Film Opening - Inspiration

When deciding on a film opening, we watched some clips in class of somefilm openings from two different films, one was 'The Silence of the Lambs' and 'Arlington Road' and this gave us an idea to make the opening shocking or to place a lot of enigma codes. Another influence for our idea was the film 'Se7en' by David Fincher, this film is dark and gritty and also quite psychologically demanding. As this made for a powerful film we wanted to follow this.

For our opening credits we use blood dripping played in reverse as the titles go over the top. We got this idea from something similar in 'Let the Right One In'. It seemed like quite and odd and disturbing opening as seeing something like blood and moving up instead of down is unnatural and would reflect the film as a whole.

We also wanted to make this film quite vivid and gory to make an impact on what the audience remembers, similarly in the opening of 'Arlington Road', this lead us onto thechoice of using Twisted Pictures as out distribution company. This company are famous for the 'Saw' franchise, and so we wanted people to recognise what kind of film this might be.