Silent Whisper

We watched past examples of thriller openings from previous years to get an idea of what is required of us. One opening that i thought was particularly effective was one called silent whisper. The reason for this is the titles were in the opening. They were hidden on the walls and in the text which meant you concentrated more on what was going on. The opening was very abstract and didn't really have a storyline which i think was very clever because when you look at thriller openings not a lot happens because thrillers are all about keeping things hidden from your audience for as long as possible. They had a good variety of camera shots and i especially liked the close ups and the hand held work that they did because they didn't over use and it felt like it really brought something to the piece . however i didn't really like it when they used the zoom function as i think that it didn't really look very professional. I really liked the way that they used binary opposites with the two characters clothing to show the contrasts of good and evil. The white of the girls clothes was really effective because it shows her innocence but the fact that you never get to see her face does give her a weird feel like she may of done some bad in the past. The use of the rose petals give connotations of love and danger and betrayal which could give you ideas of what the film is about which i really liked. The soundtrack is also really effective and its composition is really well timed and fits well with the action. This group took a lot of inspiration from other thrillers particularly with the photos which are very much like Memento and all the writing on the wall that the credits were in which was like Se7en. i really liked this opening and think it thoroughly deserved the A grade that it got. i hope our groups piece is as good as this.