Thriller openings

Batman: the dark knight

• Masks, suits, bag, using grappling hook • Bright city, daytime • Upbeat music • Everyone enters together, then shoot each other, all talking about a “joker”

unknown character, but is described then when all dead he appears as one of them • Tense atmosphere, action packed yet unsure what is really going on.• Use of low angle looking up at the joker creates sense of importance and tension • No text.• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqvbv-SB4bg

Seven

• Hand writing text • Uneasy music, distorted out of beat creates tension • Flashes of images of hands, newspaper cuttings, pictures, faces,

psychology equipment • Text flashes, gives crazy feel • Unsure what is happening, images don’t give a picture of what is too

come. • Music gets louder and more tense as credits continue. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k2gsEI34CE

Inception

• Dark vault, envelope switch, guns, action • Lots of shooting, music starts very up beat with the film • But tension is created by the confusion of what is happening, not sure

why he shot his partner • Mentions about “dreaming” • Lots of explosions and destruction • Ends with flooding but we see what is happening outside of dream,

unsure why or how it is happening seeing 3 people “Dreaming” • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqyfMlnxmmI