Final Film Opening Ideas

Within my group we decided to use one of our Thriller film opening ideas. this is because we thought it was the most interesting opening and we thought that we would be able to make it interesting with the different camera shots that we could use. 

Setting/Location: Maidstone Town Centre for the fast speed shots of cars and people walking. We will Film people going up and down escalators in a shopping center. The other setting we are going to use is in a Café in Rainham.

Characters: A Husband and Wife. The other character in our film opening will be the Abductor. Although there are three characters in our opening, in the actual clip you will only be able to se the Husband. We only hear the other two characters voices through the phone. 

Props: Husband character has all the props that we are going to use.

A Phone so that the abductor can call him to say he has kidnapped his wife.

A Drink that he buys when he walks into the Café.

His Wallet, that he used to pay for his drink, inside the wallet there is also a picture of him and his wife that we see just before he gets the phone call from the abductor.

The wallet also contains money, for the character to pay for his drink inside the café.

Costume: The husband will be in Casual clothes. A Jacket and jeans. If the weather is bad when we film the opening then the character could also be carrying a umbrella. We do not see the wife or the abductor so costumes are not needed for these characters.

Music: For the music in our opening, me and my group will either create some music on the Garageband application on the computer. Another thing we might use for the music is creating an original piece on garage band. We will also have a voice over of the husband talking in the beginning over the fast shots of people walking and cars driving.
Another thing that we are considering for our background music is a member of our group playing some short chords and strings on a guitar to create tension in our opening scene. 

Institution: The institution we are going to use for out film is ‘Universal Studios’
Film Age Rating Certificate: Age 15 Rating

Film Title: The title idea that we have for our film is ‘In Business’.
Editing Effects: Slow Motion, Music?, DrumBeat or HeartBeat, Heavy Breathing, Car Noise.

What Is Going To Happen In The Opening Of Our Film?

The title credits are shown over fast forwarded cars driving down a motorway. The camera then zooms in on a cars number plate and the number plate reads "In Business" which is the title of our film. We then see a man driving and the fast forwarded cars scene cuts to him getting out of a car at a petrol station. The man gets some petrol and as he goes inside walks to the counter to pay for the petrol. After this we see him pull out his wallet to pay. Inside is a picture of him and his wife looking happily married inside his wallet. Once he has his drink he sits down at the nearest table and receives a phone call from an unknown number.  He answers the phone and there is a strange male voice speaking to him. The voice tells him that he has kidnapped his wife, and that he told the man that he would get him. We hear his wife scream in the background of the phone call.  We then see a dramatic close-up shot of the husband and this is where our films opening scene will end

General Outline Of Our Film:

Section 1: Short clips of a city/town- A man then enters a café and buys himself a drink. He gets a phone call and hears his wife screaming down the phone and a man has abducted her.

Section 2: The man is trying to find help from police or anyone because of his wife's abduction. He starts to search online for a detective.

Section 3: The Husband meets the detective he finds and is quite frantic.  The detective calms him down and assures him he is professional and that he will find his wife.

Section 4: The husband follows the detective around to assist in the investigation and becomes more and more like the detective each time they search.

Section 5: The two men are ‘In Business’ together, on their search to find the abducted wife.

Section 6: The two get close to finding her but the lead they had was false.

Section 7: They then find another lead, but the have to travel to find her. 

Section 8: After a long time travelling, they find her and she is still captured with different traps surrounding her so that the two men cannot free her without getting hurt there selves. with a gun or bomb. Although the wife is there, Her abductor is nowhere to be seen.

Section 9: The wife is near death after having an asthma attack.

Section 10:  Wife is submitted to hospital after the two men save her. As soon as the wife is better the couple leave the country so that the abductor cannot find them.

We decided to change the setting of our film opening to a petrol station rather than a cafe because we thought that it would create more tension in our film opening. from this point on the setting will be mentioned as a petrol station. I have left the previous plans as theu are so that I can explain about our changing towards the end of creating our film opening.

Shots That We Are Going To Use In Our Opening:

Car speeding down the motor way, credits shown/ Camera tilts u p, facing the sky and film title appears or Film title is shown on a car number plate in the same font as the number plate.
Bridge- Camera pans/tilts up to sky to reveal the film title. 

Establishing shot of Petrol Station

Cut- CCTV film footage of man walking into the petrol station.
(Use CCTV footage to create tension as if there was someone watching the man walk into the petrol station)

Cut- Shifty camera to create the feeling that there is someone watching him from behind the post. Sound of breathing over this shot.

Cut- Match on action of man walking through the door
(MAKE SURE WE CAN'T SEE THE MAN'S FACE!)

Pan- Mid behind shot, as the man starts to walk up to the till.

Cut- Footsteps of man walking up still.

Another CCTV footage flick to add more suspense. 

Cut- Sweets: Man goes to pick up a packet of sweets. Point of view shot. Man grabs camera as if he were picking up the sweet's.

Shot of the mans pocket as he pulls out his wallet.

Cut- Wallet: see a picture of his wife inside wallet. 

Third CCTV footage flick- We hear the mans phone ring from CCTV footage, Then see man get phone out and answer.

Zoom in shot on phone to show that the call is from an unknown number. 

Answers Phone: Show a side, close-up view of the man holding the phone against his ear as he answers.  shot of man on phone with a dead space behind him. Then see a figure move past the dead space. Pans round to his face nearly half a turn.

John (Man in petrol Station) Answers the phone: "Hello".
Creepy unknown voice quickly cuts in when the man is saying hello and says

"Running, running, always running, John.  For I am the person of your nightmares. Her eyes so blue and innocent John, but soon they will be red with revenge. Has you merciless mind said my name yet John? My legacy will soon be your reality. Soon I will watch her, So peaceful, So Quiet, So Still, So Dead John?" 

Hear the man in petrol stations wife say: John? Help? (Panicked and Scared)

Close-up on 'John's' hand holding the phone. He moves the phone down to his side. He drops the phone. The last shot we see is John's dropping towards the floor.
This is where our opening scene is going to end.

The Film Title Fonts:

The title of the film is going to be called In Business. If we decide to have the title shown on a car number plate it will look like this: 

"BU51N355"
If we decide to have the film title appear in the sky above the speeding cars then we shall keep the number plate font and have in appear in the sky.  

Names For The Credits:

Media Conglomerate: 20th Century Fox

Studio: Jerry Bruckheimer Films

Produced By: Ted Elliot & Luc Besson 

Directed By: Tony Scott

Starring: James Beaumont, Hannah Lovell, Adam Stone, Stephen Jones, Gary Quinto

Casting Director: Harith Smith

Music By: Jessica Seaney

Editor: Harrison Millner

Executive Producer: Jack Ammon

Written By: Luc Besson, Bill Marsilii