FILM OPENING IDEAS (Psychological thriller)
IDEA 1 (The Neon Demon)
Personally I thought The Neon Demon trailer / opening scene was extremely mesmerising. This gave me the thought of pleasure and attraction. I came up with an aim, which was to pleasure the audience with mesmerising shots, allowing them to feel satisfied and attracted to the glamour from shots such as these.
The reason why I liked this idea in particular is the fact that it is unique, and is different from other psychological thriller films where they focus on ugliness and dull colours.
The main idea that makes this interesting and appealing is the contrast between beauty of the characters and their psycho personality. Another point is that the character and the audience feels the pleasure from both inside and out of the film. The character does something psychological that pleasures them, where as the audience feels pleasure from watching these beautiful shots.
Another film that is similar in a certain way to The Neon Demon is "Black Swan". Both of these films' opening scene is simple but mesmerising and delicate.
However the Black Swan has some features that are cliche. For instance the lack of colours that are used, and the use of the colour black to symbolise evil/dark. Moreover, the contrast of the white and black colour also symbolises the innocent and the bad. However, both of these films are to do with women's pleasure and their passion.
IDEA 2 (Orphan)
Me and Enid came up with the idea of an imaginary friend of a child. This child often goes to a "secret" place (the abandoned house) to meet and play with his/her imaginary friend.
We can show signs of the imaginary friend by including shots such as a swing swinging on its own, play ground facilities moving on its own.
As we want to keep our opening scene simple yet interesting, we can take close ups of simple + delicate shots, such as the chains of the swing. (These scenes were taken from the 'Play ground' scene of the film Orphan.) This will allow the audience to feel 'thrilled' because it is restricting them to know or see what is beyond the border of the frame, also making them eager to find out what is to come next. This keeps the audience entertained and engaged.
