Research other similar films

Our opening is sub genre; crime thriller, and as there is little examples which explore crime thriller, our ideas are hard to base on examples as crime often ends pushing into horror thriller.
See below examples which are similar to ours and similar to our sub genre.



Malcolm X uses the idea that we wish to use. The phone call will be backed by a black screen/still picture where credits come in. This enables the audience to concentrate on the phone conversation. This then cuts to music with action. This is similar to how Malcolm X is narrating while it cuts to action.



Cleaner has a opening which uses the villain as the narrator, who states grim things in crime scenes. The opening is set with dark lighting and low angle mysterious shots but is lightened by Samuel L Jackson's voice. The opening is also set with contrapuntal music which lightens the dark setting.

Things to bare in mind:

• Possible contrapuntal music
  
• Dark setting
  
• Little action during part we want audience to concentrate on.
• Narrator telling story when action is being played.
• Mise en scene - Lighting, dark gloomy to put across the dull mood. - Costume, for example suit for news correspondent. - Sound i.e contrapuntal or dark
  
• Be careful not to make opening move to horror.
• verity of camera angles/shots which put across the darkness.
• use transitions which wont make it look tacky, i.e no dissolves. possible mainly fade in/out
• alter the news broadcast to have strip at bottom