Costume, cast, set design, location, props

                                               Costumes 

We decided that the girl character should wear black medium length skirt with white casual top and black ripped tights. 

When it comes to costumes for bad guys we were thinking about white tank top, brown long coat on top of it, jeans and flat cap.
They second man would wear dark blue turtleneck, harrington and dark black jeans. 

Cast 

We wanted to cast our media teacher - Katie for a girl and two psychology teachers for bad guys - James and Steve. 

Set design/ location 

As our location we will use basement. 

If it comes to set design we imagined it to be rather simple - the girl sitting on the chair in the middle of the room, tighten up with a rope. The bucket with water will be outside with towel - bad guys will bring them inside at the end of the sequence. 

Props 
We need a chair, rope, family picture, bucket filled with water, towel and fake blood. 

Pitching our polished ideas to Matt and Luke

At the beginning of this week in groups we were suppose to pitch our changed and developed ideas to Matt and Luke. 

We were thinking what we like most from our previous idea - we all agreed that we want to make interrogation of a girl as a leading theme. We wanted to set in the dark and creepy basement as a place of interrogation. Our plot is mainly based on young girl being questioned by two bad guys. They want to know information about a man that they are looking for. The audience won't know who the girl is for the wanted man. She refuses to answer any questions, male characters are getting really annoyed at her so every time when she is not answering they beat her. At some point they decide to walk outside to get a bucket of water and a towel for the use of torture. As soon as they get back inside the window is opened and the girl is gone. 

Presenting our ideas to Matt and Luke 

For the last weeks we were preparing to pitch our idea to Matt and Luke. They liked our main concept of interrogation a young girl and the idea of untold story behind all that events. They were thinking about our locations, they suggested to limit it to one location to make it more realistic. If we prefer doing it in the shop only they said to maybe do it somewhere else than a Peaslake shop (which was our initial idea), due to the fact that part of our audience is going to recognize this shop since they leave near by. They would concentrate more on this shop more than our opening sequence. 

The second suggestion that they have made was that if 'bad guys' were chasing the cop for quite some time, they would know how he looks like, where he lives and general information about him, so the question was why would they need a girl ?

We have week to think about theirs suggestions, change our backstory and to polish our idea before the next pitch. 

Mood Board 

 

What is a mood board? 

It is a collection of pictures that inspired us during creating our idea, and which are giving general overall how we want our opening sequence to look like. 

Both pictues on the left side of the cars shows the way we want to shot our car scene - what kinds of shots and angles. The middle picture accuretly describes our idea - how to 'bad guys' are sitting in the front of the car and third person is visible in the back. 

The photograph of the shop on the bottom shows the kind of the corner shop that we were thinking about to set our first scene. 

Black and white portrait captures a 'scary man'. We aim to represent our bad characters in the car as frightening people. 

The picture of the kitchen in the middle top is to show the mood of our sequence - it is rather gloomy and dark. 

New idea! 

We have started creating new idea before pitching to Matt and Luke. Firstly we have turned the religious theme into detective/bad guys theme, together with this change we cut our locations only to shop and street (there was no point to use church). 

Our new idea was about a retired police officer, who was chacing a big group of criminals few years before (the audience get to know these facts together with the developing plot) and he put a few of them in jail. Now the rest of them are chasing him to revange. 

It begins with policeman buying products in the corner shop, while paying he is having conversation with the cashier, in this moment the audience will get to know that he is a policeman. 

Afterwards our main character is leaving the shop and walking along the street, on the opposite side of the street the audience can see parked car. Two 'bad guys' are sitting inside observing retired detective. One of them, on the drivers seat seems to talk on the phone - he is asking questions like Is he the right guy? Are you sure that that;s him?, but he does not get the answer so he is getting annoyed and suddenly when he is screaming for the answer he is turning around where the audience can see beaten girl, shaking and tthen she replies - 'Yes'. Subsequently we can see how bad guys are preparing their weapons. At that point the opening sequence ends.

Pitching to Mike 

Before Mike came to hear our ideas, we wrote everything down - what type of thriller we were thinking about. The whole sequence plan in details. We also had a few ideas when it comes to shots and music.

After pitching it to Mike he gave us a little feedback. Generally he liked our idea - connecting things on daily basis with murder and heads that been cut off, additionaly the idea that the main character is watched by 'bad guys', which makes the sequence more mysterious - when two stories are crossed together. 

