Initial Ideas

On Tuesday we were put into our practical coursework groups for our task of filming an opening sequence to a thriller movie. Miss Cunliffe was absent, so during our one lesson with Ms Lynch she put us into our three's and set us off on our task.

Within my group was Paul, Jacob & myself. We sat down straight away and started talking ideas about what genre to have? what would be the first shot? who played who? what the story-line was? After all these were decided we started to storyboard our idea and talk about shots that would be in black and white and what order they would go in, where the title sequence would come in, what font the credits would be in and all other small stuff but very important. We've now wrote a list of 25 camera shots and step-by-step guide to what happens, so were moving onto story-boarding fully with colour and description.

I was really impressed by the opening sequence of the thriller movie Brick that we had watched together in class. So when discussing with Jacob and Paul about our own opening sequence i wanted to take certain aspects of the title sequence/opening shots such as a lot of close ups for a body combined with eerie music. I wanted a common background which everyone can access like Brick so it's even more eerie that it happened there because of it's everyday use.

We finished planning and everyone liked my ideas of adapting a Brick like opening sequence with titles combined with a large number of close up shots which sticks to one of the the conventions of a thriller movie (making the audience ask questions).