Through research, we found that many films within the "Thriller/Mystery" genre have a lot of jumpcuts and darkly lit rooms and scenes. I thought that this was a very effective way of create suspense within the scene and thus allow the audience to feel a sense of uneasiness. Also I found that the lighting does hold another purpose, other than to highlight the room or person. The lighting can be used to tell the audience various information for example, if the director were to use high-key lighting in a scene, it would mean that the people/objects within it are happy, and reliable however if they used low-key lighting, it would give a different atmosphere - shady and untrustworthy.
We tried to implement this into our opening sequence by using high-key lighting during the lane scene to show that the couple walking past, are happy and perfect; however in the scene where Cara picks up the bottle the lighting changes to become cooler and darker. Due to this lighting change, it gives the connotation that the thing she's about to do is bad or that our protagonist is thinking something "evil/bad"
Finally, we decided to place the title of the final piece at the end of the opening sequence and then leave it against a black background give it importance by highlighting it as the only thing within frame. We this is a usual occurrence in most films where they would put the title after the opening sequence and sometimes against a black background. In the "House of Wax" the editor added the title sequence after the opening on a black background - this being a "horror/thriller" movie, we felt that this was a really good idea to use in our opening sequence.
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