25th February 2010 - Research On Genre

For our genre we have mixed together a sort of teen drama with muder mystery. We have been inspired by past film openings and have combined the two together to create our own film.
The murder mystery part came from the film "Brick".

This video however, is a remake done by some students but this shows the same scene and shots as the actual film "Brick". From this you can see the sort of ideas we want to use for our own film opening. We couldn't find the actual opening on Youtube so we had to make do with this.

In this opening we see close ups of the dead character and it cross cuts between 2 things happening at the same time. We decided we want to take this idea and include it into our own film. We like this idea because it leaves mystery to the character and helps to show the other character as it cross cuts between the two. This works nicely for the sort of genre we decided to do.

We have also been inpired by the film opening of "Juno" as we are also have the idea of someone walking in and out of each other the shots.

This shows similar ideas of the walking we plan to include in our opening scene as it follows the character as it enters different locations.
We thought using some ideas similar to this in the walking would go well with our plan as it helps pass time and fits nicely with the cross cutting of the dead character.
Also, it works well with music playing at the same time as it gives insight to how the character is feeling and sets the scene.



We also looked at the 'Sliding Doors' film opening and this shows a character walking towards somewhere and the camera shots show her walking from one side of the scene to the other to show that she is still walking the same way. It also shows the cross cutting between the 2 scenes that are happening at the same time. This is the sort of film opening we wnat to put together.