Initial response to brief

Our brief was to create an opening sequence for our own film. We needed to be able to incorporate all of the techniques that we have learnt so far on the course, and experiment with a wide range of shots, creative titles, and seamless and/or inventive editing in order to develop a piece of work with high quality. Our task was to select a film genre, may be it : horror, science fiction, action/adventure,gangster/crime,romantic comedy, thriller and so on. We decided on thriller, simply because we wanted to pick a genre in which we could capture a wide range of interest shots, and create a sense of enigma and tension throughout, and believed these aspects that are key conventions of thriller films, would be ones that would make our film much more original and interesting, in order to hold our audiences full attention, and leave them feeling unnerved and eager to know more. We did consider horror but believed that on a 'low budget' production, we would not be able to convey the true depth that a horror film has to depict, and believed that if we tried to recreate a horrific opening, that we may not be able to scare our audience enough for it to be a successful sequence. We also considered doing a romantic comedy, but we believed that unless we found actors of an extremely high ability, that we would struggle to capture a realistic relationship, and we wanted to be able to make a film that displayed work to the best of our ability. I was really excited when I heard what our brief was and in our first brainstorm our sheet was spilling with ideas,suggestions, and illustrations, of what sort of things our film could include, our overly keen approach, allowed us to have a mountain of ideas to which we selected the best and condensed them together to create the basic story line of something we thought could have great potential.