Seventh Draft

After watching the opening of Step Brothers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sczh_KjjFNU) we decided that we really liked the way that the production companies names appeared before any visuals and decided to attempt this with our film opening.
We put all our names at the beginning however it is a bit long to watch and ends up being very boring for the audience and also our footage became a bit full-on with out the name credits breaking it up

Credits Research

In lesson we watch film openings to a selections of films such as Babe, Derailed, Bourne Identity and In Bruges so that we could see where each film placed their credits to help us with our own film openings.
Most of the films had the production companies names appear, then credits and then the title of the film.

We've decided to move the title of our film to the start of the opening after a production company name and after that our names appear spreadout through our footage so that we can have sound before any footage is shown similar to all of these films which makes our film opening look more realistic.

Another Discussion On New Opening

On Friday we continued to discuss our film opening. We discussed locations, even though I think we should research more before even thinking about the location. However a little woodland path in Forty Hall was suggested aswell as large fields in Trent Park.
I think that we need to research more as the more we research the clearer our idea will be as one of the problems with our last attempt was poor research and not thinking absolutley every detail through.
We did brainstorm a few ideas and after watching a past media students coursework we discussed the idea of a woman waking up and not remembering the night before as she may have taken drugs on a night out.

Discussion about Film Opening

While editing our film we have often had trouble with the amount and quality of footage so as a group we decided to discuss our options; whether to carry on or start again.
We decided to start again as we believe after researching film openings we have a broader knowledge on them meaning we can make a much better film opening.
One of our problems was our opening had a resolution rather than beginning a story, which is something we will not do this second time.
We will have the filming equipment over Christmas break so that we have two weeks to film in.

We began to look at film openings and types of horror/thriller genres. A particular film opening that caught my attention was Donnie Darko

We spoke about a psychological thriller similar to that of Donnie Darko or The Sixth Sense. We liked the idea of someone either waking up in a strange place like Donnie Darko, or having strange flashback-like dreams.

Opening Credits

In research for our groups film opening it seems most films include credits of some kind during the establishing scenes, these may be very creative or very dull. This website explains the importance of opening credits and gives good examples of films with variating sequences.