Planning our film sequence

We started out by researching other opening sequences of other thriller films, and researching pictures to give us inspiration as to what we could use for our own opening sequence. We came up with many different ideas of what we wanted our sequence to look like. In the end we came the decision that we wanted our sequence to be unconventional, so we decided to go down the psychological route. We had many idea of what we could base an opening sequence on like unconventional phobias. This idea seemed very approachable at the time, and we looked up many different types of phobias, which could have been a good idea to base a film around like, time, isolation and people. However, one thing that stood out to up the most was the idea of parallel worlds. We based our opening sequence around one man and his perception on how things appear to be one thing but actually they turn out to be another.  We came up with an idea, which involved one image of the world rising up and then splitting into two to show parallel world.  However, once we started planning our ideas, we realise that the concept would have probably been better than the execution, as after talking to Matt and Luke, it proved to be a lot harder than we initially thought it might have been.

Our new idea is one that is still based on the perception of the world, but mainly focuses around one man, and his inability to see things how everyone else does. It starts with our main character walking down the street and we have an establishing shot of how the world in perceived and then we cut to him with a POV shot in his office and everything around him is tidy and the we quickly cut to another shot of everything untidy and ‘messed up’. We decided that this would be the basic idea for our video and then we went on and created a story behind the opening sequence, to make it make sense. We made the main protagonist a male, with a well paid job and a nice apartment, to show how one can drop within society over something which is uncontrollable. We argued that this way the gradual deterioration we would see throughout the film would be more drastic, creating a bigger impact for the audience.

Planning our film sequence

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