Getting Ready

We have been watching the openings of a number of different Thriller films to get an idea of how each director has used different techniques to make the opening title sequence of a film dynamic and attract attention from the audience so they are gripped to there seats for the rest of the film.

As a group we closely looked at two Thriller openings in class and then another 2 outside of lesson. "Seven" and "Silence of the Lambs" were the two films we studied. The two films were very different in there techniques they used to portray a good opening but they both were very effective in making the opening gripping.

"Silence of the Lambs" uses a basic titles over a sequence of different shots. The shots are effective and help to engage the audience to think that the women is in a venerable situation but then the opening is twisted and it turns out to be that she is the cop. This at first confuses the viewer making them intrigued to keep on watching the film.

Seven starts off the same with a opening sequence of shots that make up a little "teaser trailer." After the sequence of shots has finished there is a collage of fast moving images that symbolise different action and themes running throughout the film.