He said that we should cut our locations (shop, street and church) to one or two because it is getting to complicated and there is no time to shoot in three different locations within one day. If we want it to be realistic and in good quality we needed to choose one or two of the ones that we had. 

Secondly he suggested that the whole religious theme is pointless - if we think that the sequence can still work without him being a priest we should go for something else. 

The last issue was at the end of our idea - if the main character was a professional murderer he would never leave head in the fridge (which Mike found to be a really nice and 'funny' idea) or the place of the crime 'open' for everyone. It just does not make sense. 

When Mike finished giving us the feedback we went to the other classroom to think about all suggestions given by Mike and we started changing our idea... 

What happens next?

At the end of this week or at the beginning of the next one we are going to present our ideas to Mike. We are going to get some feedback, what to change, what is well done, if he sees any problems. We will discuss location, story line, if we need any permissions to shoot and our basic plan. After that we will need to finalize our idea and decide upon who do we want to cast, what props do we need, what music should we use to build up the tension. We also need to draw our storyboard and decide on our shots. Due to the fact that we want to shoot in the market and local church we need a permission to shoot there. 

Working in groups 

At the end of last week w have been devided into groups of 4. In these groups we are going to shoot our thriller opening sequences. I am working with Hugo, Tommaso and Kirill.

We started discussing or ideas - if to combine them in some way, to pick one or to come up with completly new idea together. It was hard to connect our ideas and we couldn't decide who's idea we like the most as a group so we decided to start from the beginning. We started our brain storm from location because during the weekend together with Tommaso we found an amazing church in London, where the interial looked like a militarian ship. It would suit really good for the thriller - there were different rooms with ropes, knifes, hooks and there was also a chapel.


From the beginning our main theme was a religious/gothic opening sequence. Apparently we are not allowed to shoot away from school or Guildford so we abandoned the idea of church in London.

While working on our idea we agreed on everything, we only argued about little details. The whole process of creating our concept went fast.

Our opening sequence is going to be about priest and his morning routine. Firstly we want to show how he is well known and liked among local people by having conversations with shop keeper and a pedestrian. Then when he is walking to the church we can see him as someone is observing him, but the audience doesn't really know who. He is entering the church and makes the sign of the cross. Next he is walking to the small room to put products that he bought in the fridge and then we speculated to show a head of a dead person in that fridge. At the end the priest would give the audience a visual tour arounf that room showing typical equipment used while commiting a crime.

Presenting initial ideas to class 

At the beginning of this week we were suppose to present our favourite initial idea to the whole class. We got a paper from Katie, where we can write our opinions about other's presentations - what went well/wrong or if we see any problems. 

Everyone needed to talk about the whole story line of the movie and then about the opening sequence in detail. 

I choose to present the idea about missing girl. 

My whole story line was about young murder, who kills teenage girls, but at some point he just cannot help it - it becomes an addiction. He knows that it's really awful so he decides to kill himself. The girl at the beginning was just one of his first victims. 

My opening sequence would be concentrated on girl's morning and things that she is doing on the daily basis. Only thing that was suspicious for her was that her mom did not wake up, despite the fact that the girl was shacking her body and asking loudly to give her a drive to school.  She does not realize that she is gone until nobody is noticing her in school and she sees 'missing person' posters around town. 

The whole group generally liked my idea, they only said that the fact that the girl is asking her mother to give her a lift to school does not make sens if she finally walk on her own. 

Analysis of preliminary task 

On our last studio lesson we've been editing our footage from last week. 

We've decided to start with long shot to set the scene, show the audience the location and both characters. It was an eye level shot to make the viewer feel like she/he is a part of the action. 

Subsequently we put close up over the shoulder to show Hugo facial expressions, afterwards we changed it onto over the shoulder shot on Tommaso to emphasize the idea of conversation. 

Then we captured both characters in one show to show the little distance, the intensity between them two.  We used quick editing to change the shot and show the increasing pace of the conversation. Then the camera was pointing on Tommaso, focusing on his gestures and facial expressions. 

Till the end the viewer can only see Tommaso going backwards towards the door. 

As a last shot we've decided to add a comedic element, when suddenly the viewer can see Tommaso dragging Hugo along the floor. 

