Planetational Studios Logo

This logo of the distribution company that my team created will be used in the opening of our team's thriller.

General film opening

In a general film opening to any genre, has majority the same layout as each others. As they all open up with the distribution and filming companies' logos, that help along with giving filming equipment or to help in general to make the film a success. This clip of the Warner Brothers Pictures logo, that flies and transforms into the New Line Cinema logo and then another film companies appears- Walden Media. This will give me some ideas of how the first few seconds of any genre film opening is and how it will look if I apply my own logos like these film companies did to my thriller opening. The following opening sequence from the film clip of Se7en shows me an example of a thriller opening will look like with the opening credits. This will give me some inspiration to create an opening to my thriller excellent and successful. As this clip to the film is a thriller, it will be a very good example of a thriller opening,that can help me to create my thriller;this gives me a idea of certain footage and titling that's used in an opening to a thriller. This clip is from a 2014 film- X men: Days of Future Past, this isn't a thriller but an film opening that's uses strong special effects in the opening credits. This will give some examples of special effects to uses in my thriller and how they are applied to the film opening to create a strong,in - depth effect on the audience to make them watch and enjoy the rest of the movie. All these clips of how a film opening sequence looks like and show me how my thriller should look like if I follow these existing film opening sequences.

Raw footage of the thriller In Thus Life

First put together of the clips/footage to create the opening to my team's thriller. We applied some special effects to the clips, however the opening requires further work. So this is just a starting point for my team to have a guide to help us make the opening to a thriller a success.

Meeting with Commisioning Editor

IN THUS LIFE script

IN THUS LIFE                                                                                                      

DATE  WRITTEN 12 TH  DECEMBER  2014

DIRECTED  BY SHAUN  HARDWICK  AND  RYAN  PARSONS

PRODUCED BY SHAUN HARDWICK  AND  RYAN PARSONS

SCRIPTWRITER BY  TIM  LOWDON

SCRIPT 1

SCENE 1 – THE OPENING

 

 

ESTABLISHING  SHOT  OF THE SCENE – TUPTON BRIDGE

 

DURATION – 30 SECONDS

 

MAIN  MALE  CHARACTER  WALKING  FROM  THE RIGHT TO  LEFT. WALKING TO THE CENTRE OF THE BRIDGE, LOOKING  OUT TO  THE  TRAIN  TRACK..

 

CLOSE UP OF THE  MALE CHARACTER  AND  MID – SHOT IS USED IN THE FIRST 30 SECONDS OF THE OPENING TO THE THRILLER..

 

VOICEOVER:

 

JAMES GREEN:   WHY  AM  I  HERE ? (LOOKING  OUT TOWARDS THE TRAIN TRACK )

 

JAMES GREEN:   WHO  AM  I ?

 

FLASHBACK……..

 

GHOSTLY  CHARACTER  APPEARS IN A  DARK  ROOM  IS WALKING TOAWRDS THE CAMERA,

AND  SWINGS A KNIFE AT (TOWARDS) THE CAMERA.

 

FLASHBACK…    (BACK  TO THE BOY)

 

DURATION - 10 SECONDS

 

THE BOY  WHO  IS FAST ASLEEP IN A CHAIR IN A CLASSROOM, SUDDENLY WAKES UP FROM THE FLASHBACK  OF THE  GHOSTLY  CHARACTER.

 

THE TEENAGE BOY IS PUZZLED AND  LOOKING  AROUND TO SEE WHAT HAS JUST HAPPENED.

THEN FALLS BACK TO SLEEP IN THE CHAIR.

 

FLASHBACK…

 (HOLMGATE PARK)

 

DURATION – 20 SECONDS

 

TEENAGER  BOY  IS  WALKING  PEACEFULLY  THROUGH  THE TREES IN THE PARK..

THEN PASSES A TREE AND  LOOKS AT THE PATH  NEXT TO  HIM.

AS HE SEES THE GHOSTLY  CHARACTER  WALKING , LOOKS AT  HIM , THEN  RUNS TOWARDS  HIM.

 

HE TURNS  HIS  HEAD  FROM  RIGHT TO  LEFT THEN  LOOKS BACK  AND  SEE  NOTHING  IS THERE.

 

JAMES GREEN : AM… I  DREAMING , IF SO  WAKE  UP.

 

TITLING  SEQUENCE WITH FOOTAGE ON JAMES GREEN PHOTOGRAPHS, MEDICIAL REPORTS AND LOCATIONS

DURATION  - 25 SECONDS

 

BUS PARK

 

DURATION – 25 SECONDS

 

JAMES GREEN WALKING THE PATH TO  HIS OLD SCHOOL AS  HE IS  GOING  TO  WALK  DOWN TO A TREE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BUS PARK.

 

LONG  SHOT TO  CLOSE UP OF JAMES GREEN WALKING DOWN THE PATH AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PATH.

THEN 180 DEGREES ROTATION AS HE PASSES THE CAMERA..

 

MID SHOT OF HIM  WALKING  AND  STOPPING  AT THE TREE.

 

AS HE STOPS HE LOOKS TO  HIS LEFT- HANDED SIDE .

 

CAMERA  IS NOW  FOCUSED  ON THE FEMALES  LEGS WALKING  FROM  LEFT TO  RIGHT.

LOW ANGLE CLOSE UP OF THE FEET.

 

THEN, CLOSE UP OF THE FEMALES FACE  LOOKING  AT THE BOY WHO’S STANDING  AT THE TREE.

 

SHOT / REVERSE SHOT BETWEEN THE TWO  CHARACTERS.

 

JAMES GREEN : HELP  ME, PLEASE

 

ELLA SHORT : ARE YOU THERE? (DOESN’T  HEAR  HIM )

 

JAMES GREEN:  PLEASE DON’T GO. (RUNS TO  HER)

 

AS HE IS RUNNING TO  HER, HE SLOWS DOWN AS GHOSTLY CHARACTER RUNS TO  HIM.

ON THE  LAST SHOT, IT IS A TWO  SHOT WILL THEM  BOTH RUNNING  TO  EACH  OTHER.

 

THEN THE TITLE….

 

IN THUS LIFE.

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