Thursday 21 January 2010

Further Planning - Inspiration

After discussing our ideas in a production meeting with our teacher, we have shared ideas and developed others to come up with the basis for our opening seqeunce. We have decided that we want to use a handycam style for the beginning of our opening sequence to build suspense and introduce the film to the audiecne before the initial credits. We have a rough outline of the structure and what we would like the handycam section to consist of but nothing is final at this stage.

As insipiration for this idea we looked at openings to thrillers and 'The Blair Witch Project' directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez was one of these as it uses handycam style throughout and we liked this idea but did not think it was suitable for the whole of the opening sequence. So this is why we have decided to use it as an introduction. This film is made up of footage from a group of amateur film makers creating a documentary and this is the sort of theme we would like to follow but without replicating it completely. So this film mainly gave us the idea for the use of handycam.




The second inpsirational opening seqeucne we looked at was taken from the film 'Taking Lives' directed by D.J Caruso, it introduced the thought of putting a seqeucne of film together before the credits to give clues to the narrative and introduce characters. We really liked this idea because the suspense of this piece of film will engage the audience immediately so they will want to watch the rest of the film and find out what happens. It keeps the audience hooked right from the beginning.

This idea will need to be developed and planned further, to consider location, apporiate clothing and a solid storyline but we are pleased and happy with what we have thought up so far.
To view thethe openeing sequence of 'The Blair Witch Project' follow the links below:
(unfortunately the opening sequecne of 'Taking Lives' could not be located)

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