Research and Planning 8: Our opening sequence idea

Opening Sequence

Our opening sequence will start by showing an unknown man holding a ring in his hands. This shot will take place after the events of the film, so we will connote this difference by creating a dream-like effect through a grey filter. Following this, our scene shall depict a conversation between two of our film's main characters; Blake and Jen. Blake - an ex-police officer who has since become a private detective - has met his old colleague Jen in order to ask for her help in recovering a police file on a gang suspected of kidnapping his partner. Jen is reluctant to help as she has been fired as a police officer due to a gambling addiction, which is the reason for our setting of a poker game. The conversation will be very back and forth, with both characters getting an equal role. At the climax of the scene, two thugs at the table will get angry at Blake's comments and pull out their guns, but Jen will react to this and shoot the two men. We decided to have Jen shoot back rather than Blake because we didn't want Blake to be represented as a killer.

Titles

Our sequence will start with credits for our distributor, production company and director followed by the title of the film and the names of our actors. We will style our credits similarly to the credits of The Usual Suspects as it is one of the opening sequences with the most similarities to our own.

Setting
The setting of our opening sequence is a back alley poker game. The key factor of our setting is that the background area isn't visible. We chose to have a dark, black background as this makes it look as though the game is occurring in a memory: only the specific features of the scene are included. This effect was created in order to provide sustenance to our plot, in which the events of the film are a recollection of a story.