Finished clip last for 25 seconds, but what is interesting that it took us more that an hour to get the footage that we needed. The whole process was really time consuming. It requires a lot of patience and concentration. I found continuity the most important thing. It makes your editing a lot easier. At the beginning it was hard to remember about it but later each person from our group was looking after fluency. I was happy shots over the shoulder and close ups. It makes the moment more emotional and helps to set the atmosphere. I think we could have add more camera movements like panning during conversation - to make this clip more interesting, or to add shots from different angles to suggest who is more energetic and to show their role and power in this situation. 

I had a lot of fun during shooting but it is important to stay concentrated of all times especially when you are a director. Watch everyone on the set and control continuity. It is also important to shot as many footage as possible to make your movie/clip more interesting. 

Edited preliminary task 

Influence of sound in thriller sequence

As a first sequence I choose clip called 'Ends of Deceit', which is a opening scene to a thriller movie made by Hurtwood students. 

This clip starts with a few seconds of credits accompanying by non - diegetic ambient melody, in order to create tension and set a viewer in a insecure mood. It is also a sound bridge to the beginning of the action when camera is panning in the room to show the location of a action. The purpose of the sound bridge is to keep the audience in the same mood and prejudice. 

Then we see a girl in her bathrobe coming into the kitchen with her dog. The observer sees and hear door opening so it is a diegetic sound.

The mysterious melody is still playing in a background but at the moment when the actress comes in the additional sounds begin. Her footsteps, or rather scrapes are a diegetic and pleonastic sound. Due to her clothing we can assume that it is morning, so the scrapes can suggest that she is tired or she has just woke up.  Girl opens the door which is a diegetic sound and lets her dog out. In this point the gloomy soundtrack ends, what make the audience more concentrate on the following sounds. From that moment the audience can see only the dog. His footsteps, which are diegetic and pleonastic are imposing his importance in this clip. For the next 40 seconds the audience can see the dog running around in the forest. We can hear simple, natural and delicate sounds of nature - wind, birds, movement of leaves - these are all non - diegetic sounds. They influence on our suspicions, now it seems like nothing special will happen, every sound is neutral. The audience abandons the mysterious and scary perception of the clip. On the next shot we can see the dog in front of the house. He is getting inside by pushing and scratching the door, which are diegetic sounds. He is running to his bowl with food and starts eating. Here the tension starts to build up again. While eating the ambient melody starts to play one more time , which makes the audience questionnaire what is happening. Sound of eating, which is diegetic sound and soundtrack set the audience in the uncertain feeling what is going to happen next.  Subsequently we can hear dog's footsteps, which is a diegetic sound, he is going to other room and suddenly the ambient sound start to play parallel with footsteps and the audience can see the victim of the murder - girl is laying on the floor with her head in blood. The sudden appearance of deep and intense sound with the view of killed girl shocks audience. Afterwards dog is walking next to the victim squealing, which is a diegetic sound. It makes the audience feel helpless and pity. 

After watching this clip i thought that the amount of sound is balanced. It did not bulit up tension throughout the whole clip which i liked because at the beginning the audience is waiting for the plot twist but suddenly it dropps and lives the observer with confusion. The plot twist takes place at the end when the audience does not expect that. 

IDEAS FOR THRILLER OPENING SEQUENCE 

1. Missing person 

I was thinking about showing a typical morning of a teenage girl, everything is on daily basis but when she is trying to wake her mom up to drive her to school she won't wake up even if the girl is shaking her body. The girl is in such a hurry that she decides to walk on her own. She is getting out of the house and she is passing trees every few meters but the thing that she doesn't notice is 'missing person' posters on every tree with a picture of her.

2. Imaginary friend

In this sequence i was thinking to show a person talking to another person throughout the whole sequence, but the audience sees only one person talking, asking questions, asking about their opinion about his/hers look. At the end of the sequence camera is showing the rest of the room and that there is nobody there. 

3. Mirror 

I thought of setting this sequence in a car -  lady is driving really nervously in a bad weather. She acts really stressed, she keeps looking in the rear view mirror - nothing's there. When she looks away on a street the audience sees the reflection of a men sitting on a back seat. Suddenly she stops a car, she opens the door and we can see the man reflection one more time in a window of the door and the lady is getting out of the car.

Studio lesson - preliminary task 

In this week studio lesson we shot some short sequences of opening scene, from a story board that we were given earlier. 

