Film Opening Inspirations by Larissa Brown

The setting of our opening sequence is a similar setting to Twilight's

Mise en scene:
Twilights opening sequence has inspired our company's use of mise en scene with the use of trees, grass, sticks and twigs contribute to the enigma we're trying to create. As these objects can be considered to be quite dangerous it helps establish what genre we're using. Our genre being thriller/horror, the low key lighting illustrates the danger and denotes the that someone is in a harmful situation and its supposed to make the audience feel a sense of fright. The costumes use of dark colours contribute to how the characters are feeling; revenge, fright, anger etc.

Camera:
We've used a similar establishing shot of the nature in the setting. It sets the time and establishes the weather. We filmed in cold conditions as our other inspirations of horror/thriller films have similar weather conditions. The use of high key lighting and warm weather conditions would subvert to our product 'Hunted' because it offers a positive image, the representations of thrillers and horrors are to be negative, dark. As the character in our opening sequence is a female, the camera shoots her at low angles to sow her position in the film as timid and vulnerable.

Editing:
In Twilight's opening sequence they've used a variety of jump shots and fast motion