going to be in the equilibrium stage of the narrative theory, as it is going to be set at a different part of the story. This will then allow me to do more in my opening. 

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