My aim is to create a very dark, angsty mood with my title sequence; I want the horror and thriller themes to be evident in every single shot I use. However I don't want it to be jam-packed full of cliches so as well as taking inspiration from other films, I do have a very clear idea of what elements of my own style I can incorporate.
The opening scene will be set in a boys bedroom however it will be dimly lit and the main focus will be on the boy himself and his desk, which will be littered with photographs. The boy's costume and general appearance will connote his age via mise en scene as the rest of the room won't be included in the shots and the desk itself will be clear bar the photographs and a small mug that says 'Brother'; this is what will clue the audience in to the relationship between the boy and the other character in my piece: his missing sister. We then see that amongst the photographs, there's a missing person poster as well as photographs taken by the police of footprints and blood splatters. I want to include most of the credits here as the photographs will be polaroids, I want to scribble the credits on the bottom. I also want to use flashback style shots by focusing on certain photographs - possibly one of her with her friends or one of her at prom - and having a flashback to when that picture was taken and then back to the picture itself. This is where all of the credits will happen before I move onto the opening scene. I want to portray this character as a concerned brother who is teetering on the side of obsession over finding his sister; I want him to be slightly scruffy and dishevelled in appearance to connote that he hasn't been eating properly or washing as he's been so focused on studying these photographs. There will then be a black screen as the camera does a 180 pan from the boy to the darkness in his room.
Then I will have the opening scene which will open in a garage with a single lightbulb on a string on. I'm taking inspiration for movies like 'Saw' and 'Hostel' with this choice of location and I want it to appear as dirty and grimy as possible to add to the horror. There will be a multitude of shots of dripping water, dirty old saws, flies and all the stuff that connotes horror and gore however I want to intermix them with shots of normal things like close ups of paint tin labels, lawnmowers and screwdrivers so show that whoever owns the garage is yes a pyschopath, but also does the same things that you and I do and owns the same things as we do: he is just like us. I took this idea from the title sequence of 'Se7en'. We will then see a shot of a teenage girl, covered in dirt and generally battered in appearance, opening her eyes for the first time. This is the missing girl and the audience will realise this from the photographs shown previously. She will struggle to get up and collapse to her knees before looking around frantically. She will then suddenly cry out in pain as she struggles to get up once more and she notices she's wearing somebody else's ripped old clothes. She lifts up the bottom of her shirt to reveal a bloody, infected wound on her abdomen. She starts to cry before the door behind her flies open and that's where my sequence will end. Very dark, I know!!
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