'Before I Go To Sleep' (2014) is a film that is influential to ours because it is a thriller and about a woman with amnesia, similar to the soldier in my film.
In the opening to this film, unusually there are no credits other than the distribution and production companies and the title of the film. Having the correct number of credits (24) in my opening title sequence is very important as it is part of the marking criteria, so this will have to be thought about carefully, as well as the order that they go in.
The typography for the title of the film is only showed on screen for a second before it distorts and blurs off the screen. This foreshadows the plot to the film, the woman has amnesia and this connotes that her memory is short term by the short time the text is displayed and that it is distorted by the movement of the text off the screen. The sound over the top is someone heavily breathing which sounds like a woman, this denotes anxiety and the woman in the film could feel anxious about not being able to remember parts of her life.
The first shot of a character in the film is a close-up shot of the main female character at a canted angle, which signifies that something is not quite right and this gives the audience the position of being by her bedside when she wakes up in the morning with memory loss.
Although there were not many credits in this sequence, it gave me the idea of how to compose different shots based on my idea, for example, the canted angle gives a sense of distortion and foreshadows some later events. I will ensure to include 24 credits in a good order starting with the name of the studio and ending with the directors' name, with cast, the films name and various other roles of production in the middle.
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