Analysis of Thriller opening titles

Public Enemies - Action Thriller


The opening sequence of public enemies gives an insight as to what the narritive is going to lead to, it also shows the a background theme of the great depression in America, which tells the audience a location for the thriller and also introduces the names of the main characters in the film. This part is separate from the action as the characters names and information is shown on a black background with white writing, which shows the the audience that it is significant to the narrative.

An idea for how the group could use titles in our sequence:
We could put the title of the film at the beginning on a plain black background to make it stand out, and also as shown on public enemies it makes it clear and significant to show key features to the narrative and introduce the audience to the characters. I also thought that we could put the names of the characters over the action so that the audience can identify each character and the main character.

Location report

The majority of our filming will take place at a graveyard in Burwell.

We will travel by bus from Cambridge, on the Newmarket 10. There is a bus stop directly outside the church so its convenient for us all.

Before filming we will ask permission from the vicar of the church, to make sure we are being respectful.

We will keep the equipment in the church or one of our friends houses who lives next door to the church if it starts to rain. If it does start raining we will film the sequence where our main character wakes up, so then we don't waste any camera time.

The dream sequence will be filmed at Chloe's house in Sawston, because two of our group will in the same village.This will be the route that we take whilst filming the opening. We need to know the route of where we're going because then the shot list and the storyboard matches up to what we are doing.

Shot 4 and Shot 5 will be filmed at the end of the 1st yellow line
Shot 6 and Shot 7 will be filmed along the 2nd yellow line and then as it turns
Shot 8 and Shot 9 will be filmed along the 3rd yellow line

Unfortunately we will not be using this location anymore because the priest didn't agree to us filming in his graveyard. For future reference we will always check before we plan because it would have saved us so much time.

Blog advice from Andrea

Your blog is designed to evidence the research and planning you have done before you start filming your thriller.
A blog in the 'excellent' category could include some of the following detail:

3. Practise soundtrack for your thriller
18. Test footage with a full explanation as to the technique you were testing and how successful the test was.
20. Practise titles, consider the job titles and the names you wish to include. Do some research into titles. Look at Saul Bass as an industry expert in title sequences.

Pitch of Thriller opening idea

Our thriller opening is about a young girl who lives in a quiet town. She begins to experience nightmares which soon turn in to reality as she notices strange happenings in her life.

Our opening sequence is going to be set in a graveyard at night time, in Cambridge.
The characters that we are going to include are a young girl who is going to be played by Catherine and her three friends Chloe Tay and Rachael.

The genre of our opening is going to be a psychological thriller we are going to show this by incorporating the girls' fragile state of mind. This will be shown using close up shots inter cut with point of view shots to make the audience feel like the girl.

Eclipse Productions

This is our production logo that we are using for our project. We chose 'eclipse' as it sound sophisticated. We found when we tried to create the sun it was difficult at first to blur the sun to make it realistic we overcame this eventually and have found the logo to be quite effective.

Taking lives soundtrack

For this project we didn't have enough time to finish the soundtrack so this shows us that we need to set ourselves more time to make a soundtrack for our opening thriller sequence.
on certain parts of the soundtrack we used suspense building non diegetic music, to build up the tension and confusion of the film opening.

Mood Board

Our story for the opening of our thriller is going to be set in a graveyard as it is a flashback/dream from the main character and what she has experienced in her life.
This mood board shows the type of setting and atmosphere of the locations we would like to use in our thriller film.

Fugue.

The opening sequence of this film shows a close up of one man on a bus....

Hurtwood House Thrillers

This film opening uses fear of the unknown to put the audience in suspense.
The music is eerie which also builds on top of the suspense.
The title sequence uses the underground symbols/map to introduce the characters and the location of the film which is London.
The chemical shown in the closeup shots signify that this film could be a crime thriller or political thriller.

Eve

The use of music at the beginning is quite sad and slow, this is while the man is walking through the grave yard and putting flowers on someones grave. Later on the music becomes faster creating a fast paced atmosphere.

The fact that you couldn't see his face until later on in the film keeps the viewer from seeing everything at once. this creates a lot of suspense along with the music.

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