Silence of the lambs opening sequence.

The Silence of the lambs is yet another thriller movie. The opening sequence of the film reveals no suprisingly no sign of thriller category.

The Mise en Scene in the opening sequence is used effectively throughout the clip as it showed a sign of popularity and modern day life. The colouring is used to a high standard. It is set in a high key lighting to show that this opening sequence suprisingly contains no sign of thriller or gore at all. All we see is a girl doing exercise in the woods and then gets caught up by talking to another character. Unlike Se7en, we don't see any flash backs and cutaways in the clip. With the costume, it seemed fairly modern and casual so that we can tell this film was set not long ago.

The editing is used really well throughout the opening sequence in the clip. The beginning of the clip revealed long shot durations to show that we are only keeping an eye on a character or a certain important object. Near the end of the opening sequence, the shot durations tend to pick up the pace. This reveals something is about to happen which would make the audience want to get involved in the clip and ask questions such as 'What is going to happen?' or 'Why is the shots for the opening sequence getting so quick?' There were a couple of cutaways in the clip where it revealed one location and then completely changed into another location.

The camera work was used effectively throughout the opening sequence of the clip. An example I can give to back up this point could be the pan right at the start of the clip. This part of the opening sequence revealed one long shot duration take place with a pan show the girl running through the forest and climbing over an obstacle and stopped running to talk to the man. We then see a over the shoulder shot with  the building she was going to. This is an important shot because we can then tell where this character is going. We then come into a couple of close ups with the character so that we can recognise her personality more fluently and therefore getting to know the characters role a bit more.

The sound used in the clip was used to a high standard. An example to back up this point could be the background music being played in the opening sequence. This piece of music we hear being played seems suprisingly pieceful considering that this is supposed to be a thriller genre. The music is at a low level of dynamics and it is therefore representing no sign of thriller but only piecefulness. Unlike Se7en, we this time hear some of the characters speak. I have figured out that both films are not only different towards their thriller opening sequences, but also have a different sort of voice context by letting one set of character speak in one clip and then one set of characters not speaking in the other clip.

The titles are also used effectively throughout the opening sequence for silence of the lamb. The titles seem to just pop up instantly to give you that element of surprise. This could make the sudience feel shocked and make them get even more into the film. The font that this clip uses is not serif so that it is not a serious film. Some of the titling seems to fade in and then fade out again so that this film has a number of different titling effects.