Inspiration By Alfred Hitchcock

http://borgus.com/hitch/openings.htm - This link was a godsend when it came to finding out what the master of thrillers himself used in his opening sequence and gives us an insight into why he includes these things and how I can incorperate these points into my own opening sequence.

Some key points I took out of this page was the use of skylines or headlines. I initially wanted to use the garage and only the garage for my opening but after reading this information, I have found that the use of a daylight or outdoor surrounding accompanied by light hearted music (which in our case is going to be the whistling of oranges and lemons) is an interesting way to open a thriller of any sort as the contrast itself causes suspense.

This is a screenshot image from the opening sequence of the thriller, panic room. It shows an ordinary American city and there is no indication as to what is going to happen or that there is any suspence involved but in the clip below, you will see how music is used to make some suspence and create an atmosphere for the opening of this film.


Another interesting point I came across was the use of written text. I am going to be editing in titles to my opening sequence during the editing process and am going to be using a font simular to the one used in the film 'SE7EN' as is going to be showing mise-en-scene related to the objects around the character including books (leather) and the tools and weapons we are going to be showing.