- We have used the Miramax logo with a green effect at the start which creates more of an impact as well as a sound effect. Our logo is white on a black background and it fades in and out like the rest of our titles which are shown as full screen titles throughout the opening.
- The pace of editing starts out quite slow as everything appears calm
- Our location starts out along a path but as the opening goes on she becomes more surrounded by trees in a wood as it makes Tovia look more secluded and creates more tension as she appears far away from any help. This makes her appear more vulnerable and makes the audience think that she is the victim.
- Tovia wears feminine clothes (skirt and top) which emphasises the typical character type of a damsel in distress. She carries a bag which has no particular function however creates realism because if she was walking from one place to another she would probably be carrying a bag.
- The overall story of our thriller is that someone is following this girl and she realises but there is a twist as she comes across a body. The girl knows that the killer of the boy and the identity of the person following her may be linked.
- The lighting in thriller genres is often chiaroscuro suggesting a tense and negative atmosphere. The lighting in our opening has been made darker when we edited it to create more atmosphere and associate more with the thriller genre.
- The titles we have chosen are black and white which link to Strauss’ binary oppositions of good and evil and also life and death
- We have tried to create a variety of shots including match on action- going over the style, walking past the camera, also long shots, medium shots and close ups of Tovia’s face to show her emotion and fear and to make the opening more interesting.
-the pace starts to increase as she realises someone is following her and is very fast by the end as she comes across the dead body. The fast pace is to emphasise the tension and the panic felt by the girl and also the fact that she starts running so as she increases speed so does the editing.
- The wood is a suitable setting as there is a dead body and a wood may be somewhere you would leave a dead body.
-The opening creates mystery and the question of: who is the killer? And also: who was following her and why? The opening helps the audience identify the girl as a victim however she is not killed in the opening. It does this by making her appear scared and presenting her as a typical damsel in distress.
- The thriller genre often contains much mystery and tension in the opening scene, creating questions to be answered in the rest of the film. Thrillers often contain chase sequences; like in our opening and also crimes (murder of the boy).
- Our main title ‘the watcher’ at the end is white on black too and is in the font stencil. ‘The watcher’ is the title of our film due to the idea of someone following her and the mystery surrounding ‘the watchers’ identity.
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