We have displayed the name of the film Doctor 6:19 at the very end of the

opening sequence. We decided to present the title at the end of the opening
rather than the beginning, because we thought the opening could act as an
insight to the storyline and then the title could be used to bring the viewers back
to the chronological beginning of the story. By introducing our title at the end we
thought that it could also give an intense feeling, such as the iconic Lion King
title, which suddenly jump cuts with a loud sound effect! We presented the title
by overlapping it with another scene and gradually making the opacity greater
until it was the only scene in view. We did this to give a psychologically
disturbing entrance, similar to Se7ens glitchy titles. This would give the
audience a sense of psychological darkness, allowing them to begin guessing
about the films plot!
Our opening sequence is set both in a hospital and outside a club, we chose
these settings as our main character is a doctor (therefore a hospital would be
his normal environment) and we also chose a club, as his victims are women who
mistreat their bodies under the influence of alcohol and drugs (so a club would

be the typical place to find a person of that nature)! Another factor which
persuaded us to use a hospital for one of our settings is the fact that our main
character has schizophrenia (therefore even he was not a doctor he would visit
one regularly. As our film is of a psycho-thriller genre, it is very typical to be set
in a hospital, because other psycho-thrillers such as Shutter Island are set in
hospitals too. This is to draw in the psychological aspect within the film! It is also
very typical for a psycho-thriller to have more than one setting, for instance
Shutter Island is also filmed on the Peddocks Island (and ours is filmed outside a
club), this change in setting shows the drastic psychological difference in our
main character and storyline.
During our opening sequence we have used a variety of props. For example a
knife, rope, hoodie, bag, car, suit (trousers and shirt), rosary, bible, drugs...
These costumes and props are more or less typical for our genre of film. For
instance a hoodie would typically be worn by a dark/shady character, as they are
trying to hide something (usually themselves, which our main character is trying
to do; from the police). Also, by placing our actor in a suit for his role as a doctor,
we have created a realistic appearance for him and the audience. We used a
rosary and a bible, as it linked the opening to the theme of Christianity and the
teaching your body is a temple. We also included an image of the a website
article telling about a murder of some girls, this allowed the audience to
understand that the film will be about murder and gives them a clue as to what
the doctor has been up to (at night)! We felt it was important to include a scene
with the doctor driving past the club, so that we could see a little into his
personal life (how he drives; is he fast, dangerous, slow, scared...? And what he
does in his own time)!
During our opening we have used a mixed variety of camerawork. For example
there are a few establishing shots, some high angle shots, mid-shots, close-ups,
long-shots... We used high angle shots, so the camera looked down on our main
character (to belittle him and make it apparent to the audience that he is a
villain), this can be seen when he looks up to the casino instead of looking down
at it and when he puts his foot out of the car (the camera is above him). We also
overlapped a lot of scenes (via adjusting the opacity), this allowed two scenes to
be viewed at the same time. We chose to do this, as we thought it would create a
split between the real world and what goes on within the doctors mind (again
relating to the psycho-thriller genre of our film). I believe the movement of our
camerawork to be very typical of a psycho-thriller film, as they tend to involve
shakiness such as Se7ens opening titles.
The editing within our film opening has mainly been focused on the opacity
overlap. We had to readjust the opacity quite a bit to find the right type of
overlap, we thought that by overlapping we were creating a division between
real-life and the on-goings within the doctors mind! (This would create a
psychological aspect to relate to other genre). For example in the opening of
Se7en, there are few moments when the scenes are overlapped. We also had to
lighten a few scenes as they were predominantly dark and not visible with a
filter, this took a long time (as we had to teach ourselves how to do it, but it
created much better lighting). There were a lot of scenes we had to cut or re-film
to get them just right! For example there was a long scene that involved a nurse,

which we ending up completely cutting (this made our film opening more
articulate).
Our films storyline is that of a schizophrenic doctor (Dr. Joseph Damien), who
believes he can hear the voice of God telling him that all who abuse their bodies
rather then treating them like a temple should be punished via death. He
therefore begins a series of murders, before being placed back on medicine to
help control his mental illness, after which he begins to regret his actions and
eventually ends up committing suicide just before the police arrive to arrest him.
The opening to our film is set up to show how our storyline ends (the doctor has
already killed his female victim, as shown through the crime scene photos),
before the film has a flashback to two days earlier. It is here that the film
chronological begins and we see the doctor head of to his first victim outside a
nightclub. We believed a flashback would be a good idea, as psycho-thrillers such
as I Confess also use flashbacks to explain the entire narrative. Clues within
our opening to the storyline, are the use of spilled blood on the titles, a website
article telling about the murder of some girls, a bottle of tablets addressed to
Joseph for Schizophrenia and the fact that he is scribbling out of control suggest
he is not in a normal state of mind and the settings also clue the audience into
the fact that Joseph is a doctor (for example he has his own office within a
hospital).
Our character is introduced right away, he first appears scribbling on a bible and
the camera slowly pans up until the audience can see a mid-shot of him sitting at
his desk. He has no dialogue throughout the opening, but as you see him in his
different environments (the office, his car, the hospital, the lockers and the
nightclub) there are a lot of props to suggest what kind of a person he is. For
instance the rosary suggests he is religious. The only other character seen is the
female victim who is first seen lying dead in some crime scene photos, then an
overlap of scenes show her smoking under a lamppost outside a brick wall
(suggesting that he stalked her) and finally you see an overlapped scene of her
at the end of the opening displaying her running across a field yelling NO, NO,
PLEASE DONT! These scenes show her smoking; therefore we know she is the
perfect victim for Joseph (as she mistreats her body). Similarly other psychothrillers such as American Psycho typically use females as the main victims (as
they appear to be a lot weaker than males).
We have used special effects within our film and editing. For example the main
effect used was the overlapping of two different scenes, this was done by
adjusting the opacity of the scenes until both were visible (we did this as it is
typical of a psycho-thriller to have special effects but not necessarily that one;
and we wanted our film to look slightly unique). We also used a typewriter
transition to introduce our computerised titles, this gave a bit of suspense when
the two days earlier title came up slowly rather than quickly, to emphasis the
fact that something drastic happened.