The Type of Opening
My group and I have not come to a definite conclusion on the type of opening we would like to create, but when we were generating ideas most of them sounded like a Narrative opening.
We all really liked the idea of doing an opening to suite a psychological-thriller. Together we came up with an idea to make a mentally unstable middle aged woman the main character of our thriller, she will be the character to get a lot a screen time if we decide to do a narrative opening.
In most Psychological thrillers the characters true personality is hidden at the beginning of this film to shock the audience later, we decided that this technique was effective so we would make the woman seem like a very average, kind and maybe even popular individual with a dark secret.
We went further to discuss how the camera would capture this storyline. This is what I imagine it might be like:
- A middle aged ordinary woman, who appears to be relatively normal is walking through a busy area in London.
- We build the character by showing they have a kind personality through short interactions with other people.
- The woman is walking home with a slight smile on her face which might strike the audience as weird or strange but not enough for any serious suspicion.
- As she is approaching the door to enter her home a battered doll baby drops out of her bag, someone gives it back to her and she snatches it back, with a shocked look on her face.
- She opens the door to her home, her mise-en-scene has changed drastically, she is no longer calm and collected, she is anxious to get inside.
- When she opens the door, we see her house is filled with old and new dolls of every kind.
We are not sure how exactly we will end the opening, at first we were so filled with ideas we has come up with many ways in which the woman could interact with the dolls that were in her house, then we realised that what we were planning would be to long for an opening so we would have to have less action and make it shorter.
To help me come up with more ideas to improve our opening I am going to watch more Psychological- Thrillers.
One that I have already watched and really enjoyed is 'The Stepfather', the opening of the film helped me understand how to effectively disguise a deadly personality of a character.
This is the full film:
Films I have already seen but will watch again to help inspire me creatively are Obsessed and Orphan.
Thrillers I will watch soon are Fatal Attraction and Memento.
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