Initial Idea

Our initial idea is to have dusk or dawn set scene in a wood with two guys, in long trench coats and spades, digging a whole to dump a body, the body bag is at the side of them. A woman is walking through the woods, when she comes through a bush when she sees this burial; you then hear her running and heavy breathing. Then cuts to the credits, then cuts to a blank black screen then an animated back ground comes on (we might not be able to do this as we will not have the correct software), you start to hear a males voice when he asks a question then a female answers, then credits start to fade on, while voices are still going, then credits fade away. Then cuts to a close up of the females face, then slowly zooms out and starts to reveal the room.(Alex Mutu)

I am taking the idea from "THE GODFATHER" when the opening scene is a close up of someones face then slowly zooms out to reveal the whole room. I will use this on the scene after the credits, because this will creat a good atmosphere after what she has just witnessed.(Alex Mutu)

Planning

we decided to do a thriller, before we did our own thriller we looked at many thriller openings and film, some being "GODFATHER" "CHILDREN OF MEN" "SIN CITY" "HEAT" and by my self I have watched many such as "PULP FICTION" "TAXI DRIVER" "RAGING BALL" " THE SHINING". After watching these films I discussed it with my group, we then came up with some ideas from these movies. (Alex Mutu).


We all started discussing possible ideas, we came up with many. Some of the opening scenes we thought of started with a crime scene, witnessing a murder, an invasion of aliens(sci-fi)and also a thriller mixed with a romance, where a cop is emotionally involved with a case. We finally came up with a final idea where a woman is walking through the woods, when she witnesses a murder, set in the woods, it then cuts to the credits with eerie music and the credits coming on as if they were fading on and fading off. Then you hear voices although the credits are still on, it then fades to a woman(the witness) of a close up of the face, then goes to a steady zoom out to them you see the whole scene.(Alex Mutu, Pat Henbury).

Research

We all started to research thriller movies today, to look for ideas about our own we looked at a few films including.

The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Rear Window (1954)
Cidade de Deus (2002)
Fight Club (1999)
Psycho (1960)
The Usual Suspects (1995)

Our personal favourite was defiantly The Godfather the intro we found really effective with the man face slowing zooming out. It makes the intro quite mysterious as throughout the whole intro you are left guessing who is this man, who is he talking to and where he is. It defiantly made me won’t to watch the rest of the film just to see what was going to happen with this man. (Alex Diss)