PRACTICE FILM OPENING

Finest Day

After taking an extensive look at the opening of the French film "Delicatessen" and saw how the camera panned over a multitude of objects. The objects are put in specific positions, this is to convey a story to the audience. "Delicatessen" used the labels of the objects to display the names of the producers.

Once we had fully analysed "Delicatessen"  we were introduced to the song "Nostalgia" by Emily Barker. Slow and sombre song, which is now as the opening for the crime TV show named "Wallander". As a group, we noticed the impact of the line "a door that shouldn't be in front of me".

Using inspiration from "Delicatessen" we thought of ways in which we could use the top-down perspective to convey a story to the audience, without using any live-action. We were then told that we would have to incorporate the song by Emily Barker into the top-down(table-top) opening.  

Then we chose what props we thought would be appropriate to show the audience the story we wanted to tell. We wanted to tell the story of an assassination, that leads to unforeseen consequences. So to show this we chose: Money, a gun, briefcase, a newspaper based around a tragedy, a false snake, blood-covered rags and police hat. Once the props were in place, we began doing test runs. In these test runs, we would, without recording, practice a path for the camera to move along. This meant when it came to filming the camera would pan across smoothly. 

Once we were happy with the footage we had recorded, we set about filming the live-action part of the film opening. We wanted to keep the theme of mystery, so we wanted to make the audience ask questions. To do this we dressed Alex in an overcoat and hat the obscured his face from the camera.