Christina's influences

Christina's idea for her film opening is an abstract sequence, the genre being a supernatural thriller, the same as mine.
We are both using the same storyline and storyboard for our openings.

The opening is of a person walking in to a shed, where they'll search through the props to find a specific object at the end.

Barney suggested that she should watch the opening sequence of Cronos(Del Toro 1993)
The opening is based in an Antiques Pawn Shop in Mexico where the owner finds a specific item- like in our film openings.

The plot summary from IMDB;
In 1535, an alchemist builds an extraordinary mechanism encapsulated into a small golden device. The invention, designed to convey eternal life to its owner, survives its maker until 1997 when it shows up to an antiquarian. Fascinated with the strange device, Gris (Luppi) doesn't note that there's more than one person looking for it. The promise of eternal life has become an obsession to old and sick Mr. De la Guardia (Brook). He and his nephew (Perlman) will do anything to get the "Chronos Invention".

I also suggested that she should watch the opening sequence of To Kill a Mocking Bird(Mulligan 1962)
The opening credits is of extreme close-ups of significant objects this little girl is going through, she is also humming a tune(like Rosemary's Baby's opening titles)

The plot summary from IMDB:
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and will it change any of the racial tension in the town?



Another is one we looked at in a Media Studies class with Barney was Rosemary's Baby(Polanski 1968)
The opening is of a camera tracking buildings in the specific location of the film, with a pretty pink font for the titles with sinister music.
The music at the beginning is possibly the real reason we are referring to this- it consists of a slow score with a woman singing a 'lullaby' over the top- often having a creepy yet effective instrument at the end of each line.

The plot summary on IMDB;
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in a building with a bad reputation. They discover that their neighbours are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a lot of time with them. Strange things start to happen: a woman Rosemary meets in the washroom dies a mysterious death, Rosemary has strange dreams and hears strange noises and Guy becomes remote and distant. Then Rosemary falls pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbours have special plans for her child.