Title sequence synopsis

Working Title: ‘Call Me’

‘Darkness Falls Upon Us.’

The opening sequence of our film will begin with the pounding sound of footsteps up a floor. Shortly following will come the sound of non-diegetic orchestral, eerie music. A cross cut to a room with a series of computer screens one of which showing someone coming online. The diegetic sound of a computer making transactions would then be heard. The camera would then cut back to the walking in the hall way, but this time the camera angle would be a low angle shot of the man making him look large and powerful. The beating of his feet would continue building tension. Jumping back to the organised business room with computers, the screens would show the next two people from the group video call have come online and the last one is just switching on. Cutting back to the corridor the camera would be tracking forward behind the President and General. Ahead of them two brawny body guards would open the double metal doors. The president would then give the nod as if to say, ‘thank you’ and ‘its safe’. We will then have an ellipsis technique of editing to cut from when the doors are opened to when he sits down. He starts to address the other world leaders in a political format and informs them the entire dark situation that he fears the world will plunge into. While the President is talking the camera tracks down along the wires connecting the computers, into the wall until it gets to a big bundle of wires crossing and placed in the nest of wires is a tracking device flashing red. The non-diegetic music would be building tension as the camera moved along the wires and it would climax when reaching the hacking device.

The scene will create a ton of suspense because the audience won’t have a clue about who the character is, where they are or what the importance of the characters or the situation is. The shots of the computers will bring forward the importance of technology in the thriller, signifying the sub-genre of cyber. The non-diegetic music will be used to convey the suspense and seriousness of the situation despite the fact that the audience is given very little else to play on. Finally when the camera shows the President and General the audience will know that they are watching a cyber/political sub-genre of thriller.

The title sequence with holds the information of where the location is although they will be able to work out it’s the American President and other leaders of the world. The audience will hear that there has been some sort of disaster but won’t find out the details and the withheld information about the tracking device should hock the audience as they will have to know who is listening in and why they are.