The way our film uses sounds and different shots camparing agent Carlson to the terrorist builds up suspense in the open sequence, this makes it come across as a Action/Adventure product in which we were trying to create for the audience.
Our opening sequence uses a vast amount of action and adventure conventions, for example the structure we have used is very snappy, we have fitted all of our shots close together and included action and/or dialogue continuously throughout to gain high intensity for the audience. We looked at many examples of opening sequences to get an idea of what Action and Adventure film openings would include such as the titles, credits and effects used to create the genre of the film. The style which we used to present our credits and titles was very clear and simple to make sure the viewer could easily read the titles and text displayed on screen. We got some great ideas by watching examples of opening sequences and how we would include credits. We watched Snatch and many James Bond films to get an idea of mise en scene, editing and sound.
When creeating the opening sequence of our film we didn't have much of a idea of how a film developed, for example the timings of when credits and text is displayed on screen. To understand this more easily we planned out a timeline with a two minute boundary. The film I chose to base my timeline on was 'Scarface' as I know that this uses a lot of titles at the start of the film and music also helps create suspsicion and suspense. This gave our group more of a idea when titles and sound needed to be included as we have compared our timings to a high standard film that's succesful, this will make our overal film better.
I believe that the structure of our opening sequence is that of a conventional action/thriller film. It firstly establishes the scene by using establishing shots, before introducing any of the characters and credits. Our sequence and structure for the film was to introduce Carlson early on in the film and try to relate agent Carlson to the terrorists, we used split screen shots of what both the terrorists and Carlson was doing. We used fade in and out to create smooth transitions, a common convention in opneing sequences. However, we did decide to challenge one of the conventions which was to have the credits at the start of the film so that they appeared over the relevant characters. We did this in order to make the sequence more logical.
The style and colour of our font was very basic, we wanted it to be seen as a thriller/action film and didn’t want any bright vivid colours to distract the audience from what’s going to happen, this would have worked very well for our film because, they cannote happiness instead of serious and down to business. We all gave ideas and opinions towards what font and colour was going to be used, we agreed that having a font that’s easy to read masculine and bold. We chose for the font to be in white, one reason for this was because it made the credits stand out over the top of the clip; where the clip was either in dark colouring or black and white. This font was applicable to creating the horror genre, mainly because if it were a more curvy and comedic font, the serious and eerie tone we aimed to achieve would be distracted from.
The genre chosen was Thriller/Action. This genre suited our group as it we are all males who areted in adventure. We did some formal research online to find out how the tension and drama was built up to make sure the audience know the genre of the film, we found out that sound is a key feature when creating an Action genre. The setting and location of our film was not as important, we used a friend’s house as we are students and do not have a limited budget towards our clip. The type of genre is also created through simplistic elements with the age of the actor being the same as the target audience.
The main element of enigma is through the mystery of what’s going to happen to agent Carlson’s daughter. We build up tension by showing agent Carlson look at a photo of his daughter, then cut to a shot of the terrorists getting ready to go on a mission to kidnap agent Carlson’s daughter. We used enigma well and we used different shots to create this effect, for example agent Carlson is getting ready for work doing up his tie, whilst the terrorists are arranging balaclavas and guns.
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