'Five days'- Chess

Notes

• before any action, credits being the first thing
• music sad beat
• blue shade/tine dark outside
• silhouettes
• darkly dissolves or fades to another shot with multiple names, just names
• white wrighting
• blurry focus like a ghost or dream
• blurred together by lights or candles
• police sign imposed over the top
• speckly
• music increases with man in pool to a sharp stabby screeching sound
• text flivkers in an out and at one point a line of it flows across screen like the police do not cross signs
• fades to a lighter shot of trach and bloody shoe with 'five days' to the side
• then five days dissappears and the the 's' in 'days' turns into a '1' becoming 'day 1' then the background dissolves by light to a shot of the clouds in the sky with day 1 remaining in shot
• then thats when the film starts with the first shot of the credit scene

Overall

This sequence works well creating a slightly suspicious, dreamy awkward and tensed mood. We see possible characters and it forshadows what may come with the train and the baby and the shoe. But as the shots are surrounded in darkness it gives the idea it may be a dark story with twists and secrets to be revealed. The transformation to title to day 1 joins the title and directly links it to the film, giving the sequence even more relevance. The music adds to the whole slightly creepy atmosphere and gives and emotional tie with the start of the film.