Thursday 17 January 2013

Opening sequences - 2


This an extract from the opening of Trial and retribution which shows how a woman returns home and is murdered. When the woman returns home she goes upstairs and hears a noise in one of the rooms, she walks into the room and smiles, as she seems to know who it is. The scene then shifts to the house with flashes of a scuffle going on between the woman and the person she encountered in the room. She is then pushed down the stairs and there is a sound of smashing before the scene changes to her parents coming home and finding her dead.
I liked the split shots that were used at 0:53 to show the family returning in their car from 2 points of view, I feel this better established the scene to the audience. I also liked how the credits were presented at the sides of the main picture and in between. This didn't quite fit the mood of the sequence but it still seemed to work in a simple way.
The sequence creates a lot of enigma for the audience, especially when the cyclist passes by at 0:10. the enigma is created as it seems to be late at night, you can't see the cyclists face and he looks directly at the house that the woman is in.

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