R+P Post 8: Our opening sequence idea, to include sound and titles

Our opening sequence is as follows (taken from our group timeline) 

• The first shot is a skyline of London with The name of the film "404" is edited in. During this shot there is no music just the sound of traffic and the city. 
• The next shot is a title shot "a film 4 production"
•   Immediately after the shot goes to a USB being taken out of a computer, this immediately puts emphasis on the computer and connotes or genre of Cyber-thriller well.
• We then get a extreme close up of the USB which further puts draws the audiences attention to the USB.  
• This then quickly transitions to a montage of our main character typing at a computer. Within this montage there are several titles embedded between the shots.The montage ends with the hacker putting a USB into his pocket. 
•  The scene then changes to our hacker on a train in an empty carriage with his hood up to avoid drawing attention to himself. He then  walks off the platform.
• It then cuts to the hacker walking in the streets. The shot then changes to the exact same shot but on CCTV footage. This then zooms out to show someone watching him. This gives the audience the idea he is being carefully surveyed and followed. 
• The scene then cuts back to the hacker walking in the streets. He realises he is being followed by someone and begins to run. He runs into an alleyway but is cornered. and pushed against the wall. After a quick conflict the hacker throws the person on the floor. His phone then falls out and begins to ring. 
• The shot then fades to black with the text "24 hours earlier" 

 
Sound effects in our cinematic created a sense of genre, atmosphere and suspense. We used: footsteps and punching sounds to add to the realism of the situation (for a sense of atmosphere and suspense), and used typing sounds to connote the cyber genre. 
 
The following titles will appear in our sequence

• 2 Production Companies
• Main actor
•  Director
•  Music Composer
• Casting
• Visual Effects

http://www.artofthetitle.com/

The website ‘art of the title’ gave our group inspiration of opening sequences. We were able to base our opening on various examples that we saw and follow the conventions that film opening sequences have. We followed the convention of having the actors’ names as well as various people involved with the production of the film such as the director. 

Enemy of the state inspired us to have a extreme long shot of the city to emphasise setting in our opening sequence. Not only this but it also followed the conventions of having actor's names. In our own opening sequence we had an ELS of a London city to connote the London setting as well as having our actors' names come up on screen. 

A london setting  (opening shot)

The use of ECU and CU’s in Se7en gave us inspiration to use CUs in our opening sequence. Some of these shots include, shots of typing, the hacking scenes, walking (CU on feet) etc. We wanted to emphasise the importance of the actions being taken although keep everything in suspense. #

Whilst we didn’t have a specific inspiration for the style we were inspired to develop our own ideas to suit our film. We noticed that when actor’s names are mentioned it doesn’t include things such as ‘starring’ or ‘acted by’ it just has their names. We also noticed that the darkness of shots connotes the genre such as in se7ven as it is very dark.