RESEARCH - OPENING SEQUENCES

Collateral - opening sequence

• Begins with extreme close ups of actors faces hidden between the movement of the crowd - we are constantly looking for their faces lost in the crowd 
• we get a feeling that there is something else going on other than the open frame of movement we experience. 
• tilts and handheld rolls give an effect of movement so we become part of the crowd 
• camera is constantly pulling in and out of focus - what is real and what isn't? what is about to happen?
• we're very unsure of where the characters are going or who they are, camera is shot at eye level to give a realistic feel of ourselves in amidst the crowd following the characters
• the speed contrasts between slow motion and real motion to distort what is happening