I thought each individual opening was different in their own ways. Day of Jackal was very old and i found it hard to analyse as my group had sound to deal with, and their was hardly any sound but us as group put it to it being an old thriller, compared to the other two openings. I thought that this opening wouldn't keep the audience sitting on the edge of the sofa as much as the others, however it still gave tension to the audience and a slight "what will happen next?" question. It also had sounds which none of the others had such as, car horn and traffic. This was more realistic sounds than the others as the others had sounds that had a lot of tension in and the audience wouldn't necessary no what the sounds were, which is what made it more suspicious and a nervous feeling to the audience.
The one which i chose to analyse was "Seven", the one which we did in class. I chose this because this is the one which made me feel as if i wanted to watch the whole film as i hadnt seen it before.
Seven had a lot of low lighting and had used a dim lamp to which gave the small amount of lighting, i felt this was to give a secret, hidden, mysterious effect which automatically catch the readers and makes them want to watch more althought they might not realize this.
It had very quick cuts and flashes of mainly close-ups. This made it seem like there was a lot going on and much more to find out, therefore makes the readers sit and watch to see what happens. The close-ups were of lots of photographs, this engages the audience as they want to know who the photo is of. Also there was close-ups of very fine detailed objects such as, a hands of a person with bandages on, needle work, books and writing(which u cant see what says), scribbles other writing and peoples faces. all this gives a strong impact on the rest of film as to what will happen next.
Red filter was used over the camera, this indicates blood and thinking into to it, it goes with all the photographs and the camera work that went on.
The credits had an unusual font which looked scratchy and they moved in quick reactions. The font almost looked hand written, this gives it a more personal, suspicious effect as it looked like real written and went well with what we saw from the opening.
There was background music through this which was very mysterious and changed slightly through it. It went well with the credits and movements in the opening. Now and again i heard screaming and weird sounds. Straight away i thought, well who's screaming and why? It was done to purposely make the audience think what i thought. From this point onwards by putting the things u notice in the opening together you can tell that something bad will happen.
At the opening sequence where the dim lighting was just before the opening credits, it was very quite but with a metramoan and had a continuous clicking sound which represented time getting on and going away. As the man was just listening to it, repeatedly, it made him seem mental or mad, maybe something was wrong with him, however we know we was intelligent as there was a close-up of him putting his glasses down.
Overall i thought this was the best opening out of the three as it was fast, showed a lot, and made me really interested but suspicious, i will have to watch the whole thing.
Very effective, well done
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