RESEARCH : DON'T LOOK NOW

Don't Look Now was voted the best thriller; even though this is an older piece in 1973, the cinematography and screenplay was outstanding. This opening will be useful to help prepare and give editing techniques and cinematography to use. 

The opening slowly starts with the children playing outside whilst the parents are inside leisurely relaxing. The setting has a quick turn around when the young girl down in the back garden pond in her red jacket. Throughout the opening scene the directors use motivated edits. These edits can imply that the parents neglect their children and they are the cause of the incident. One motivated edit that stood out to me was when the young girl was wearing the red coat and drowning in the pond, the parents inside spilled red ink that spread out on a photo he was examining. The colour red suggests death, panic and danger, and this cause him to run outside as he got a eerie inkling. From this, it can be showed to have an supernatural suspension.  

The film cuts between Laura and John and between close ups of the slides which can be used as actual representation of reality. Whilst John observes the slides Laura observes the frozen lake which foreshadows the later death. As John looks at the slides this can be interpreted the fabricated representation of space, this establishes the film's investigation of the gap between perception and reality.  Perception in this opening can be what we see may not represent what is actually there,the photograph. The frozen lake can show that there is only partly represented by what we see.

This concept of representation and reality can be a useful contrast to go in depth within my up-coming short film. It will hugely attract audiences as it isn't common within short films and this will stand out.