Initial Ideas

We have been coming up with new ideas for our film opening. Here is a outline of our new plan. We will now storyboard these ideas.

London Spy

I have been enjoying the new BBC2 spy thriller London Spy and we can use it in addition to the case of the death of MI6 agent Gareth Williams (an article about the case can be found here) as inspiration for our film opening, in which a girl stumbles across a suspicious suitcase in a wood. London Spy further shows that the thriller is a popular genre as it pulled in 2.5 million viewers on its first episode.

We may be able to use some of the shots of the main character, Danny, discovering a suspicious chest in the attic as inspiration for shots in our film opening.

A slightly high angle, almost POV, shot of the chest

A mid shot of Danny's reaction

Close up of Danny reaching to open the chest

Most of the shots in this part of London Spy have a long duration, which really effectively builds suspense and tension, so this is something else we would want to make sure we included in our film opening.

Change of plan

As our original group wasn't working out, we decided to split so now Group 4 consists of myself and Kirti. We have also changed our idea, but maintained that the genre will be thriller.

In concise terms, our idea is that a young woman is walking through a wood and she discovers an abandoned suitcase.

This idea is much simpler and so will be easier to shoot, which allows us more time to think about how we will reflect the genre in the way it is shot and edited and through sound design. We have also established which location we will be using and I will post the photos of the storyboards we created today in my next post.

Shot Ideas

Last week we were thinking about the shots we would use in our film opening and wrote them down, which is shown here:

Some of these need refining but this is our initial list. The next step will be to storyboard these ideas. 

Gogglebox Task

Here is a version of Gogglebox that we made, which has helped to improve our editing skills.

Our 25 Word Pitch

Here is our 25 word pitch for the film opening we are going to make, as well as a really useful discussion with the class afterwards. I think our next move is to clarify which locations we are going to use and start to think about how we will hint at the film's genre (which is a thriller) in the 2 minute opening. Another factor that we will have to consider is who will play the 'interviewer' in the piece.