FRIDAY THE 13th LESSON

Identity. James Marygold. (2003)

the Opening scene consists of around 80 Shots.
most of them going very Quickly flicking through like a note book animation. Each shot was about 3 seconds long but most of them were less than a second as i said before they flick through very, very quickly.

The first scene starts off with voices over the opening credit that fades on a black back ground. it then cuts to a close up of a tape recorder playing, (as you can see the tape wheels moving) the tape recorder is in focus and everything else in the Mise-en-scene. what you guess is coming from the tape recorder playing is a man's voice reading a poem and then another man's voice asking where he learnt that. the camera keeps cutting to other close up shots of the tape recorder, and random pictures of children's drawings, and photos of murdered people and suspicious forms. All covered up by diegetic Sound the whole way through, occasionally you hear the tape rewinding.
The opening scene also consists of a medium shot of a man talking about his past and looking at all the odd documents, pictures and tapes. Whilst the man is looking at all these things the credits come on slowly and flicker off leaving the odd letter. The first scean seems to end as the music stops and the screen cuts to a close up of a phone ringing.

Leon
Thriller opening research


‘Leon’ starts off with a quite flute as the camera scans across the sea and then as soon as the camera comes in view of the tree’s a natural sound track that reminds you of the jungle, then the opening credit’s start to come up. The sound track keeps going until, you see the sky line of the city and a mysterious sound starts to play introducing the viewer to the thriller and mysterious dangerous essence of the film almost instantly even though nothing serious has happened yet. The camera then after a glimpse of the city blink’s in to the streets of the city travelling like a car around the city. After the credit’s the camera, shows two men sitting at a table, one smoking and talking and the other with shades on and all you can see of the two men is the eyes also when you fist see them they are both speaking a different language. Then suddenly the man smoking say’s ‘Down to business’ and he starts to talk about a man referred as a fat bastard (the fat bastard is shown on a black and white photo graph, showing probably that the fat bastard is history or more likely soon will be.) and is telling ‘Leon’ (who is finishing a glass of milk) that he need’s to understand that he must not be seen again! And finishes off with are you free Tuesday? And Leon replies with ‘yes I am free Tuesday!’ and when Leon finishes the first words he say’s and finishes his glass of milk he slam’s it on the table (I thought that the milk is important as Leon is always drinking milk through the whole film) and a murderous thud introducing a classic thriller sound track! Enhancing that this character mean’s business and something thrilling is about to happen. The sound track continues until the view of the spiral stair case and the guy that peer’s over gets pulled down and there is a load scream! And there is a sudden halt in the music, as you hear the man screaming and when the screaming stop’s the camera view switches from the stairs to the man watching the screen’s and you see the screen’s turn off! The music start’s up again and the music goes really up beat as the man is running around the building and breathing really deeply