Don't look now opening

During class, we decided to look at what is now known as "Britain's favorite thriller) Don't look now. Despite being a very old film being made back in 1973, there were some very powerful chords that the film struck and it allowed me to generate ideas for the thriller opening. 

It's use of the countryside as a backdrop was something in particular I took a note of. Due to its rural nature, the countryside is something that can be used quite effectively when viewing horror/thriller movies. I decided to take this into account as the area around our school depicts a lot of woodland like areas. The opening also displayed many mixed emotions throughout. There was always a sense of dread and fear throughout the opening as you feel very aware that something bad is going to happen to the main characters. I wanted to create this through our movie. We did this in a slightly different way using the old 1950s pop song as effective backdrops for feeling this dread. The movie also has some very effective images such as Donald Sutherland's character pulling the girl out of the lake. This also helped us generate character during the pre production stages of the movie. Whilst there are no children in the movie, the main female character has lost her husband, much like the parents losing their children in this movie. The opening was highly effective in teaching me in how to create atmosphere in a film opening and how it should immediately grab the audience in.