Planning for the opening of a film:

This topic involves me making an opening scene to a movie:

The genre that i chosen for my opening film is thirller / action. The reason why I've chosen this genre is because it's my most strongest outlook in film and i no what things are expected to be in action films as it tends to be my favourite genre. Plus its easier than some other genres I think and can generate a whole range of ideas that make it even more excititng and adventurous compared to other genres.

First we had to pick the people that we're working with, I pick my friend Ian and Adam the reason why is that he has the same interests as me and properly the same mind set and opinions towards a action film and what need to be included.

Then after i chosen my people to work with we looked at some opening clips and from them generated ideas from them of what we could include in our final project.

From these clips we came up with these ideas:

• What is needed in an opening movie sequence that involves?
  • Big bold title
  • Mise en scene for the type of genre
  • Camera angles, how many shots? (10-20)
  • What clothes for the character, what way should he act?
  • What the character emotions are and the he acts
  • The type of text in the title, font, size, colour, bold, Underlined
  • What editing in the camera we need to do, fade in, fade out, zoom in, and zoom out?
  • Maybe a logo to represent the film like maybe a army film or gangster film etc.
  • Slow motion effects, fighting, gun shot; point of view like someone is watching someone etc.
  • Sudden bursts of noise, silent to loud in an instant, short and snappy.
  • Colour of the background, black and white, bright and bold, colourful and loud.
  • Historical vengeance, Job reference?
  • Point of view with a question to answer, a target on a person?
  • Appropriate surrounding quiet, day, night, sunny, windy, rain, busy, lazy.
  • Where’s it set on a building / sniper. In a street/ cars, gangsters, knifes, guns. In a house: quiet, close combat, anger, scene and signs of historical vengeance / flashbacks.
  • Angle of guns the way they point to represent that they are the main aspect or the character.
  • Maybe sort 20 seconds of background life of the chararacter, family, causes – convicted – shot and left for dead – etc....
  • Is the dilemma set in the local environment or far away in a different country?
  • Maybe a rise of monsters vampires, demons, zombies, aliens and needs to be a very intimidating and big dilemma!
  • Maybe the main character could turn him into the dilemma and be the dilemma without knowing, quick twists.
  • Brief summary of the story and how characters link to each other.
  • An opening scene slowly getting bigger and building up tension of what it includes, e.g. a mystery box, graveyard, symbolic codes.
  • End of movie clip which leaves an enigma code to make the person want to find out what happens next.
  • Abstract clever backgrounds maybe e.g. cartoony, (Sin city) (Kill bill) (Crank)
  • Explosions, powerful and fast or slow moving enrolment and tells the tempo of what the film maybe like e.g. (Crank)
  • Over the top action scene, maybe compare it to real life and then to the main character e.g. James bond.
• Heavy music in backgorund maybe, add supension and makes the actions more powerful and affective.