Thriller Opening research

Citizen Kane

• Music helps build the scene as there is barely any dialogue.
• Fade editing is used
• Camera movement uses angles
• Reflections in a mirror 
• Darkness on top of the film being in black and white helps create a creepy tone
• Music and visual is synced well together
• There is the use of some extreme close ups.

The Dark Knight 

• Music is quiet and the starts suddendly.
• Masks are used to conceal the identity of the robbers and this gives the sense of being in the unknown.
• Fast Music starts suddenly 
• Guns and weapons are used as conventions.
• Bank is the setting and the actors screaming tells us that this is a scary event of a robbery
• The masked villains are commanding the bank workers to do what they say.
• This is an opening to an Action Thriller.

Exception

• Music builds the scene and makes up for the lack of dialogue.
• Close ups to the eyes 
• Chase scene.
• As the audience we can see things that some of the characters cant see due to the camera placement. This builds lots of suspense.

The First Degree 

• Close ups are used 
• Music is overall slow paced
• Titles that were used helped understand what was going on in the scene.