The first shot it fades into is the ocean, cold wind noises are played perhaps suggesting to the audience that this scene is going to be cold upsetting scene.
The helicopter shot tracks forward to the shore, to what looks like a grey countryside in which the audience can make out a car and people walking away. The setting is deserted, the car doors are opening they have pulled up along the side of the tracks. The audience will be wondering why? What's in the car
The 2nd shot suddenly cuts behind the two people who are walking, we are behind them, the director has done this so we cannot see their face, who are they? One is wearing a leather jacket and has red hair extensions and the audience will probably be able to work out that she is a rebellious teen. The other is smaller so possibly younger, perhaps a younger sister or friend. Their hair is all messy, were they in a scrap?
The third shot cuts to a shot from within the taxi looking at the two girls, a man is collapsed on the drivers seat, there is blood, and the two girls are walking away, blurred in the distance so you can only just make them out. The audience would have guessed that the two girls probably did this. Also the ID of the driver is focused signifying to the viewer that he was a taxi driver. Possibly suggesting the he was dodgy and the girls attacked him as a result.
It cuts this time to the girls and for the first time you can make out their faces. The you can see they are both quite scruffy and the girl with the red hair in focus has blood on her neck. This again justifies the idea that she killed the man in the car. The audience will notice that they are breathing heavily and are not talking, possibly indicating the shock of what just happened.
It then cuts to an ID of the taxi driver, coered with blood to confirm again the dead guy in the car is a cabbie, it also reveals his name.
It cuts to a front mid shot of the girls tracking back with them as they walk away from the car. This confirms to the audience that they are trying to get away and must have been the ones who killed the driver. They are breathing heavily but don't look too scared or shocked, as though they meant to do it, not from self defence.
The close up on the hand shows the audience the man is still alive, but is shaking and must be on his way out. The girls obviously meant to harm him otherwise they wouldn't be walking away.
An extreme close up of the girls focusing on the blood around ones neck. The blood splatter suggests they killed the man with a knife, the lack of blood on one, suggests she did not want to get involved and was dragged into it.
It then cuts to two quick cutaways one with blood splatter on his taxi computer.
Then to a a keyring photo of him with his son, suggesting that maybe he was not so dangerous after all and was actually a nice person. This then gets the audience asking 'well why did they kill him then?'
It then cuts to the girls hand covered in blood, with a knife and she obviously attacked the man in the car. The attack was obviously intentional because no one really carries a knife around for self defence.
She then drops the knife in the grass, deliberately so she can rid herself of the evidence again confirming the attack was intentional. At the end of the opening sequence now the audience will be asking, 'who are these girls? Why did they attack this man? Who is the man?' Creating a great foundation for the rest of the show.
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