Before starting our opening sequence, our group looked at typical conventions that a Psychological Thriller genre included to give us the understanding and background knowledge to create and include in our opening sequence. We considered all the possible attributes to the genre and tried to create an effective opening sequence around them.
COLOURS USED- In our opening sequence, we edited and used colours often to help emphasise different stages and emotions throughout our piece. During the start of our opening sequence, we used no added colourations, whereas during the flashback sequence of the protagonists previous night we used added darkness and a yellow colour filter. We did this intentionally, to help create a visual understanding of the difference in the protagonists state of mind and well being from the night before to the morning after. We decided on the colour filter yellow, as we felt this colour was most effective in emphasising the characters disorientation from her mind and body and was a great colour to used to show the effect of drug use. We added darkness to the parts of our sequence where the mood is changed and our protagonist starts "tripping out" and becomes scared and paranoid. Again we did this to emphasise the girls state of mind and help give a visual understanding between her mood change from happiness to fraughtness and the change in atmosphere from disorientation to danger.
LIGHTING USED- As we wanted to give off the effect that our opening sequence was filmed at dusk and wanted to create shadows and tone in our filming, we filmed at Twilight time during the day- just before the day turned into night. This natural lighting gave us clear, yet darkened filming and also gave a great tone to our chosen setting. The lighting on the trees gave a dim, shaddowed effect and was exactly what we wanting to use during filming. As our sequence includes a mood change to danger when our character becomes scared in the dark, we had to find a suitable way to portray this lighting effectively through our shots. Due to not gaining any clear shots in total darkness, we decided to take a chance when editing our piece together and add a darkness filter to the chosen parts where the mood changes. We were not sure if the added filter would create exactly what we were wanting or even suit the clip, but after experimenting we found that it worked greatly and did help set the tone of danger and disarray to our mood change shots. When filming the shot where our character physically takes drugs, we used bright lighting and blur to help again show the difference in staTe of mind and also the difference in setting.
CAMERA MOVEMENT USED- We used a range of different camera angles and movements throughout our opening sequence to help add to the intensity of our plot. At the start of our sequence we used wide establishing shots, showing our main protagonist as the centre of the screen from different angles. We felt doing this was effective, as it gave the sense of our character being a victim and produced an automatic eery atmosphere to our sequence. During the flashback part of our sequence from the girls previous night, we used many different types of camera angles and movement. When portraying in the flashback sequence the girls disorientation and happiness, we used many stable camera shots, but within the shot edited the timing to half speed or triple speed. This added to the visual understanding of our characters unstablility and also added to the wierd distortion of our sequence. In contrast to this, when it came to the mood change to danger in our sequence we used again different camera movement and angles. We used handicam, when the girl was running, to show a more realistic understanding of the girls rush and emotions whilst running through the woods and also used many close ups on her face to again emphasise the emotions present. We used canted angles when showing the mood change and also swayed the camera alot when filming point of view shots of her running to show how disorientated the character was from her body. We felt this contrast in camera movement created a clear segregation in the mood change the girl had undergoed whilst under the influence of drugs and also emphasised greatly our storyline.
GROWING SENSE OF DANGER USED- Throughout our clip we gradually built up the suspense and atmosphere intensity to help the audience understand and feel a growing sense of danger was present. We started off using the camera stable and with very little movement when establishing our setting then changed to canted camera angles and edited in darkness to help the audience understand that danger was becoming present. We then started adding in fast paced shots of the character running, building up more and more the speed of the shots to emphasise the suspense and disarray. We used sharp cuts between shots instead of fading to again help understand that danger and rush was occuring and also added a non-diagetic sound of a heartbeat becoming louder and louder to again add the the mise-en-scene and genre of our sequence. Heavy breathing and fast editing again added to the sense of danger we were trying to produce throughout the sequence.
-Comparision image between drug based Phsycological Thriller Shrooms and our media product.
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