Opening sequence inspiration.

Recently i have watched varouis opening sequence's to varouis films that follow a similar storyline to the one that me and britney have come up with, and therefore thought i would share them with you and outline what we could take from these opening sequence and how we can adapt certian aspects into our own opening sequence. These are the two which particualry stood out to me due to the contect of what we are trying to potray being almost identical.

1) Safe Haven. (2013)

The film starts with a female character running out of a house, she is clearly distressed ( you can tell this through her body langauge & facial expressions) The character is clearly running away from something.

The character is dressed quite formal - allowing the audiene to infer that her escaping was not planned ( we can also infer this from the lack of footwear) I think what i'm going to take inspiration from this opeing sequence is the sound effects of her running away ( Her beig out of breath) to help reinforce the fact the character is escaping. I also think the use of shooting in the evening and after its just rained is a good idea to help create a dramatic atmosphere and to reinforce typical codes and conventions of the thiller genre.

2) Thirteen. (2016)

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMyhNphGpRk

 This series starts showing a young girl escaping from captive in a normal looking british street. The character slowly walks out of the house before the non-diegetic music picks up and she is shown running carelessly towards a phone to report her where-abouts.

The character when she first exits the house.

An Establishing shot of the street where the character escapes from.

Theese two shots help the audience slowly establish a possible storyline and the tension can also be bulit gradually. 

This shot shows the character running away from the camera.

This opening seqence also includes the use of non-diegetic music with added sound effects of the character being out of breath, helping to reinforece the fact the character is running away. I like the everyday, typical, british street setting also, which helps to show the social class of place where the character is being kept captive. 

How are we going to incorparte some of these idea's into our own opening sequence:

I really would like to use the idea of setting our opening sequence in a everyday, normal looking street as this will be easy to shoot and find within our area. I also like the use of music to help set the tone of the sequence and to help build tension and suspense, as well as using sound effects to show our character is out of breath and stressed by the siutation, helping to bulid further suspense for our audience. I think we are going to have our character dressed in dirty looking clothes and have them looking although they havent been looked after well to the audience to infer the type of place the character would have been kept in.