Inspirations for opening sequence- Miss Miller

Inspiration is vital before you create something as it can give you ideas and in this case it shows you the elements and conventions you need to include to make your own thriller which will make my final product as successful as possible. You can take inspiration from other successful thrillers and throughout my planning for the opening sequence of my thriller I viewed various films which showed me what conventions is vital to include to make my thriller good. I got my inspiration by going on YouTube and watching various clips from successful thrillers. Throughout analysing many clips from various thriller films, I have found out how to use techniques such as; sound, conventions, cinematography and editing. From viewing other thriller films I used this information for my own thriller and I now know how to create a very effective opening scene for my own thriller film using the elements I found in thriller films I researched. By doing this research I have developed this knowledge and without out it the planning process of my scene would have been found a lot harder than what it was with the research being taken.

I got inspiration from Halloween in Halloween there is the use of hidden identity this is common convention I found in the thrillers I researched about, in Halloween the killer is wearing a mask in which covers his identity to the victim, this creates mystery and suspense. In our opening sequence our wanted to include a killer to be hidden we done this by having a killer as a demon so you can't see the killer at all this will help the audience feel even more tense. We believe this will help create an enigma which will entertain the audience as they are unaware of how the killer looks, therefore they will be curious and engaged as to what will happen to the female victim.

I also found that sound was really important  in thrillers as by watching a thriller clip with no sound and then watching one with sound, I found the one with sound was a lot more scary, I found sound can effect the atmosphere on audience hugely finding this out I wanted to make sound a major factor in my own thriller as I now know it can make the audience tense by having jerky sounds the research for sound really brought to life just how important sound would be in my opening scene. The clip I had researched about was from Sinister, the clip used music which really got the audience on the edge of their seat as it was sharp and quick paced and was very effective as the music created an atmosphere for the whole scene. I will use this in my opening scene to do the same but, also to justify and build up key moments to the audience so they are in suspense. 

I got inspiration From shutter island the inspiration I got from this was the use of Low Key Lighting. In this shutter island I watched a scene where it shows very clearly how the changing of lighting from High to Low can have a powerful effect on the audience, the use of low key lighting has a big effect on the audience by creating an enigma, the mood of the scene is transported from a average mood to a deeply depressing mood mainly due to the sudden change of lighting. So taking inspiration from this I should consider having a sudden change in lighting even more sudden than the one in the scene so I have a more thrilling effect on the audience. I also found in many thrillers that a use of a blonde female victim is evident in thrillers blonde females are shown as weak and vulnerable so I want to include this stereotypical convention into my thriller aswell.