Group Discussion (My Birthday)

     Today was the day in class where we were put into groups to discuss our projects and how they are going so far. This was a very fun class as I got to learn more about what others are doing along with if I am on the right track or not. Honestly it was refreshing to hear positive things about my project and it made me feel overall less stressed. 

    Honestly I was the last person to speak in my group and I had very limited time, but from what I heard my idea seemed very unique and everyone in my group reassured me that this is a good idea for my film opening. 

However, I was speaking to my mom about my project as she likes to hear about my day and she told me it sounded like the one film "American Psycho", so know I have to go watch how they did there film opening and here it is below.

The opening scene is so unlike mine honestly nothing about it will help. I just thought since my mom recommended it I might as well watch. This opening introduces Bateman the psycho as a young polite guy and really he is a serial killer. The only thing that really signified killing was the close up of the strawberry dish which was extremely red, but other than that I got nothing. The only thing I could take away was the music because that is the style I am going for as well. The classic old instrumental music. 

I ended up rewatching to see if I missed anything that signified Bateman's future psycho-ness, and at the second 0:44 a knife comes down on the dish and the music kind of fades out into a knife sound. That is something I want to do as I may show the knife and then add the sound effect like that. The credits were very interesting as well as they were displayed on a white background. This type of film usually has darker colors, so I thought this was a very unique choice. I have yet to figure out how I am going to display my credits, but I have a small idea that is yet to be developed.

Well that's all for today next time I am most likely going to speak about credits as they are a more important part of the opening then you would imagine before watching tons of openings.