We also watched a presentation about another film opening, again discussing the same things. This presentation was done by Dom, Toby, George and Ben, they analysed the opening of 'Silence Of The Lambs' and explained many good points about the representations of various things within the opening. A few of the points they mentioned were:
- The first shot with the trees in the foreground that almost completely cover the background could show how the characters might be covering up their true side/inner feelings and what you can see doesn't reveal the complete personality
- There is a tracking shot which follows the person running through the forest, allowing the trees to some between the camera and the person creates the sense that we are secretly watching her and the trees are almost used as a form of cover to hide behind, i suppose this could also link with the other point
- The use of the obstacles that she has to go over on her track could be there to represent the challenges she has to overcome, also the lighting has been designed to make one side brighter than the other possibly relating to when she has defeated a particular challenge everything is better and brighter for her
- A good religious connotation was when she goes down to the cells that hold the bad criminals there is a red, glowing light present that could be a metaphorical representation of her going into hell because the criminals down there would be going to hell and the typical dangerous, firery colour is associated with that religious idea. As well as this they also noticed when she is actually down there how there is a white light shining down from the exit, this could be to say that she leaves this hell like area going back to heaven, well the 'good side'
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