Movie Opening PreviewsKAT, DANAELI, JAMES, RILEY

Genre

Crime-ThrillerOur movie is going to be

a crime-thriller based film. We looked at several films that are that genre, and decided on three films that would influence our movie the most.

A thriller is a film that focuses on an exciting and suspenseful event, usually revolving around a mystery. In a crime-thriller, this mystery is usually a felony, such as murder.

Films Studied Taken (2009), directed by Pierre Morel

The Silence of the Lambs (1991), directed by Jonathan Demme

A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014), directed by Scott Frank

Taken

The film opens with a home video. The music here is a soft piano which portrays happy times. Then, the film cuts to the protagonist awakening. The scene shows a dark room which contributes to the mystery of the whole film. Throughout the title cards, the words fade- and slide-in. At the end of the two minuets the protagonist proceeds to get into a car and drive to some sort of pawn shop looking for a karaoke machine.

The Silence of the Lambs

The film opens up with a shot of the woods and a foggy mountain in the background. The names started to fade in and fade out. The text was black on white which made them really pop to the viewer. The music sounded like violins, giving it a sort of mysterious and sad vibe. It then continues on to show a young female doing some sort of endurance work out by running/climbing the mountain. The first two minutes then finish with the female continuing her run and the names slowly stop fading in.

A Walk Among the Tombstones

The opening of “A Walk Among the Tombstones” begins with a black screen and police radio activity in the background. Then, dialog begins. The black fades to a shot of a shadowed face of a grown man in a car talking to the passenger about some sort of operation. The passenger then exits the car and goes into the bar and sits down at a booth. As the first two minutes comes to an end, the bar tender places two shots of alcohol and one cup of coffee in front of the man. Police radio activity continued through the entirety of the scene.

Conclusion

All films (eve those of the same genre) are very different. Some start out very active, such as A Walk Among the Tombstones, with gunfire, whilst others like The Silence of the Lambs, which stated out very peacefully with a woman on a jog.