Over the weekend I went to the cinema with some friends to see Daybreakers, also a Thriller. It's a great film full of action, suspense and thrills that had us jumping off our seats.
Outline of the beginning sequence
- Silence then bat flies at screen making loud screechy noise, making audience jump building unexpected tension.
- Starts with birds eye view of character, odd lighting suggests something extra ordinary close up of photographs of the small girl, eerie and cynical. sound – silence, sounds of pencil to paper , leaves note on her bed
- Dark room she opens door, light from outside creates sihloette of the girl. establishing shot of house and sunset, still silent.
- Audience see girls face, eyes prove theres something different about her, flashes back to letter. intense eerie music fades in getting louder building tension. close up on letter “never grow up!” “cant go on” music gets louder as sun appears non diagetic sound of girl screaming flashes back to character as she bursts into flames and disintergrates cut into darkness.
