Blitz

Can I just say that my hands are still shaking whilst I type this. Did no one think to warn me about the end of the following video? Did you think my nerves could take it? Because they can't.





Besides the fact that my heart is now in my stomach, this was an absolutely brilliant film opening. I did not see the twist at the end coming and I really loved the panning of the room to allow us to soak up the scene and get a feel for what we were about to see.
I also really like the bit with the torch. There was no artificial lighting for the camera to be clear; the simplicity of the torch was perfect and gave it a really eery feel with the diagetic lighting. I should have taken that as the first sign that this was going to get very scary, very fast but no. I thought I could handle it.
I also noticed that throughout the whole video, light was a major element that they manipulated and played around with for effect. Obviously the torch being one, the other that I really liked was how they used lights to make shadows - when the adult-like silhouette came into the shot it created the effect that something scary was going to happen, and they definitely followed through!
But the best thing about this video was the end -not in a nasty way, just that when "B L I T Z." came up in typewriter font (very nice) and on the top left hand corner flashed a picture of the scary girl whilst the bottom right hand corner featured the scared man. Little bit of juxtaposition there. Very nice, very nice.
Just to add: REALLY not a fan of the scary little girl giggle at the end. That's what nightmares are made of.

However, all round fantastic opening to which I would have awarded 9/10...

The reason for not giving full: I don't like being scared.