RESEARCH- students film opening

Students Film Opening

The students film opening i looked at was 

"STROKE".

Sound:

The sound used at the beginning of the opening sounds like a a record being continuously scratched while the first set of titles are coming up, this creates a creeping atmosphere, the non diegetic sound is strongley edited. When the titles fade off the screen the sound suddenly stops what gives the viewer a tense athmosphere; they have edited the sound to fit in with the titles for example, when the production team title flickers the sound is jumpy. When the filming of the opening starts a heavy violen non-digetic sound appears, the music is slow but at the same time very loud and statmented which now gives a mysteroius athmospher as the viewer is unsure in what to expect.

Mise En Scene:

The mise en scene is  quite mimimal but proves the point it is trying to make, we first see a glass of water with a paint brush being mixed in it, the red paint that comes off the brush and mixes with the water instanlty made me think of blood, this is becase of how slow it was being mixed and i could tell that there is already a strange mood set, this contines for roughly 10secs untill all of the water turns red. We then see a paint pallet being held with a distinctive red paint on it, the red stands out because everything else is in a gray scale. The title if the film comes up in white paint stroke wrighting whilst a red paint stroke is being painted behind it, again symbolysing a blood mark. We knowit is symbolysing this because of the following shot which is a person wiping there hand over there mouth and there leaving a red stain, it seems as if the expression on the persons face is worried as you would be woth blood on your hands. After seeing a selection of home painted pictures with alot of the colour red used it makes us think that the person could be innicoent. The whole opening is in grey scale except the red what tells us that it is a important colour in the film. 

(this is where the glass of water gets filled with red paint)

Camera:

the first shot we see of the glass in a mid shot with it to the right of the screen, this dosent tell us much about what is going to happen, we then mid/close up of the paint pallet leading our eye to the blob of red paint. While the title of the film is coming up we get a close up of the red brush mark being made, this create quite a scary mood as we think the red represents blood. When the person is shown we get a extreme close up of their mouth where the red mark has been made this is becasue it could be a clue to the rest of the movie. When we see the paintings it is a mid/close up and pan's across them so that our eye leads through them and makes us want to contine looking through them. We get another close up of someones head as the camera pan's down there face, this is used so we can see concentration in his eyes and the reflection of him painting through the glasses. The camera then goes onto a birds eye view shot of painting materials, this shot is used so that it looks like a crime scene and susspicious. 

(this is the birds eye view)

Editing: 

There is a lot of editing used in this opening, the first peice of editing we see is that everying has been converted into grey scale apart from the colour red, after the first shot the second shot faids in what is a transition the second shot also faids out to introduce the next, this continues through all the shots. 

(this is the transition from one shot to another)