Opening Sequence research :)

Rachel and I are creating a movie opening for our final project. In the beginning of our movie, it is all in black and white. There is a 50's woman running away from a killer. She goes through a door and hides. When she comes back through the door, the killer is gone and she has been transported into the future. She runs through the town where the colour has changed from black and white to full technicolour. The woman is full of fear as she slowly realises that she is trapped in the modern world.
The video above is a good example of a woman running away from something. It is a clip from "kiss me deadly." The techniques that are used in this clip set the mood very well so we could use these techniques to show the fear that has struck our character. The audience don't know why the woman is running until later on and this is the effect that we want to create. We want to set the scene so it is obvious that she is in the 50's before we let the audience know what is going on. We don't want things to be obvious from the start so we want to let out little bits of information at a time to keep the audience interested. The video above does this as there is no information as to why she is running or what she is running away from so the audience have to keep watching to find out whats going on.
We have to carry out research and found openings for movies that included these components so we could film our movie in a way that would represent what we wanted.
  
In "The Wizard of Oz," Dorothy starts off in a sepia tone world. This is her home town of Kansas and this is what starts off the film. Later on in the film she gets caught up in a tornado and gets transported into a new technicolour world. This film was one of the first to use technicolour which made it extremely special in it's time. The techniques used in this film represent Dorothy's confusion and presents to the audience the sense of being lost and in a foriegn land. Dorothy is confused and doesn't know whats happening. She is in a world that she has never been in before and it is all new and scary. We want our character to have the same effect on the audience as Dorothy had as she presented forward the idea of a girl trapped in a strange world. Dorothy had the fearful attitude and the confusion that we need from our character.

opening sequence research continued :)

TV dramas that include time travelling are Ashes to Ashes and Life on Mars. They both start off slower than our movie sequence will but they both have the same type of storyline. Both programmes show the confusion of being thrown into a time zone that is out of the ordinary. In these two programmes the confusion of the characters is represented by the camera spinning around the character showing the world around them and making them look disorientated. This would be good to use in our own video as our character is thrown into a time that is not her own so she would have the same confusion as the characters in the TV dramas. The representation of both characters in these dramas is very clear and there is a story before they go back in time that tells the audience everything they need to know about this character. In our video however, we want to purposely create a sense of confusion so that the audience don't know anything about the character before she goes forward in time and learns everything they need to know throughout the film.





Both include modern day police officers trapped in the past but our movie will include a woman from the 50's in the future instead.