2. Genre Our chosen genre focuses on the crime thriller genre which would fit in well as some aspects of our ideas come from the opening sequence of âSevenâ and how the killer is always thinking of ways to murder his victims.
3. Main idea Our main idea is of a mysterious person who has killed an innocent victim and is planning to kill another. As he is planning the murder there is a continuous cross cut between the planning of the next murder and the body is he hiding of the person he had killed. Omar will explain in further detail....
4. Related Movies and Openings We got an idea of the type of shots we want to use from watching the opening sequence of âSe7enâ. But we also watched openings from other movies such as âThe Number 23â and âThe Butterfly Effectâ to give us a wider range of ideas and real-life examples to work with. Television show openings such as âDexterâ (not Dexterâs Lab) and âSix Feet Underâ also helped give us a different sense of openings and the type of story we wanted our opening sequence to tell as well as the type of shots we wanted to use to portray that story.
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6. How Real-Life Examples Were Used Our first priority was to see what type of text was good for a thriller film in which we used the film âSe7enâ as an example. But we wanted some originality and not simply do something similar to âSe7enâ. We then looked at other movie openings such as âThe Number 23â which was a âtext-basedâ opening to see what type of text the film used and how they used it to fit the thriller genre. The next problem we faced was to see how to integrate/sync our text with the type of shots and scene we wanted to do. Once again âSe7enâ was used as an example to analyse how they used their text/titles with the scenes they shot. We also looked at other type of film openings such as those from âUsual Suspectsâ and âThe Butterfly Effectâ to decide what type of shots and scene we wanted to shoot. We then decided on something similar to opening sequences such as âDexterâ and âSix Feet Underâ where each shot is short and shows a different action. We then used these two opening sequences to decide how we would shoot our own sequence, make it tell the story we want it to tell as well as how to integrate our titles with the scene and shot types.
7. Location The locations for which we have discussed was the cemetery in Cannons Park, these pictures are the from the Cannons Church and Cemetery. We have already got permission to film on their grounds.
10. Shots + Shot types We were planning to make most of our shots close-ups and extreme close-ups with a couple of mid-close ups. For our first couple of shots we were planning on using a close-up to show someone putting on latex gloves. It then goes onto another scene with a close-up of a beaker with our character putting in something which turns the clear liquid in the beaker red. Our next shot would be an extreme close-up of a sink filled with a red liquid being drained with a title swirling with it. There would be some mid-shots of our character dragging a heavy duty garbage bag with something heavy in it, which continuous with him dragging it past a tombstone and him then driving a spade through the dirt (like when digging).
11. Some screenshots from opening sequences with the type of camera shots our group is planning to use.