Wednesday 3 March 2010

Opening sequence - Ideas and Planning

When thinking of ideas for our opening sequence we had a massive brainstorm and took everyone's ideas into account. After choosing the genre of drama thriller, we planned and planned until we narrowed it down to the final idea.

Our
first idea was to have a teenage boy totally obsessed with a girl whom he has pictures of and various other obvious signs that he has been stalking her, we felt that this would give us good opportunities to include various camera shots and effects that will create the right feel. We then decided this idea was too complicated and that we couldn't carry it out practically so, we came up with idea 2.

Idea 2 was to have a teenage girl coming out of a club in the early hours of the morning with us following her home, she would be spaced out and in her own world then return home from her crazy unknown lifestyle to her parents shouting and her sister in bed. We came to the decision that this idea would be too boring and would not give us the opportunity to include the variety of shots that we wanted.

Moving on to
idea 3, this idea was to base the story on a murderous couple who have committed several kidnaps and murders, and their relationship together. We had decided to use this idea.

We want to include ideas from Bonnie & Clyde in the main storyline. Also, Myra Hindley & Ian Brady. We will base our characters on the couples and have them as a murder obsessed couple of the modern day. The storyline of the film will involve the abduction and murder of a young girl much like the way in which B&C and H&B carried out their murders. A film had been made based on the Moors Murders by Hindley and Brady called "See No Evil" (2006).

Original photo

Remake in
See No Evil

Locations
We decided on the location based on the fact that is extremely easy to access for our group which is the city of Peterborough. We have decided to film some of it at night and some in the day to give a range of scenes. The main part of the video will be a sort of montage of the life together of the couple so we will film some at night to make it look like they are on their way home from a night out in town, also having a picnic in the park to show their loving side.
We took several pictures of locations around the back streets in Peterborough at night so we could evaluate them and choose the best ones to include in the video.

We like the location of this as it is quite dark, showing that it is errie and seemingly dangerous. The town hall is visible in the background too so people can see that it is in the town centre.




As soon as we saw this door, we kew we had to use it in the night sequence of our film. There is a step just infront of the door which would be perfect for Kourtney and Jacob to sit on. The street lights create a yellow glow which adds to the eerie feel.



I like this location because it is brightly lit meaning we wouldnt have to add artificial light. You can also see right down the road to asda showing that it is a public area and that the two characters are keeping a low profile.


This shot is taken down an alleyway which are usually an indication of danger. Kourtney and Jacob could walk down here at night which I think would look quite good.




We want to include a shot of the underpass between the Key Theatre and the main shopping area in town. This is quite a private location and would enable us to begin to shot the intimacy between the two characters.

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