Pitch

Narrative of opening sequence

• starts as a hand held camera (used for effect)
• shots of a unknown characters face, and feet, not giving away who the character actually is
• no introduction to any main characters
• running through forest- scene
• only dialogue is screams and ''help me''. 
• shots of a shadow lurking around in trees
• use of tv cutting out as a erie effect 
• insipred by 'blaire witch project'

Overall, its a pshycological thriller, with hints of mystery and perhaps horror. The opening scene starts with the title sequence (short) followed by a character which is unknown, panting whilst running through the forest, clearly running away from something but its not shown what, non diegetic sounds of heart beating, and shots of the characters face cutting in an out with the tv white noise, and also shots of s mysterious character looking through pictures, and negatives and newspapers,  as part of the title sequence. Nothing else of the narrative is revealed, the scene ends with the camera being dropped on the floor and the camera still recording.

Subgenre 

Conventions:

Psychological thrillers narrative usually contain a character with some kind of mental illness or issue, the thrillers usually contain twists in the film, also emotions or feelings are explored, also characters discovering reality, the core of the narrative is situated round the mind, themes of identity and also the characters are normally in search for their purpose. 

- From this we was hoping that through the opening scene the audience would be able to gather it has something to do with a psychological thriller, its all about mind games making the genre obvious, also with the main characters not being shown directly at the beginning of our film.


When thinking about the subgenres, we thought about what other thrillers made up come up with our idea, we found that momento and parts of blair witch project have helped us to construct our opening sequence. 
Looking at the opening sequence of momento you can see from our narrative ideas which parts we have came up with from inspiration.