Thriller opening - Killbill - Claire

Kill bill –

The opening scene starts with a woman lying on the floor, covered in blood with a veil on her head. All you hear is her crying. It’s in black white. BCU shot of her from an eyelevel angle. You can’t see much setting. The lighting is bright on one side, one side of her face is shadowed. There’ a sound bridge of someone walking in towards her. This was done to create enigma and a shocking/ disturbing atmosphere. This would catch the attention of whoever is watching as it’s a very in your face opening scene. 

The next shot is of a man walking. CU of his feet. Black and white colouring, lots of shadowing, bright light from one side. Sound of the footsteps and floor board creaking. This creates suspense, because of the unknown.

 It then goes back to her lying on the floor, still in black and white with half her faced shadowed, covered in blood and with the veil on. Her breathing is heavier, you can see his feet by her head. She’s crying and he starts talking. It remains as a BCU, eyelevel shot on her for this. This creates enigma and shows the power of the man by not revealing who he is.

 

The man bends downs and wipes the woman’s face with a handkerchief with the name ‘Bill’ on it. You can hear him talking and her heavy breathing / crying. The colouring and lighting remains the same with black and white, and half-light and so does the shot size and angle, BCU and eyelevel. You can see he has a watch on and he is fairly old from the look of his skin. Which creates mystery and questions as to who is Bill, what does he want, did he hurt her, does she know him, ect.

This goes on for 57 seconds.

As she moves her head, and speaks for the first time she’s shot. The lighting is still dark on one side of her face, still in black and white, you can hear the sound of a gun being loaded and ready to be fired.  It’s still a BCU of her at eyelevel. As the trigger is pulled the gunshot noise is used as a graphic/ sound match and the titles come in. This is a powerful way of getting the audience’s attention because as she just announced the baby is he, he killed her, why? Why would anyone do that? It makes the viewer more intrigued.