The opening sequence of Silence of the lambs started with a view of two trees, with the name of the location along the bottom letting the audience know the location. The start also shows a young woman running through a deserted forest; wearing a jumper, which said ‘FBI training’; this tells the audience a bit about what the film might be about. The deserted forest and gloomy fog throughout represents that the film is a thriller. The determination from the young woman is shown as she completes the different areas of the assault course, this also shows her beating the average stereotype of a woman. When she gets in to the lift, tall men in red jumpers surround her; the contrast between the small woman and the tall men, and also the contrast between the red jumpers and the blue of her jumper creates juxtaposition. The way the women stands up straight keeping her head held high shows her confidence and also that she challenges the average stereotype and shows she’s not an inferior woman. The zoom in to a close up of the sign saying ‘ Behavioral Scientist Laboratory’ helps to show what the narrative of the film might be. The way the camera tracks into her face when she’s stood in the room looking something, and the music begins slowly building up shows she has seen something shocking or something she shouldn’t of.
The close ups on the newspaper cuttings, and the different shots showing the stories from them, tell the audience a bit about what the narrative of the story might be. Also the way the woman's facial expressions looked towards the newspaper cuttings shows she might have been involved with it, or may have been affected by it.
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