Red Eye Opening Sequence - Thriller Research Task.

Red Eye (Wes Craven, 2005)

    

Red Eye is a thriller starring Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy and Brian Cox. In the opening sequence of the film we see the credit titles come onto screen. The titles are telling us the production company, the director of the film and the main stars of the film, like Rachel McAdams etc.
The credits appear with write text on a black background giving us a black and white affect. The titles appear on the screen and then fade out with the illusion of the credits becoming smaller. Once the titles stop, the actual title of the film appears in red. This starts of big on the screen and then fades out, the same as the credit titles.

Next we start to see the scenes. It starts of with the camera focusing on pictures that are on a side table which we see for around a minute before a hand appears in the camera. As the hand appears we see that it places some items onto the table in front of all pictures.
This is where the camera starts to come in as we see the camera zoom in and focus on one specific item which is the wallet. By the camera focusing on the wallet, it gives the audience a clue that the wallet means something in the film. In this opening sequence, we see that the camera doesn't have much movement. There is no camera movement affects as such, just the odd zoom in and out with a normal medium shot.

The sound in this opening sequence changes due to the scene that appears. To start of with, the sound is a dramatic sound but it is not loud. The sound starts of quite low then as the camera zooms on the wallet, it becomes louder and tense. We them move onto another scene where more sound appears; it doesn't have a dramatic sound but it doesn't have a soft sound. It is a sound that matches the scene so it is on the verge of being dramatic but not quite as dramatic as the first sound.
There is also another sound that appears which is a sound to match the action, so in this sequence, the sound appears when a man has a tool and is opening a wooded box.

In this opening sequence, there is no editing what so ever. There are no edited effects. the only edit that happens is the editing between scenes when it switches to different areas or different objects.

There are things in this opening sequence that I could try and use when I come to make my thriller opening sequence. I could use the idea of how this film's title credits appear on the screen and develop them to match my opening sequence.