Directed by Robin Hardy
- Old style writing, specifying producers thanks in helping create film. Like Blair Witch Project - creating a realistic feeling.
- Titles run throughout opening shots in keeping with the ‘old-style’ font we saw in the title of film and The Producer’s thanks.
- Diegetic sound of Sea Gulls.
- Day time.
- Shot of aircraft on water.
- Cuts to close up of propeller turning on.
- Panning shot of aircraft gliding over water.
- Non-diegetic Scottish music is heard.
- A tracking high angle long shot follows the aircraft as it glides faster over water.
- Camera continues to track as the aircraft takes to air.
- Cuts to close-up of pilots face. First character established.
- Point-of-view shot of what can be seen from the aircraft: the Scottish Highlands.
- This dissolves into a pan of The Highlands.
- This cuts to a tracking high angle long-shot of the aircraft above The Highlands.
- This dissolves to a shot closer high angle shot of the aircraft again flying over a Loch.
- Non-diegetic music is heard as a woman sings a Scottish song.
- The shot cuts again to a point-of-view high angle shot of The Highlands.
I chose to analyse The Wicker Man as it's a non-conventional opening to a Horror film. I feel it's important to see different takes on openings and how directors approach them.
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