Opening sequences to a Thriller

Batman The Dark Knight




In the Batman the dark knight there are a few things in the openning scene that show that this movie is a thriller. They start of with men who are trying to rob a bank, with clown masks on. They talk about the joker quite a bit through the robbery, what they and we don't know is that the joker is disguised as on of the robbers, this is an enigma code which are used in thrillers, not knowing something you are curious of. . interestingly these perticular robbers were all out for themselves killing each other one at a time when the others weren't looking.














This picture is a enigma code: we don't know who is the pesrn but we know he is going to play an important role in this robbery

Silence of the lamb



In the beginning of this thriller the establishing shot is taken in an unknown forest where there is alot of fog. we suddenly see a figure of a women apearing through the fog, we could assume she was running away from something, but what she is actually doing is trainning on a police trainning course. The sound that is used creates tension using high pitch sound in simultanious order. Long shots of the women running made us feel comcerned for her because it seemed she was running into endless fog. This women is called to the office to discover that she has been put on a case to interigate Hannibal Lector, they say he a cannibal who han play with peoples minds what will happen to her when she meet him?