For my film noir opening title sequence (OTS), I will be working with Pip Evanson and Abbie Hampson. I have worked with these people previously, and found that we work well and effectively as a team.
We have decided that our film noir will be horror based. Many of the initial ideas we developed were devised through taking inspiration from psychological, supernatural horrors such as 'The Woman in Black'.
Our OTS will open with a girl hanging from a tree. Accompanying this will be the sound of a rocking chair creaking. A shadow will then appear in the corner of the shot, with the figure looking out of a window towards the girl. The camera will zoom through the window towards the tree, before going into an extreme close up on the girls face, focusing specifically on her eyes. The titles will then fade in. The following shot will be another extreme close up, this time of the girl when she was alive.
There are a number of film noir conventions used in our OTS. The narrative will be backwards, something present in lots of films of the genre. Shadows and silhouettes will also feature. We plan to break conventions also. The most prominent of these will be the lack of key character types - no anti-hero or femme fatale will feature.
