RED HERRING

A Red Herring is seen quite often in thriller movies. A Red Herring's role is to serve as a distraction or to hinder the protagonist, which effectively both inhibits or seen as an addition to the narrative and the story telling.

It is still indecisive as to whether a Red Herring should be implemented in mine and my group's opening sequence. We certainly do have the means of including a Red Herring and I believe it would certainly add some dynamism to our narrative however it would be rather difficult to add something like a Red Herring to a 2 minute sequence as a Red Herring would require some elaboration in its role.

Katie Holmes & Harvey Dent - Dark Knight

Wai Lin - Tomorrow Never Dies

Jinx - Die Another Day

Mal - Inception

We have attempted to implement our own Red Herring into our narrative with the vague and implicit introduction of a women named 'Hanna'. This is an attempt to induce more depth and tension into the story and a minor form of character development as our Protagonist, 'Smith', exhibits an out-of-character moment in the state of shock which we aim to end the opening sequence in. 

Our opening sequence will tend to be rather slow-paced and mellow as we are trying to meet the convention of suspense that is often seen in spy-thrillers. By conveying such a depressing and low-pitched beginning, it will provide a greater shock once we introduce the Red Herring 'Hanna' among the dialogue as it will contribute a larger sense of immediacy to the narrative.