Sound

We have a sound track over the top of our opening sequence that is emotional. The soundtrack is produced by 'Kai Engle' and we managed to find a soundtrack that reflective the correct emotions which is still copyright free. This reflects the mood of our main character; sad and depressed. We have also decided to mute the first half of the background sounds when he is in the house. As soon as he opens the door to go outside, the audience will then be able to hear the background sounds. This is effective as it shows the silence in his personal life without his wife but the continuity of the people around him lives, which emphasises his isolation.

Adjustments to our story board

Our main story is the same however we have decided to not include the flashbacks. The main reason for this is that we want the main character to be the man, not the women who has died. Including the flashbacks could put the audiences attention onto the lady who has been killed which takes away the sympathetic feelings towards the man which is one of our main aims. To replace the flashbacks, they're will be more zoom ins to the evidence of the crime scene to create more mystery and tension.

Prop Pictures

 These pictures show the main props we will use in our opening sequence. The newspaper tells the audience that there has been a murder, therefore setting up the story and setting the mysterious scene. This is a crucial prop as otherwise the audience might not understand what he is investigating about. These ideas are backed up by a criminal report which is shown below. This suggests to the audience the seriousness and the reality of the murder. Finally the prop of a letter with a husband and wives name on is very significant as it shows the man has/had a wife. This is not too effective on its own but it is when the audience sees an empty space on the breakfast table. This immediately suggests she is the one who has been murdered.

Moods

One of our main aims is to create intense feelings in our opening sequence. We want to create a dark and saddened mood to represent the mans emotions. An effective way to do this is to use pathetic fallacy. Obviously we can't change the weather to fit the day we are filming but we want to make it seem like gloomy, rainy weather to strongly show his deep emotional thoughts.

We also want to create the mood for the audience, the main one is sympathy. By setting out the table for two but only showing on person there creates huge sympathy as we are aware he has lost someone close to him. We can also portray this by showing the wife's wedding ring as it shows extreme heart break. At the same time as presenting sympathy, the moods of mystery need to be portrayed. We can do this through the use of the crime evidence props. These props will show the audience that a murder has happened and he is trying to solve it. This creates tension and mystery.

Memento

Shown below is the opening scene from a movie called Memento. This has heavily been inspiration for our idea for our own opening sequence. The piece starts with the directors and some of the main actors in the film along with a quiet, eery sound track to create tension for the audience. It then shows the name of the film followed by a fade out and a close up of someone holding a photograph: we immediately assume this is the protagonist as this is the first person we see. The music the increases in pitch to grab the audiences attention. The picture shows someones death scene, this entices the audience to question who it is? and if they're innocent or some sort of revenge to someone. The man holding the photo then shakes it which makes the disappear. The camera then follows the hand holding the photo as it moves. There is then zoom in and close ups of some evidence laying on the floor, this indicates that they're has been a murder. The scene then edits to black and white suggesting depression, this creates sympathy for him as it hints the persons who murder scene it is, is someone close to him. The emotions that are presented here, are very much similar to what we want our audience to feel after watching this. After watching this opening scene it makes me want to watch on as there are so many unanswered questions. This is a strong aim for us to do with ours too.

Title Sequence

We made a practise title sequence to see what font and colours we want to use. We thought the timing, the fades and the font suits our genre of film:

Mood Board

The image below shows the mood board for our opening task. The mains themes we are dealing with is heart break and the want for justice and revenge. This creates a dark, mysterious atmosphere with the emotions of loss and heart break involved. Through soundtracks, body language and facial expression, the audience should be made to feel sympathy towards the husband who has lost his wife.