Initial Ideas

The intial ideas that our group have had are as follows below: A young man of an age of 21 leaves his home to meet his girlfriend who is overprotective/borderline skitzophrenic. To show that she is messed up, we'll shoot a scene of her in her room with pictures of her and her boyfriend everywhere but her boyfriend's face has been scribbled out of each picture she has loads of makeup on and she is crying with cut writsts with blood trickling onto her bed. The room will have low key lighting and could possibly be shot in black and white to emphasise the abnormality of her character.


He takes a shortcut to his friends house but, in doing so, he has to walk down a very dark alleyway. (The alleyway is key)As he walks down the alleyway he gets hit over the head with a rock, subsequently knocking him unconcious and then he gets robbed of his wallet. (We haven't yet decided what shot to use for this yet, we have thought to use either a point of view shot of the attacker or of the young man or a shot-reverse-shot.) The next shot reveals that the attacker is actually his girlfriend, she then kisses him on the cheek and chucks his wallet on the floor.

The chosen genre my partners and I have decided to represent in our short two minute film opening is the genre of suspense which is Crime/Love Thriller. Crime/Love Thriller we decided was an easy but effective type of genre where we could apply into our film opening quite comfortably. We examined a number of film openings to gain some valuable ideas to help us plan our beginning. The film we finally choose to base our film around is "Da Vinci Code" as its consists of many simular aspects we are atempting to apply to our film opening. During the duration of the upcoming week i will be posting our storyboard for this production and a short essay on how we applyed the ideas from The Da Vinci Code into our production.