Today we began to organize our coursework project, for which we have to plan, film, edit and evaluate the opening to a film of any genre. We are working in groups of two and I am working with Coupy.
Firstly, we had to decide which genre of film we were going to create and managed to shortlist our ideas to four different possibilities:
- Romance
- Horror
- Crime
- Musical
However, later that lesson we decided that it would be too difficult to establish the opening of a film as a musical as we would not be able to open the film with any form of singing or dancing as this would be tacky and unprofessional.
Coupy and I began to brainstorm some ideas about what we would do for the opening of a crime scene and we came up with a few bad ideas, but one decent one. We thought that the story line would be about a murder and then the last part of the opening would show the investigation. We would use tracking shots to follow the murder around the house in order to create an air of suspense, and we would use fast pace cuts in order to achieve the same effect.
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