The silence of the lambs

The film starts with some shots of a woman running through a dark, misty wood. It gradually becomes apparent that she is running an assault course. An F.B.I. man tells her that a Mr. Crawford wants to see her. At this stage it is made clear that she is working for the F.B.I. because we see her making her way through corridors full of guns and agents. She then enters some offices where she finds some newspaper clippings and pictures about a murderer who skins people. The camerawork and editing hint at the plot of the film however it does not give away all the vital information. This is an attribute we would like to carry over into our work because we do not want our film to have a trailer like quality that many of the examples we have seen contain. A film opening should only establish the setting and story rather than sum up the whole contents of the film. The Silence of the lambs opening contains many features that would be useful to take influence from if we were to do a thriller.