FMP | STRUCTURE

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The intro sequnce will comprise 2 parts, distinguished by seperate soundtracks

PART 1 | LIFE CYCLE
Will show images of mourning (two coffins side-by-side, one of which belongs to "Frau Woost" - the real life murder victim of Johann Christian Woyzeck) accompanied by a soothing, music-box lullaby (echoing the overall conceit of being alone surrounded by death - before we know it's just a cruel story)





PART 2 | RHYTHM OF LIFE
In part a reference to the era of the mechanism, in part reference to Tom Waits' rhythm driven music, a reference to the beating heart of humanity and also a device to derive tension and increase expectation - a rhythmic montage of mechanisms in the parlour room: Metronome, gramophone, grandfather clock, turning cogs in big close up, that ends with the needle dropping on the gramophone record, which begins to play Tom Waits' Children's Story.



Next, the camera will move amongst the many curious specimins in the display cabinets until the line "...there was a poor child", where the camera rests on the perfectly preserved upright corpse of a little boy in a bell jar.