Yr 11 'THE UNSEEN FILM' OPENING

RESEARCH: DON’T LOOK NOW

I watched the opening of Don’t Look Now  (directed by Nicholas Roeg 1973). Its genre is thriller and the opening shows many thriller codes and conventions such as a sense of jeopardy, omens, match cuts between seemingly unrelated scenes that create a mystery, the use of symbolic colour codes, emotive soundtrack and powerful visual drama.

In the opening, …. (SCREENSHOTS HERE FROM THE FILM)

I think that we can make use of some of the filming and editing techniques used in Don’t Look Now because our film is also a thriller that draws on the supernatural. In our film, we hint at the existence of a ghostly child whose presence haunts the mansion. We plan to dress a child-like figure in a white sailor suit, the kind that upper class children of an earlier generation wore, and use him in the same way that Nicholas Roeg uses the child / dwarf figure dressed in red.

In our film, we will have made props of our protagonist, the photographer, looking through his file of photographs.