We worked on a small set - it was a room with a fireplace. There were two actors (Tommaso and Hugo) I was a director and a camera operator (Kirill), who was using Canon 5D. Actors were supposed to learn few lines by heart and then we were ready to start shooting.  The first take witch was a long shot to set the scene, show both characters and their reactions. At the beginning i had to control all lines and continuity, so that later it is easy to blend different shots together. As the second and third take we did over the shoulder shots from both sides. After that we shot the whole sequence through the door so that the viewer can see Tommaso from the back and Hugo from the front. Then we did an eye level shot of both characters to make the observer feel the tension between these two. As our last take we added our own idea, when Tommaso is pulling Hugo along the floor. Which we found would be a funny element in that story. 

During this task we had lots of fun, it appeared not to be that easy as it seemed. We needed to repeated each take couple of times. It was crucial to film the whole scene from different angles so then we have a lot of footage to play with during editing. 

I've learnt how important is communication on a set. There were some mistakes during the shot that i didn't notice but actors did -  and we needed to do another take. Secondly it important to check footage before moving the camera, because later it is very hard to set the scene this same way as it was. During filming everybody needs to be aware of little natural things like shadows, cables and frames to make our shot clear.

Thrillers 

Thriller is a one of the main genres in the movie industry. It is using suspense, mysterious music and tension to make the viewer anxious and increasingly terrified. 

There are different types of thrillers - psychological, crime, romantic, spy, action etc... 

Psychological

This type of thriller emphasizes the mental health and emotional state of characters.

 In this sub-genre a lot of the conflict is mental, rather than physical. The protagonist has become involved in a dangerous situation which literally threatens their sanity.

Crime 
This sub-genre focuses on crime, and is usually from the criminal’s point of view. Physical action and avoiding the police take the place of gathering evidence and trying to discover the criminal.

Romantic 

It is a combination of thriller and romance. The plot line follows a typical thriller’s tension, suspense, and excitement, but a main element is concentrating on a relationship between two characters.

Spy 

This sub-genre focuses on the adventures of field agents. They mostly face criminals or any kinds of crooks. 

Action

This sub-genre contains a lot of violence, fights and explosions.

Disaster 

In this sub-genre the disaster takes place and the antagonist is trying to prevent this disaster or the extent of the disaster, or just save themselves before time runs out.

Religious 

This sub-genre uses the history and myths of religion. Usually a religious artifact or historical secret is discovered, and different people and groups compete for control.

Camera Shots/Angles/Movements

SHOTS

Establishing shot   it's mostly used at the beginning of the movie. To show the viewer where and sometimes when (time of the day) the action is taking place. It is generally long or extreme long shot. 

Extreme long shot  sets the scene, it is mostly used as exterior - to show the surroundings, where the action will take place.       

Long shot shows the whole object or full human body. It is concentrating more on details.

Mid long shot captures characters from knees upwards. Allows the viewer see more details and observe body language. 

Two shot is a shot of two people 

Mid shot shows a character from its waist upwards. It reveals more details.

Close up is a close shot mostly of character's face or object. It makes the viewer concentrate on facial expressions.

Extreme close up is a very close shot capturing the most details of character or object.

ANGLES 

High angle shot is a shot where camera looks down on a subject form a high angle. It makes the character/object look helpless and weak

Low angle shot is a shot where camera looks up at the subject. It makes the character look powerful.

Point of view shot shows the viewer what the subject is looking at - its point of view.

Over the shoulder shot is a shot of someone or something taken from the perspective of camera angle from the shoulder of another person. 

Canted, dutch angle shot is a tilted, turned shot, which makes the viewer confused.

MOVEMENTS

• Zoom - its changing the focal length between the lens of the camera to make subject closer (bigger) or further away (smaller).  

• Tilt - camera moves up and down.

• Pan - camera stays in one position but it rotates.

• Handheld - when the camera operator is holding the camera while shooting. 

• Track - when camera follows together with subject. 

STUDIO LESSON 3 - EDITING

On our third lesson in the studio we learnt how to edit our sequences that we did on our previous lesson.

Firstly Matt showed us how Adobe Premier works, which allows us to crop and connect different pieces of footage. Then we were supposed to edit our sequences. To make my clip I used long shot, mid shot and close up. I found continuity the most important thing while editing a sequence. You need to remember about the position of objects, movement of characters etc.

First we used long shot to set the scene - the main character was walking down the stairs. In the middle of this shot we put mid shot to show more detail of our actor while sitting on the stairs. At the end of the scene we add a close up of character saying his line.

 After this class i know how to use Adobe Premiere and how to blend different shots together to make our sequence/film more interesting!



Our second class in the studio! 

At the beginning of the lesson we concentrated on 180-degree rule. It is a imaginary line used while shooting different scenes, which you can not cross. For example while filming two people having a conversation we can capture them only on one side of our imaginary line. Due to that rule our characters are remaining on this same positions.

If we cross it the viewer might be confused because in the previous shot one of the characters was on the right side of the screen and in the next shot they have changed places.

After practicing 180-degree rule on camera Sony NX5 we started talking about short sequences of shots and their order to make our scene as good as we can.

Then we split into few groups and for the rest the lesson we were shooting different sequences. 

In this task I was a director. My 'job' was to set the scene, place my actor in position that I wanted and cooperate with camera operator, mainly we discussed the place of the camera and just before recording the shot i needed to make sure that he is ready to shoot and camera is ready to roll. The most important commands where: 'Stand by', 'Roll camera', 'Action' and 'Cut'. After first command the camera operator is supposed to answer 'Standing by' and whenever he is ready to record - 'Rolling'. 

My first shot was a wide shot just to set the scene and show the location. The next shot captured character from waist upwards which was a medium shot to show more detail on my actor and his surroundings. The last two shots were close-ups. First one was a close-up on a actors' face to see his facial expression and movement of his mouth while saying his line. The second one was showing him walking down the stairs. We needed so many shots of one scene that while editing the whole scene, we can combine few different shots to make our scene more interesting and polished. 

I had a lot of fun during this lesson, i got to know better the perfect order of shots and this lesson helped me with understanding the 180-degree rule which is crucial while shooting a movie. 

   First lesson in the studio! 

During our first class in the studio we have learnt how to set the tripod and how to work with different types of cameras.

       We worked with Sony NX5

Sony FS100 

                     and Canon 5D    

             

                                     Each of these cameras had slightly different options.   

Sony NX5 is the most professional one. But together with Sony FS100 they are on very high level. When it comes to Canon 5D it is really small and light compering to other two Sony’s. 

Sony NX5 and FS100 have zoom option, and focus, however if we want to sharpen our shot, first we need to zoom in and then adjust manually a perfect focus and then zoom out.

Canon 5D has interchangeable lens which means that it is zoomless. It also means that if we want to focus our shot we need to measure the distance between lens and object that we want to shoot. 

We also learnt how to put batteries into each camera. 

At the end of the lesson we studied white balance which means making colours (mainly white) in our shot as much reflecting the real colours as possible. To change these colours we used white balance board. 

During last minutes of the lesson we trained our newly acquired skills!

„The Notebook”

movie poster analysis

While looking at this poster we can see two people standing close to each other in the rain with their eyes closed, which implies that they are about to kiss. This excites the viewer because it makes them want to know what is going to happen next. The viewer wants to learn more about the relationship and their backstory. 

The camera shot is a medium two shot, which explains why we can only see their bodies from the waist upwards. The picture is taken from a low angle and therefore involves us and makes us feel as if we are, ‚living in their world’.

The first thought that comes into our mind is that the genre is a romantic tragedy. This attracts viewers because they want to experience a tragic twist within the story. We can assume that the plot revolves mainly around love and intimacy. The intimacy of the image excites viewers which suggests that women and teenage girls are the target audience; as they want to see more scenes similar to this image. 

Both the characters are standing in the rain which implies that the story is not as happy as we first thought, and that there will be lots of ups and downs. On the other hand the sky is clear, clouds are soft and practically not visible and because of that we can assume that there are going to be plot twists - there is always sun after a rain. The character’s clothes are soaked as a result of the rain, which symbolises that they had many obstacles to overcome in order to find happiness together. 

We can see a engagment ring on the woman’s hand, however the viewer can not tell if she is engaged to the man who is holding her in his arms on the poster, or maybe a man that hinders the fullfilment of their love…? This intrigues the viewer and makes them want to learn more about the story, and the complicated relationship between these two. 

The main colours on this poster are white and blue which are signifiers. The male character on the poster is wearing a white shirt which signifies purity and innocence. The blue colour symbolies the tradegy of their relationship but on the other hand it signifies the abyss of their love, passion and infinity.

Around them bears a delicate glow, which can suggest that they treat their powerful feelings like holiness. 

The costumes show the time frame that the film is set in. They are clearly from the 1940’s era. The man is wearing a thin white blouse and the woman is wearing a 40’s style dress. 

