My film opening will consist of a mixture of two very different scenarios cut together, one is a slow, peaceful and relaxed scene of a boy sitting in a forest, listening to music and relaxing. The other is the same boy but beaten up, cuts and bruises with dirty and torn clothes, running as fast as he can down a street, sliding over car bonnets and swerving around people, trying to get away from something.
The opening will start with the credits which I will choose carefully to create a dark, serious and tense atmosphere and it will fade out to a still, quiet scene with subtle quiet noises such as the wind in the trees and birds singing as the shot fades in, a bright shot of a forest in daylight with a bench in the centre. The boy walks over slowly and sits on the bench, putting earphones in and listening to music. I will edit the music in over the top as a non-digetic sound and try to make it sound as if it is coming through his headphones.
It will then cut to the next scenario quickly of the same boy in the chase scene. This scene will consist of very quick cuts from quite extreme low or high angles to create the sense of confusion as the boy runs quickly navigating obstacles and dodging the odd person. The music for this scene will cut into the fastest, loudest part of the soundtrack I have chosen to make it seem as if the viewer has been thrown in to this scenario with no idea what is going on and make the viewer feel like they are being thrown around, wondering why the character is running.
Quite suddenly it will cut back to the scene in the forest where the main character, the boy, is still sitting down, listening to music and relaxing, creating the idea that the boy is oblivious to the horror that is happening/has happened/is going to happen by using extreme opposites. The sudden calmness after the fast paced, loud chase makes gives the viewer time to relax again and form questions in their mind as to what is going on.
These cuts continue with no explanation as to what is happening and how these events are linked until a cut of the person on the bench changes slightly. The person checks their watch and sighs, putting their headphones away and pulling out something from their pocket, typing into it and placing it on the bench before walking out of shot.
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