Me and Paul drew up the stroyboard using the narritive structure as a guidline, so the opening scene will make sense. It includes all the shots we need to film, including the title sequence. This will also assist us when filming so we know exactly what shots we need to film.
This is the narrative structure me and Paul created, it outlines the events of the entire film, whereas we will only be filming the opening sequence. This will help us when storyboarding so we know what we need to include to set the scene for the rest of the film.
We researched other openings in the thriller genre for inspiration in our own work. We did this by using the art of the title.com and looked at the opening of the crime-thriller se7en.
Me and Paul analysed the opening titles of Casino Royale to better understand the opening of a thriller and incorporate this into our own opening sequence. Whilst this is only the titles, and lasts over three minutes, our opening will be two minutes, including live action and titles.
0:05 - Production Company
0:08 - Actor - lead role
0:11 - Original Writer of the series
0:15 - Film title
0:19 - 0:54 - Actors and stuntmen
0:58 - Associate produce, Production Executive
1:02 - Camera Operator, Assistant Director, Script Supervisor, Publicity and Marketing, Promoting, Assistant Producer
1:17 - Visual Effects, Supervising Art Director, Property, Construction Manager, Post Production Supervisor
1:24 - Unit Production Manager, Second Unit Production Manager, First Assistant Director
1:30 - Casting, Stunt Co-ordinator
1:33 - Special and Miniature Effects Supervisor, Main Title Designer
1:37 - Second Unit Director
1:41 - Costume Designer
1:55 - Editor
I learnt that the sequence only gives the title of the film later in the credits. The actors often precede this as do the major producers and directors. I also learnt that a lot of films in this genre (though there are exceptions) have a title sequence, seperate from live action.
Me and Paul have decided that a crime-thriller genre would be interesting to film for our two minute opening sequence. This is because whilst not as complicated as science-fiction to film we can retain an interesting narrative and characters.
