Shutter Island - Opening Sequence
Thriller sequences such as the one from 'Shutter Island' will help us with our thriller opening sequence because due to the use of thriller conventions such as ambient sound, images and pace (editing) the opening sequence shows the start of a thriller film. By using similar features to this one we can help our target audience feel a similar way of tension and mystery within our thriller film.
The opening credits of 'Shutter Island' utilises many of the conventions typical of a thriller film. For example throughout the sequence ambient music is used giving a dreary sound suggesting tension and mystery, foreshadowing that throughout the film the audience will witness a storyline that is mysterious with lots of tension from each character allowing the audience to feel an automatic interest to the film. The pace of the sequence is slow, suggesting that what happens in the film is going to follow this pace and be mainly te building tension and waiting to find out what is really going.
In this film there is a use of flashback, where the film looks back into events that have previously happened surrounding the main character, set in an earlier time than the main story. This is an example of a key convention in thriller films. After looking into this film, we decided as a group that we were interested in this technique, and liked how it could intergrate two different scenarios into one. We also found that flashbacks tend to occur mostly in the opening sequences of films. This inspired us to use a flashback in the opening sequence of our film opening. We have various ideas that we are looking to use for our thriller film, and we feel the flashback ties in well with one of our inspired ideas of a supposed fugitive who is looking to leave their house quickly, and the flashback could be used to look at the characters troubled lifestyle, to perhaps infer why they are in this scenario in the first place
