Main Task/Preliminary Task Brief

For our main task we were asked to create the opening credits to a film, which was to last for a maximum of two minutes. Because we had already studied alot of thrillers and it was decided that this would be the obvious choice to make, as we were more familiar with this genre.

To begin with i had to decide what sort of thriller i was going to create, such as Action Thriller, Horror thriller ect... i shortly analysed two thrillers (Psycho from the 1960's, and the more recent Se7en) to see how they created there opening sequences. After i had decided which genre to use i developed my ideas and began to produce storyboards and research into my film until i had a rough idea of what i wanted to produce.

For our Preliminary task we had to create a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. The task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. Refer back to previous posts.