Our Ideas

Hi!

When it came down to brainstorming different ideas that we could potentially use for our film opening, we struggled as a group. The immediate aim for our group was that we wanted to be different; we wanted to show an alternative opening film than most people do (horror). Although we wanted to display an unconventional opening that not many people had done before, we still wanted to assess the possibility of doing a horror.

So firstly we looked at the quirky and different genres we could perhaps use for our opening film. We narrowed it down to either tragedy or action as an alternative to horror. We researched tragedy films such as Titanic in order to get an idea of what we would need to create if we wanted to produce a strong tragedy opening scene. However we decided against the tragedy genre. This was mainly because we felt that as we were all boys we’d prefer to work with a genre that we’re all fans of and would hopefully therefore be more motivated and have better ideas of how to create a top grade opening credits. So as a result of this we moved on to taking a closer look at the action genre. We researched a few films which included; Robocop, Die Hard and The Terminator. All 3 of the films were mentioned in our documentary that can be seen on my blog. We really felt that action was going to be a challenge as we wouldn’t be working with the same types of budgets that Hollywood directors were able to use for the most critically acclaimed action films, however we felt that we could still produce an interesting and unique take on the action genre.

As well as deciding on the genre that we would use, we also needed to decide upon a general idea for our film. We drew a blank in this department and made the foolish mistake of not even brainstorming ideas! Therefore we went for a fairly simple idea that was related to a previous video we had shot. Our shot tracking video named “The Mugging” was left on somewhat of a cliff-hanger so we decided to finish this ongoing story. It was a simple idea to just shoot a revenge tale in which the character who gets mugged in the original can get their own back on the muggers. Although it was not the most innovative idea, we were happy with the potential of what we could do with it and how we could link it in with the action genre that we have already chosen. 

See you soon!