24 Opening Credits Season 1/ Repulsion /Carrie

24

As the main theme for our treatment was that the main character is obsessed with time I looked at the opening titles for 24 to see how we could possibly present the opening titles for our opening sequence. As 24 have a similar font to what we wish to use in our opening sequence, I thought that perhaps I could look at that opening sequence for Inspiration. The opening titles I thought could be an option for our sequence as they focus on the time and the clock however I thought that the choice of the shots of the characters near the end of the 24 opening could not be used as a potential option in out opening sequence.

I also looked at parts of Misfits to see how they portrayed the characters obsession with time and dates, however, because the character seemed more mysterious and heroic I felt that we could not use this portrayal of the character to our advantage.

Repulsion/Carrie

After this I thought about looking at openings that were set in a school environment and then with the character in the school environment presented as an outsider (Psychological thriller openings).I looked at the opening and trailer for Roman Polanski’s Repulsion and watched Brian de Palma’s Carrie

after looking at the trailer and opening of repulsion I thought the trailer would be more useful to us because like repulsion, we too could used an extreme close up to become uncomfortably close with the character, or more so the objects around our character.

We could possibly use a fade as did Polanski during the trailer where he makes the shot of the close up of the main characters face and the underlay of the collaboration of shots featuring different men; this possibly connotes what things that are going on In her mind.We wanted to show what our character was thinking about in our opening and could possibly use Polanski's editing technique to show it

I also watched Carrie, even though it is more a horror than a thriller it Involves the key themes that we wish to Involve In our opening sequence, such as a school girl who is an outside and who is obsessed. In the opening for Carrie the establishing shot is clearly set on school grounds showing the environment that the problems are going to occur, it then focuses on the main character showing her as the loner of the school ; we also want to do this , we wish to show the school grounds as the area all the problems are going to happen and to show the lead character as a loner however Instead of establishing the school area then focusing In the character, we wish to focus on the clock and then zoom out to show that the area Is an school area. De Palma also pans across the locker room showing everyone being friendly to each other, emphasising Carrie’s isolation which Is a possible way we could too show that our main character Is an outsider .

Sound

When considering these different things I thought about the sound in the lovely bones and how the dramatic scene where the girl is sneaking into the murderer’s house the littlest sound is made amplified making the audience’s heart pump. I thought we could use this as a way showing the ticking in our main characters head by amplifying the different clocks ticking and beeping.