Research, Film Openings

The genre our group has chosen to use for our film opening is action/thriller. We have chosen this Genre because we feel we have a stronger knowledge about it than any other so we will be able to work to our potential.
We all have many ideas for our 2 minute intro and will soon discuss in detail and decide on our ideas.
I am working with my friends Adam and Dan and we all have simalar interests so working together shouldnt be a problem.
In this lesson i looked on youtube to find out what made a good into to gain 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