In the last few weeks, my group and I have been brainstorming ideas into what we want the film to be and look like. By developing ideas from each other we all wanted to create a opening that would ignite multiple questions for the audience so that they would be eager to watch on - and after many discussions and meetings we concluded that we wanted the genre of the film to be thriller.
The concept of our opening film sequence: The sequence starts off with solely a sound of a square knife hitting the table. Having this
at the start will naturally cause the audience to instantly think that it will cut to some sort of gruesome activity, because of the film being a thriller and the convections that go with it. From
here it will cut to a butcher cutting meat, which will act as a anti-climax to the tension - as he looks innocent and 'not the typical looks of a serial killer'. Alongside this, we are going to have diegetic sound of a radio report in the background of a person going missing. To exceute this, we will place a radio prop behind the counter and incorporate found footage sound into the editing process.
The next shot shows a 'ordinary looking' customer walking out of the butchers with a red holdall and then heading off down the road. From here, the audience will see a different person walking with the same bag to the train station. To create suspicion, the audience don't actually see the bag being exchanged from one person to the other. Throughout the rest of the sequence, this idea of having a bag being travelled around places and not seeing any exchanging of it will follow. This means that it will create eeriness to the opening as the audience don't know the significance of the bag and the people.
The next shot shows a 'ordinary looking' customer walking out of the butchers with a red holdall and then heading off down the road. From here, the audience will see a different person walking with the same bag to the train station. To create suspicion, the audience don't actually see the bag being exchanged from one person to the other. Throughout the rest of the sequence, this idea of having a bag being travelled around places and not seeing any exchanging of it will follow. This means that it will create eeriness to the opening as the audience don't know the significance of the bag and the people.
One unique aspect about this opening scene is that the sequence will be colour graded in black & white while the bag will be shown in red. This is an effective technique as we want the audience to realise that the bag is the subject of the attention in the film. This specific colour grading will potentially be done in Adobe Speed Grade due to it's complexity to produce results.
The girl dressed in red in 'Schindler's List' is an accurate reflection of what we are trying to create with the bag.
The girl dressed in red in 'Schindler's List' is an accurate reflection of what we are trying to create with the bag.
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