Opening thriller analysis.

The Good Doctor(2011)

The Good Doctor is a 2011 American thriller film directed by Lance Daly, and starring Orlando Bloom as the eponymous "good doctor" A young doctor goes to unconscionable extremes in order to remain in the service of a female patient with a kidney disorder.

The opening clip to ' The Good Doctor', is unconventional to most thriller openings/trailers. It does not appear to be within the genre, as it does not start with jumpy quick edits and low lighting. Instead there is dialogue, it is only towards the end of the opening sequence that the pace of the edits begin to pick up and and the non-diagetics start to fade in. 

Obsessed(2009) 

A successful asset manager, who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage. But when a temp worker starts stalking him, all the things he's worked so hard for are placed in jeopardy.

The opening clip embodies conventional codes and conventions of an opening thriller. Fast overlapping edits, eerie diagetics. After every edit a font banner overlaps with text that contradicts what is going to happen or a character, for example "Innocent", was used overlapping the office temp, which the audience eventually find out after watching the sequence that the office temp is anything but that. The sound throughout the sequence is both diagetic (Dialogue between characters) and non-diagetic ( Eerie music). The pace of the music denotes the sequences genre while connoting the actual contents of the film.

Black Swan(2010)

A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

A picture is being drawn in black pastel on a white surface. , black  font is used to present all the actors. After the picture of the swan is completed, background changes to black, and a white font slowly fades in, titling 'Black Swan' being the last text to appear.

During the opening, all the music heard is a non-diegetic sound of classical music. As the text starts to show, the music is very slow placed and gentle.

Throughout this opening sequence the setting stays very much the same, being simple and plain. The main colours that are used are blacks and whites, denoting the battle of good vs evil in the film.