At the very start of the opening, we are given a slient few seconds giving us information, informing us on what we are about to see. The silence in this shot builds tensions for us because we have no idea what's going to happen. The simple white on black gives us a kind of space feeling, given from the title 'Gravity'.
As soon as the writing finishes, we get a shock of sound that suddenly starts when the action starts happening. From the calm white writing, going to a straight shot to a catastrophic accident in space. Which, again, tells us why the title is 'Gravity' because all we see is an awful shuttle accident with a woman swinging around in space and not being able to do anything because of the no gravity atmosphere. Which automatically brings the audience to wanting more.
As the clip gets through, we see it gets even worse, building tension for it's audience when the woman is unclipped from the shuttle. Also giving us an establishing shot of the Earth, telling us how far away she is from home resulting in suspense building up for it's audience.
We are then zoomed into a close up of her face showing the distress she is in. We can also see the black from the background showing that she has no where else to go and she literally is going to the middle of no where. The sound in the shot gives us an intense feeling of suspense with the sharp violins playing in the background as she flies into deep space.
Well done on keeping your blog up to date. You could improve further by adding more analyses of other thriller films. You have included a trailer, which is fine, but an opening would be more useful. Continue to post details from our lessons and the tasks you were asked to complete last week.
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