Opening sequence to Brick

Brick fits into the thriller genre by having:
- Many close-up shots to make you think about what has happened, where the place is, who are the people... We see many close ups of things like the girl's arms with the wrist bands, the man's shoes- which we see later on in the sequence and then for a fact, know that that man is the same man as before.
- There is a slightly reversed storyline, where you see the girl dead, then walking in the next scene.
- We are given little clues about small things and not given the whole story to start off with. For example, we see the dead girl's arm with the wrist bands on, then we see, what we think, is the same girl walking in the building as we see her arm with the same wrist bands on.
- We are asking different questions like who is the girl? Why is she dead and in this place? What has happened?
- We know that there is a link between the girl and the man as we see the girl put a note in his locker.

Most of these things are in all thriller films and so this shows that Brick is a certain thriller.

Brick's opening sequence

We know that this is an opening sequence because it has many close ups which do not show all of what is going on. Also, it is quite confusing, as an opening sequence only really "opens" the film up to make you sit down and watch the rest. We also know that it is an opening sequence (of a thriller) as it shows the last part, first. (A dead girl lying in a waterway, then going back to when she was alive, giving a note that sais the place name of where to meet her, to a boy).

Main shots

Main shots

Thriller opening sequence work

Shot list (rough):
1) Close up of face (dead boy)(looking down)
2) Close-mid shot of body of dead boy (on floor sideways)
3) Close up of blood (down)
4) Close up of gun, blooded at tip (diagonal down)
5) Close up of his phone vibrating and ringing on the ground (same)
6) Extreme close up of phone screen showing caller's name
7) Mid (mid angle) shot of 2 boys with phone, calling boy
8) Close up of one boy's face looking at phone (straight)
9) Close up of phone/screen and answerphone heard (down)
10)Mid shot of boy talking to toher boy )short reverse shot
11)Mid shot of other boy talking to other boy ) (over shoulder)
12)Mid shot of boy talking to other son )
13)Mid/long shot of the boys walking away to find friend who they first called, hearing them saying things about him (eye level shot)
14)Long shot of field in eyes of 1/2 of the boys
15)Long shot from behind dead boy looking at friends coming.

MAIN POINTS:

1)See dead boy -close ups (mid shots
2)See phone - extreme close up/close ups
3)See friends calling him - mid/close ups
4)See them walking to find him - Mid/long shots
5)See them calling for friend, knowing he was going to be somewhere there, and finding him.

SECTION 1

- Close ups of speckles of blood (looking down) moving up
- Close up of bloody-tipped gun (looking sideways) moving down
- Close up of dead boy's face (looking sideways on floor) moving up
- Close/mid shot of body - moving down
- close/mid shot of body from side in blood - moving sideways

SECTION 2

- Mid shot seeing phone in pocket - no movement
- Mid/close up of pocket and ground with phone virbrating and falling out of pocket to floor (phone now facing up and ringing now heard) - slow motion
- Extreme close up of phone screen showing name of caller with blood on screen, then it goes to answerphone - no movement
- Close up of phone coming away from one friends ear, shoving other friend to the right - no movement
- Extreme close up of phone screen and friend ending the call. Movement as in eyes of friend
SECTION 3

- Mid shot moving round from shoulder of friend that didn't call, looking at other friend then down at phone in his hand - curves round and then down
- Mid shot of other boy talking to boy with phone - no movement
- Mid shot of other boy talking to boy with phone - no movement (shot, reverse, shot)

SECTION 4

- Mid shot of 2 boys from the side, panning left, following them as they start to walk forward - left move
- Long shot looking from behind them, showing them walking (we hear them talk badly to each other about him - "Never answers the phone, hasn't been anywhere ....")
- Mid shot of path behind wall, seeing them come around the corner.
- Close up of blood still dripping from dead boy

SECTION 5

- Long shot of filed in the eyes of one of the 2 boys - left and right
- Mid shot of 2 boys talking to each other about where he might be
- Close up of a friend's face, ("He has been acting kinda wierd, he normally gets here about this time.")
- Close up of other frind from behind other shoulder saying, ("Innit, where the hell is he?")
- Long shot from behind dead boy, showing the 2 friends spotting him (start off as close up, zooming out/moving back, so we can see dead boy in in foreground and friends in background)


Either section 1 or the whole of the opening sequence shows the opening credits

Thriller Story

Title: Behind it All

Plot Synopsis:

There is a group of three friends. One of the friends, Scott Gregory seems to be behind the other two, (Norman Allen and Brandon Feonix). He seems to be the 'tag-along' of the group. Norman and Brandon lead quite good lives. both have a fair bit of money, both have girlfriends, they live in a slightly higher class area and they don't do very much at home as they both have a mother and a father there if they need them. Scott has only one person at home, his mother, as his father died shortly after he left his old school (which was not a very good school) to go to a better school in Sutton. As his friends keep on bragging about what they have and how well they're getting on in their school, Scott gets very angry about this and tries to keep his anger to himself. His friends, however, keep on going on about their fantastic lives and Scott just goes along with everything they are saying. Norman or Brandon might say what they have done recently. For example, going to places like the 02 or even just up to Croydon. Scott just answers them by saying "Oh, yeah. Yeah, its good there". -Even when he has never been to any of the places brought up by his friends. His friends say things like "Oh, my dad got me this I-phone for my birthday. You can do like, bare things with it, you know!". Scott would just answer, "Oh, yeah, my mum got me toast earlier" (or something along those lines). Eventually, Scott gets too frustrated and, really, looses it. He gets his hand on a gun, planning to kill his friends and hopefully take some of their things. He then saw how happy they were with everything and decided to turn the gun on himself.

How 6th sense is a thriller

1) Darkness throughout. We first see complete darkness, then a lightbulb glowing slowly on. We also see a dull screen when the light is fully on as it is not a strong light. There is also a door which goes into a very dark room and is slightly ajar. This is meant to make us feel uneasy/ frightened as we are waiting for something to come out of the dark.

2) Eerie music is played. At the start, before we see the light bulb glow and light up, there is a strange piece of music played. This makes us uncomfortable but sits us down ready to watch it, waiting for something to happen.

3) Never a full shot of the room. We never see the cellar in a whole, throughout the opening sequence. It is mainly close/ mid sshots of it. This is done so that we are unsure about what the whole place looks like. It makes us want to see what is around the room so we feel better about the situation.