Initial Ideas For Main Task (3)

After further discussing our film opening we felt it was unsuitable to do a comedy based video due to the technical limitations of sound on the cameras, and also due to the lack of different camera angles found in comedy openings. We now had two more concepts which had originated from a team brainstorm. Our first idea was a horror style film opening.

Whilst initially discussing the horror/comedy concept we came up with a collection of different and interesting ideas for the horror element of the video. We decided to recycle some of our more interesting horror ideas from the "Scary movie" style concept and impliment them into our new concept. We decided we were going to have a hostage tied to a chair, who had been tortured and was under some form of questioning. We felt this would be intense and interesting to our audience. We wanted to use a variety of different shots such as an extreame close ups on an eye looking around panicked. We felt this would give a sense of panic.

Se7en film opening
A 1995 thriller about two detectives trying to solve a case of linked murders done in the theme of the seven deadly sins. The film helped especially at the beginning as it didn't give much as away and kept us the viewer guessing about the real plot of the movie.

Our second idea we came up with from the team brainstorm was a physological thriller. We liked this idea as it would allow us to be creative with plot details and to experiment with unusual camera angles. We began to look into "physcological thriller" films as the beginning of these films that didn't include much dialouge and challenged the audience to think. This appealed to us because we didn't want just the "predictable" scary, horror film. The films which appealed to us to match our prefrences were "Shutter Island" and "Law Abiding Citizen". The plot of these two films are complex and very challenging to the mind of the viewer. This influenced us to create an opening sequence of our film to the genre of a "physcological thriller".

Shutter Island film opening
Set in the 1950's set around a mental institution named 'Shutter island' You follow two so called detectives solving what they think is the case of a missing person.