Goodfellas Opening

This is the opening scene from The Goodfellas. This clip has shown me how we can use sound and light to enhance our opening two minutes. The sound is very detailed and amplified when they are stabbing and shooting the man in the boot. This tells the audience that these men are not very nice and catches the audience off guard because this murder has just happened within the first few minutes of the film starting. Then the main character starts reflecting/narrating and only the audience can hear his narration which causes a bond to form between the audience and the main character already and makes the audience want to know his story of how he got there and why there was a man who got killed in his car.

When the characters get out of the car you can hear crickets in the background which immediately tells the audience that they are in a rural setting away from anyone else. The sound in this clip is used to convince the audience that they are in a certain setting and intensifies the scene when the man in the boot is murdered.

The lighting used in this clip can also help us get ideas for our two minute opening because again the lighting is very natural, the car lights are the only things lighting the car and when they get round to the boot there are only the red tail lights to light up the characters which convinces the audience that the scene is real and because of the red over the characters you can relate that to anger and danger which there is when the boot is opened.