inspiration for our film
Firstly we looked at the opening sequence of ‘Skins’. It started with a panning shot of the woods which gave the establishing shot the right atmosphere and genre. I like how it made the setting look intense and the charactors look mysterious. It makes the audience automatically wonder whats going to happen. So gives the genre a horror/murder mystery theme. For our inspiration we have taken the skeleton of this storyline and made it into our own. We liked the beginning sequence of the panning shot and the intenceness. We like some angles of the shots (close ups of some charactors, establishing shot). And last of all we liked the style of acting, to show the worried and scared state.
We then looked at the opening sequence of ‘True Blood’. For the opening sequence there was a flicking of different images such as dead animals, children playing on swings. The editing used here was very effective as they used methods such as black and white, sepia and old style film. This was only the opening sequence with credits but it seemed to tell and show the whole story line in a few seconds. I found this really effective and decided for the opening credits we would use a similer style.
So overall we decided that we are going to use the style of both ‘Skins’ and ‘True Blood’ to make our opening sequence as effective and intense as possible.