These are some screen grabs from my thriller opening and some screen grabs from the thriller opening of the thriller 'SE7EN'. I would say that we definitely used 'SE7EN' as an inspiration for my work as when I watched the opening of the film, I wondered what the rest of the film would be about and wanted to watch the rest of it - which is exactly the point of an opening. I also found some of the images quite disturbing, but very effective - the shaving of the fingerprints, the disfigured hands, the distorted inked writing. These things worked really well to denote a sense of psychological disturbance, in particular, that of an actual psychopath. We also wanted our work to denote a similar sense so we decided to film lots of strange, distorted images that wold showcase that our character is uncomfortable seeing them, which in turn would make the audience feel curious, as well as provoking tension in them. As you can see, we have some images of a book case and books and have edited them into quite grainy, negative images. Books, paper and photographs seem like a recurring motif in the opening of 'SE7EN' and we wanted to make this one of our motifs too, as it really creates a sense of history and makes the audience ponder about what the importance of the documents are - they usually end up being very important. We wanted to make our images look strange and seem as though they are not making sense, as in 'SE7EN'. Another motive behind choosing 'SE7EN' as our inspiration is that when the opening leads onto the beginning of the film, it seems as if all is back to normal. This is how we would have also wanted the next part of our film to be. We would have done this because the when there is normality, the audience would sense that something is going to go wrong or that the story plot is going to take a twist, which creates a sense of waiting and tension.It is also commonly known that when normality is disrupted, drama is created, which always grips those who are watching the film. The colour schemes are very different in the two openings. Where 'SE7EN' uses very sombre, cold colours, my film opening uses a range of different colours to show unsettlement, movement and slight chaos.
'SE7EN' title opening:
'Goodnight, Sleep Tight' titles:
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