We study film openings as background research for our own production.
The opening of Don't Look Now (dir. Nicholas Roeg) is a classic. The film is often voted as 'best thriller film' and its opening sets the scene, introduces the main characters, provides a shock and establishes enigma.
- The film cuts between a couple working quietly in their sitting room and their small daughter playing outside
- imagery of Venice, church stained glass and a dwarf dressed in red create disorientation
- imagery is used to foreshadow the death of the daughter as the father's cut stains a photo slide with his blood
- the colour red links the daughter, blood and the dwarf
- enigma
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