This tabletop opening sequence to a movie was about a man who was attempting to kill someone. It starts by doing a pan over a piece of a news article from the newspaper. This shows a picture of three men, all with squares drawn around their face in red pen. This could reflect on how the man wants to kill them through the red coloured ink, implying the blood. Below these squares are the three men's alias. Below the alias' there is a short brief telling the owner of this newspaper article which person he needs to kill.
The camera then pans to the man's hand opening a briefcase, in which we see a gun, a passport and a large sum of American dollars. This could connote that the person is travelling to America, from the American money he has in his briefcase, and the passport implies he's leaving the country. The gun really lets the cat out of the bag if it wasn't apparent enough that he was going to kill someone from the newspaper article.
The camera then pans to a deck of cards, which the man spreads out on the table, and by coincidence the combination AK47 is the outliers of the deck and is what is seen by the camera. This gives an even stronger sense of death to the short film as an AK47 is a machine gun. The camera then pans to the final part of the opening sequence, a display of drugs, most likely cocaine, spread out into 4 lines, with a rolled up note next to it. This gives the viewer a sense of worry, as they are lead to think that this man is mentally crazed, and that he is not in his right mind to be attempting to kill someone right then.
Excellent work: your practice film opening makes exciting and convincing viewing and hooks the audience's attention with its effective choice of props, excellent editing and arresting sound effects.
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