This is a presentation of my initial idea for my opening sequence.

1. My Idea: Opening
Sequence
By Lucy Hytner

2. • My idea is to have an opening sequence with a
family/friends arriving on holiday. I want to use a series
of clips, flashing from one sequence to the next. I want
it to show different events but in a series of quick clips
• I want to use a voice over so that the audience can
know some background whilst the opening sequence
plays.
• I had the idea of making it seem like a romantic
comedy but leaving the opening seqeunce on a cliff
hanger which involves drama which makes the
audience want to carry on watching.

3. Kalcun in Turkey: this is my backdrop for filming. I want it to look like a
proper holiday which involve real life sequences.

4. • Romantic Comedy – Travelling to a different
country, with upbeat music and to show the
start of a rom com film which shows the start
to a holiday. It will have a voice over talking
foreshawing events that are later to come.
OR
• Drama – looks upbeat but there is an
underlying problem and in the opening
sequence I will try and create suspense. I
would still have it set on holiday, but include
clips foreshadowing tension and at the end

5. I want to have a group of people acting as a group
of friends. I want to make a realistic interpretation
of a fun holiday with friends, I want to use a group
of people in my task to make it more realistic and
believable for the audience to watch
I may use the main girl and video her whilst on
holiday, and she will be the main protagonist of my
video and I will follow her throughout the sequence
OR
I might do it through a spectator/point of view shot
where I video the surroundings around me but do it
from the point of view from myself and video like
the audience are looking through my eyes.

6. I am going to creating a 3 minute opening
sequence to a film which will introduce
character, setting, plot and mood.
I want to build a climax through out my opening
sequence, maybe with the use of music or the
way I arrange the clips in the sequence.
I want to make the opening sequence happy
but with underlying suspense/tension

7. I maybe want to use a prop that symbolises
something important in the rest of the play. For
example a necklace that she wears throughout
the opening sequence could be left or forgotten
at the end of the film.
I may use props that symbolise the personality
of the girl, this may help the audience connect
to the main character and give them an insight
into her personality

8. • As I am filming my opening sequence on
holiday I want to film some of my clips in the
water. For example I want the end clip to be
staged or in the water (maybe I will have
someone rising from below the surface of the
water)
• I want to have lots of fast moving/pace
shots, this will help grab the audiences
attention

9. • The dialogue that I am going to use is going to
be spoken above the music in a voice over. This
means that I will edit it into the sequence after I
have filmed it. This means that I have more of an
idea of what I need to narrate and inform the
audience about.
• Apart from that I am going to have no other
speaking in my opening sequence as I want the
music and the voice over to be the only noise in
it.
• The voice over is going to help me set the scene
for the audience, it help them understand what is
going on. I will also give a short background of

10. • I am going to have non-diegetic sound through
out my opening sequence.
• I am going to use music through out my
sequence which is upbeat and adds to the
happy mood of my opening sequence.
• I think I am going to use happy music but I may
also experiment with sad and haunting music to
see if the juxtapostion works with the opening
sequence. This may work as it could foreshadow
later events or it may not work at all because it

11. Technical construction
• I am going to use my “nikon 3100”
• I also am going to use
a “go pro” for the
underwater scenes or
action scenes

12. My target audience will probably be
early teenagers as I don’t want
younger as there may be to scary.
I want the audience to be able to
understand the opening seqeunce
and I believe that any younger they
may not understand what is going
on

13. I want the audience to be unexpected
on the end. I want them to think it is a
normal romantic comedy but at the end
be left with a lasting memory of the fear
from the girl, this will be able to create
suspense within the sequence.

14. HE
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