creep

we looked at the opening sequence to the film 'creep'. we feel that this could help us in the creation of our trailer to 'jekyll and hyde'. the film starts with the classic dark scene with 2 men walking down what seems to be a sewer in complete darkness with only torches to light the way. this is the classic setting for a horror movie, creating suspense and disequillibrium for the audience. we look to create this same feeling within our trailer. eventually the 2 men part from one another as as they find an estranged hole in the wall at one end of the sewer. one of the men is brave enough to venture down it, whilst the other 'chickens' out. the suspense is built up through the music and use of close ups of the characters. the music is highed pitched and elongated. we mainly follow the actions of the coward as he no longer hears his collegue and it has been a while since he has seen him. the dialogue also leads us to believe that something is wrong, such as: 'are you there?', 'are you playing a trick on me?'. the man then retraces his collegue's steps, with only a dull light to lead the way, giving a short range of view for the audience and the character. when the man find his collegue, he is in a heap on the floor, bleeding but still alive and in shock. we dont know what the man is looking at or why he is injured. the music at this point is very high tensity and very dense, making the audience feel really tense and worried for the injusred character. then the uninjured character turns around to see a comletely black doorway where a women, covered in blood, plunges forward and then is pulled back by an unseen character, leaving the opening sequence at a complete disequillibrium to the audience. we hope to make our opening sequence a similar standard of 'scariness' to this opening sequence.