During the planning of the opening sequence I decided that the first scene should be a close up of the character sleeping. The intense expression on the character's face can be decoded as stress and nightmares by the audience. After the character in the scene wakes up the camera then tilts upwards thus showing us the posters and notes on the wall. The message we tried to encode by doing this was that the character is a hard working person who is completely obsessed with something, ergo making the audience question the mental health of the character. It also makes the audience anxious to know what he is obsessed about.
The beginning of the second scene (bridge/crime scene), my team and I decided to use a mid shot to show the two main characters investigating the scene. After that they walk of onto the bridge and the camera tracks them as the walk. One could argue that the character at the front is the more dominate character as he is the one leading the second character. The camera then moves to a close up up the two characters talking to show their facial expression. This close- up reveals the cigarette in the main character's hand. This connotes stress and addition. After the two characters finish arguing the camera angles moves to a long shot of the main character walking down the bride. I added this to show how lonely and depressed he was.
The next scene is a mid shot of the main character's room. We can see that it is messy and the walls are a full of paper and notes stuck onto it, thus showing the main character hardly has time for himself but rather spends most of his time researching. He then walks towards the camera and there shot becomes and extreme close up on his shirt. The whole bathroom scene was filmed in a close up to show the reaction of the character. After he leaves the bathroom the camera tracks him till he gets to the room.
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