Film Opening Research

We began researching into action film openings and looked at the format and the order of events in which things happened. We studied the use of the establishing shots and other interesting angles; this would be useful in terms of ideas for our film.

 In this clip from James, we paticularly liked the the establishing shot which panned from left to right. It really sets the scene and the wideness of the shot makes the location seem quite big. In addition there are also other interesting angles such as the spy camera point of view shots and the zoomed in shots.

Establishing shot from James Bond which pans from left to right

This clip from reservoir dogs inspired us a lot because the walk scene was our main inspiration for a certain part of our intro, we want to use similiar camera angles and find a song with a strong bass line to give a certain 'criminal' feeling.  This make the characters seem 'cool' and tells the audience more about the attitude
of the characters.

This clip is taken from the film 'The Dark Knight'. We were very intersted in the establishing shot of the city which zoomed into a building and from there the action began. Also we liked the way the camera panned around certain characters and props for example the machine used to brake into the safe in the bank.

Looking at previous opening scenes has given us a lot more ideas to experiment with. We are going to be very creative in terms of camera angles and shots to make our film different from the rest of the action films.