POV shots and Luther

When we were editing our opening, we realised that the girl getting attacked was very out of the blue, so we decided to have a counterpoint by having some shots from the attackers POV, which would hopefully help to build tension. This is an idea that was inspired heavily by an opening of an episode of Luther that we watched and used early in the course for storyboarding practice.

The Life Of David Gale

Our group took our main inspiration from the opening to the film 'The Life of David Gale'. In this opening there is a very large air of mystery, with a woman running frantically running from something. We took the same air of panic and time running out for our opening, though in David Gale the woman is running to somewhere and in our opening she is running away from something, we took a great amount of ideas from this, such as the long shot of the female running.

Finding inspiration

Preceding the making of a film opening, it is helpful to watch films of the same genre as yours. Taking inspiration, ideas and techniques from other films can be extremely beneficial. For example, the year before last one group created a film opening called 'Distressed':

This clip was heavily influenced by the opening of the TV series released that year on BBC 1; 'Remember Me'

Unfortunately, 'Remember me' is produced and copyrighted by the BBC and so the video cannot be linked to.

The inspiration is evident, however, with  the multiple establishing shots in the begginning of the clip, mirroring the shots from 'Remember me'

The man looking at photos also parallels the original opening closely.

However the changes are also evident, as , inside of the sinister figure at the beach, the scene cuts to a girl playing the piano.