Orren's opening idea - another late-ish post

Okay, so i wasn't in the lesson yesterday, but i saw the ideas the others came up with yesterday, and i thought that they were AWESOME!!! (our group is great! i really like these guys) and so i spent ages trying to come up with an opening, so here is what i came up with, and some notes on other things i looked at

This is my idea:
The opening credits start when the light in the darkroom is turned on (there would be a red filter used for the light), the door opens and the character comes in.
The camera then follows the character to a side in the darkroom where there are photographs developing in developing fluid, this would be good as an over the shoulder shot, whilst the character is walking to the side, he knocks into Polaroids that are hanging down, when these photographs are knocked, the camera cuts to a close up of them, swinging, and having an actor's name or the title of the film on the blank bit at the bottom, the pictures however will be of a mutilated body (recreated of course, not a real one), as the character get to the side he sits down and pulls out a book full of photos of murder scenes, from under another selection of books, and flicks through it, he also then starts writing in the book, there could be a use of over-laying (i think this is the name of the technique of placing one cut over another), and one of the cuts could be slightly sped up, to add a bit of confusion to the audience and to show that the character does this a lot, another way to add to the audience's slight confusion could be to have lots of short cuts that make the characters movements seem odd and wrong, as if there is something wrong with the character. On another side in the darkroom there could be torture devices that the character used on his victims, also on this side there could be a battered book that relates to why the character is killing people, this book could be a bible or a book that seems fairly well known and discusses people and the problems with them, this could be Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche or Paradise Lost, and these could show that the character has good reason to be killing people and it might be all for a greater good. On one of the walls there could also be a collage of photographs and post-it notes, this could show how big a collection of photos that the character has and how many people he has killed. There could also be a lot of extreme close-ups of the character's eyes and his hands, to give some mystery to the character, and we could also not have any shots showing the characters entire face or enough of his face to be able to tell who he is. There could also be a television set that shows a person locked up in a dungeon of the characters creation, this could give the impression that the character always has a victim.

I found that the opening credits for Se7en influenced my idea for the opening.

I'm not completely sure that i like my ideas for the opening credits, but this is the best that i have come up with so far.

Music that i found that could be used could be something that is fairly dark and a bit heavy, preferably from the metal genre, but not something that has a fast tempo and is very heavy or loud, it should be odd and mysterious and makes the audience feel slightly uncomfortable, like the remix of Closer by Nine Inch Nails in the Se7en opening credits. I think that Tool or Nine Inch Nails have songs that fit in this view (although i didn't explain it very well). Songs that i thought that could be used are:
Tool - Schism - about 2:50 minutes in to the song, well music video,
- The Grudge - 5 minutes + into the video,
Linkin Park - Breaking The Habit, but the tempo may be to fast and the song may not be dark enough,
- Somewhere I Belong
Nine Inch Nails - We're In This Together
- Closer, a remix of this was used in Se7en
- Burn, but I'm not completely sure about this song.

Hope you enjoyed reading this and found my ideas interesting.
Bye for now =]