Context

Our film is about a girl whos sister was murderd and taken from her but she still wakes up everyday imagining her there. She remebers the night it happened every day and she is looking to find the reason in which she was killed. She is determinded to find the killer of her sister and find out the reasons for doing it.

Response to Idea

I really like our idea of an opening sequence of a film. I think that its believable as an opening sequence and i can imaging the film being real. I have liked the idea right the way through and with both of our ideas we have produced a very good opening sequence. I think it was a good target audience to pick as it is aimed at people our age so we knew what we would like to see in a film. Also, both of us are interested in these sort of films anyway so it made it more enjoyable to create and make it.

Inspiration

Our main inspiration for our opening sequence was 'P.S. I Love You' as in that film the woman looses her husband but still imagines him with her and we got that idea from that film.We chose this film for our inspiration as it is a very good film and the target audience is the same as ours and also a similar genre. The story line of our film is completely different and it is less of a romantic and more of a drama but still a tear jerker film.

Initial Idea for Group

My first idea for out opening sequence was to do a chick-flick with 4 completely different girls who all get put together for an assignment at school. i really liked this idea but when it came to it, it wouldn't have worked as there were only two of us in our group and we would have had to rely on so many people to get it done and we didn't want to risk it.

Then we came up with the idea of doing a sad film. We had the idea of doing a boyfriend and girlfriend or husband and wife laying together in bed but the audience would not no the boyfriend/husband was dead and it was just the girl imagining him there in her hear every morning. But due to certain circumstances we had to change this idea to having a girl who lost her sister.

How Planned Opening Fits With Research

We looked at alot of opening sequences to try and get a bit more information about the codes and conventions. We noticed that almost all of the opening sequences start with and establishing shot that either pans or zooms. We also started our opening sequence of a pan of the charater Lucy's room as this is where the film starts. Also, they normally start with a sound strack or song over the top to give the audience an idea of the mood of the film. Again, we chose to put a classical sad soundtrack over our opening sequence to make the audience wonder why the character is sad which makes them want to watch on. The flash back in our story makes the narrative more exciting as it is not the classical way to start a film but this makes our opeining sequence more interesting. The main way our opening sequence fits with others is having a voice over, this gives the audience all the information they need to know and gets them more intersted into the film.