the opening credits are writen in a weird font you see 3 versions of the text all in differn't sizes moving at differnt times across the screen also a few of the letters seem to twice every so often.
this is to create a creepy feel to the film.
the only lighting used is key light to keep a dark feel and uses Low key lighting to keep the film feeling dark
the credits fade to black and fade in to part of jigsaws death traps
the producer uses Extreme Close Ups of the traps slowly revealing the trap to the audience
there is not alot of opening credits
to finish the opening we see the first two victims waking up and wondering where they are
using a medium close up.
The plot of the opening is to introduce jigsaw the main cerial killer of the series new game of life and death and to show the audience how sick and twisted the film is going to become as in the first 5 minutes there is alot of blood ,gore and self harming.
FLIGHT PLAN
Below is the opening to Flight Plan, Our theme for our opening peice is a thriller. I have looked at various openings to Thrillers, below is one of them. This Film begins with a train going past, after it 'Touchstone Pictures and Imagaine entertainment present', follows, it is white writing on a black background which creates a eerie feel , this is the first thing you see so it sets both the mood, and the setting of a train station, The rest of the titles follow in the style of a train going past, the kind of shutter, line effect going over the writing is used to create this, this also give a tense feel to it. After the last name, the black screen fades out and shows a train with a woman sitting on the bench persumed to be waiting for the train. This scene is the establishing shot and shows the back of the lady in the middle of the screen, this automaticly make you think she is the main charecter. High Key lighting is used in this scene. The doors of the train open and the camera beings to zoom into her with the words 'Flight Plan' in white, fading in beside her, the pause here and the time it takes to zoom in also creates a feel of suspence, its almost like your waiting for something to happen now. The writing 'Flight Plan', which establishes the name of the film, flashes and fades back out, the camera then turns to the other side and shows the front of her face, this is the first time you see her, it continues to zoom it up to a 'Close up' viewpoint to show the worried emotion on her face. Quite a Soft High Key lighting is used here, this is to make you look more at her expression and less at the shadows. This sets the scene and mood for the rest of the film, the screen then blanks out and opens on a new scence, where low key lighting is used. This is the begining of the film. This will help me with openings because it shows new ways of setting a scene and creating the mood for the rest of the film. This opening scene captures your intrest in the film so it is inportant it is intresting and full of tension and suspense.
Dawn of the Dead (2004) {First Scene 00:00-01:00}
To begin with there are the dedications, to the filming groups, that help put the movie together; (such as logos, and iconic animations, “universal studios”).
However, instead of their iconic backing track, there is a more eerie track that runs through the dedications. This instantly puts the audience out of there comfort zone; helping to add to the films atmosphere. Relating to the fact that the genre is horror, a low continuous sound with a few distortions helps to create the atmosphere for the following scenes.
The final logo then dissolves, into what looks like a fire or chemicals mixing (a bright, moving mass of a yellowy orange substance). This then has a use of non-diegetic sound of fire burning, or even something dissolving in acid. These sounds will most like have been produced, using a technique called Foley art/sound.
The camera zooms out changing the colour of the mas to a white and blue; as the camera retreats farther the image of an X-Ray is shown, this would be considered the establishing shot; as unlike the first shot (established as a extreme close up of the X-Ray) I lets the audience know that it is in a hospital, this is strengthened by the fact that the shot is over the shoulder of a person in a lab coat. The audio also fades out, and the diegetic dialogue fades in. this almost gives the impression of snapping into reality or fading out of it.
The shot then zooms out further, to reveal the shot is over the shoulder of a doctor. This reveals the it is the doctor talking and not a voice over. A mid shot is used for the two characters to swap dialogue, once the character has finished his phone call the shot jumps out with no audio; to a long shot. This use of jumpy camera changes is typical of horror film as it adds a sense of urgency. As the characters begin to talk the shot goes back to a mid shot, the use of going out to a long shot could be considered as the establishing shot
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