Furtermore, The font that is used for the credits and title are very simple, and therefore they do not take the viewer’s attention away from the main image.

‚The notebook’ literally means journal where we can write our memories, different experiences, feelings etc. and then with the flow of time we return to these records… In this movie according to the meaning of notebook it can suggest that their love lasted very long time, it was overflowing with different emotions and events. We can also assume that with age they have flashbacks to those moments which they shared…

SUBMERGED

The clip called Sumberged is a opening scene to a thriller movie. It is set in submarine control room.

The scene starts by lightening dark screen with a blue ray. From the beginning in the background high pitched moan can be heard. At this point in the clip it is hard to say what is the location of the movie or its plot. After few moments we can see outilne of a submarine and its indoor with two people in. These two characters seem to be collages (and friends even) monitoring the scanning system and spoting any anomalies.

Suddenly they notice sunken boat. In the same moment they start to loose power and contact with their land base. And that is how the opening sequance ends.

The tension is build up from the beginning. The sound that viewer can hear in the background for the whole duration of the clip is giving a mysterious mood and the atmosphere. The control room is rather gloomy and dark which adds uncertainty to the scene. The shots of  the sunken boat are not really clear which makes observer more interested but on the other side frighten...

„The life of David Gale” Review

       Recently i have seen movie called „The life of David Gale” from 2003 by Alan Parker. My favourite actress , Kate Winslet, is playing the role of one of the antagonists -  together with Kavin Spacey.

She is a well known reporter who is been signed to a case completly different from her department, it then appears that it was on the request of main character - David Gale  (Kevin Spacey) who is a well educated profesor on university in Teksas. He has been accused of rape and a murder with a death penalty.

The action takes place over three days before his death verdict and Bitsey Bloom (Kate Winslet) is supposed to make an interview with him over these three days, to get the whole truth story and then expose it to the daylight… At first she is completly against him and she does not understand the purpose of her doing the interview, but she could not do anything about it. With the flow of hours she is starting to understand that her presence in the prison is not accidental…

       I must say that the opening sequence is rather random. The first scene is a wide shot showing us a field, in the middle of no where. Then from afar we can see a car that goes on from the right side of the shot towards the left, slowly reducing speed. A few moments later we can see vehical stopping in the middle of the road and a lot amount of smoke around it.

 Then the viewer can hear swearing in the distance really quietly. The driver gets out of the car energetically, not even closing the door, and start to run very quickly. We can not see who is the person.

 The next long shot captures a woman running, from her side, so we authomaticlly assume that she was the person that was driving the car.

 In the following shots we can see her with a cassette in her hand. She keeps going, passing shops and buildings and finally she gets to the little town. Suddenly she sees a truck and by blocking its way she screams for help. The car passes her selflessly.

 She is not giving up and starts running again, and thats the end of the opening sequence.

When i was watching these first minutes at first i was confused - i did not know who is that woman, why is she in such a hurry and what is this cassette. With the duration of the movie you realize that it was connected to the plot. After watching these first minutes it is hard to define the genre and tone of the film. First things that came into my mind while watching it were : „This woman looks very determinated, but what is she actually doing and why?”. I had mainly questions in my head and no information about the direct location, pace, genre or characters… But because there were so many unknows i got intrigued, i wanted answers to my questions.

I think that this opening sequence broke „stereotypes” - nothing was served on a platter. After watching the most common opening sequences, the viewer is able to predict what the plot is going to be about.

These two minutes were extraoridinery - there was no music, you could only hear her steps, breathing, birds singing and the sound of drums in the background. Because of this simplicity the viewer feels like a part of an action, like observer. The beginning does not reveal any details about further events. With the flow of time there are answers to all the questions that bothered the viewer at the beginning.

       In conclusion. The openning sequence in the movie called „The life of David Gale” is out of context, it is not like the majority of films openning scenes, instead showing the viewer what it is going to be about or what is the pace and location of the movie it makes you think more intensively about it. No information has been revealed and becuase of that the viewer is more interested in the plot and what will happen in a minute. I think it broke basic standards of general openning sequences and it made me feel more excited for exploaring the movie and more like a character in the film than a viewer becuase of the simplicity.

Maybe it doesnt introduce you to the movie and it does not make it easier to understand the film but it forces you to think about it and deepen your knowledge about the fact that you already have…