Shot Types

In my opening of chosen researched film 'Kill Bill' there are only two shots; one close of of The Bride after she has been attacked by 'The Deadly Viper Squad' and one pan shot of Bills feet walking across the chaple towards The Bride. This scene is key to the film as this is the last time The Bride is concious before she goes into a coma and the film often will refer to this opening scene aswell as continuing the story in scenes before and after this.
We do not see Bill even though we hear a full speech from him to the Bride, we do not understand what their relationship is about but we understand that there is history between them and that Bill is preparing to kill the Bride but will not enjoy doing so, referring to himself as masochistic but not sadistic towards the Bride. We know Bill is preparing to kill the Bride when we hear that the object he has been moving around is a pistol as we hear is cock and the Brides eyes widen.
Despite being the only character inshot, the Bride only speaks once. As the pistol is being loaded and cocked she says with all her power left "Bill it's your baby." in order to save her life and her childs life. From this one short scene we have now already learned that the Bride was getting married but her wedding was interrupted by an attack, the Bride is pregnant with Bill's baby despite getting married to someone else and Bill having tried to kill her, all of these make this scene key to the rest of the film and attatches the audience.
This main shot of the Bride is in black and white to draw attention away from all the blood, swelling and bruising on the beaten bride and to focus the views on the deadly conversation between Bill and the Bride, this is also a technique used by director Quentin Tarantino throughout this film aswell as other films of his.

Genre Research

Horror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their purpose is to frighten the viewer and invoke our deepest fears whilst making them seem realistic, often leaving the viewer frightened even days after watching. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness.
Early horror movies are largely based on classic literature of the gothic/horror genre, such as Dracula and Frankenstein. Sometimes horror films have been dismissed as violent, low budget exploitation films despite often having well respected directors. In recent years many old horror films have been remade and modernized making them much scarier and realistic than ever before.
Some horror films incorporate elements of other genres such as science fiction, fantasy, mockumentary, black comedy, slasher, teen terror, serial killers and thrillers.
Some popular horror films are; Scream, The Ring, Prom Night, Hostel, Saw, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Exorcist.

After researching the horror genre, I would like to do our film opening on it as I think it is the most interesting and creative genre out of the ones we discussed.

Film Openings

I chose the opening of Kill Bill as it is one of my favourite films and I think the opening is a key scene to the rest of the film as the film often changes between time periods of before and after this scene. It introduces you to the aim of the film: to "Kill Bill". It introduces the two main characters immediatley as well as their complex relationship. We do not see Bill's face which shows us that he is a very powerful man. We can only see one shot during the opening, that is of the 'bloodsplattered bride' who is gasping for breath, showing that she is under Bills power.

We can see that the bride has been attacked as she is covered in blood and gasping for breath. This is very strange and confuses the audience as this is so out of the ordinary. Once we begin to listen we understand that Bill was part of this assault on the bride,he states that he is "at his most masochistic" which tells the audience that he is wanting to kill. The audience assume that Bill is preparing to kill the bride.

The scene becomes most thrilling at the when the bride takes a breath to speak whilst you can hear a gun being loaded and shes "Bill, it's your baby." and instantly we hear a gun shot, we see the bride flinch and that is the end of the scene leaving the audience in suspense.