Category: Preliminary Task

The Final Opening Sequence

The final product for the Preliminary Task

Genre and Theme

For my preliminary task, The genre I am going to choose is going to be similar with my final product. Thriller, Mystery and Crime. These three are going to be playing a major part in both of film openings.

1-Thriller is a genre of fiction, having numerous, often overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. Successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Thrillers generally keep the audience on the “edge of their seats” as the plot builds towards a climax. The cover-up of important information is a common element.Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, and cliffhangers are used extensively. A thriller is usually a villain-driven plot, whereby they present obstacles that the protagonist must overcome.

2- Mystery is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved. Often with a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually provided with a credible motive and a reasonable opportunity for committing the crime. The central character will often be a detective who eventually solves the mystery by logical deduction from facts presented to the reader. Sometimes mystery books are nonfictional. “Mystery fiction” can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense element and its logical solution such as a whodunit ( (a colloquial elision of “Who [has] done it?” or “Who did it?”).

3- Crime,  detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel: These terms all describe narratives that center on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a serious crime, generally a murder. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as historical fiction or science fiction, but the boundaries are indistinct. Crime fiction has multiple sub-genres including detective fiction (such as the whodunit), courtroom drama, and legal thrillers. Most crime drama focuses on crime investigation and does not feature the court room. Suspense and mystery are key elements that are nearly ubiquitous to the genre

These three are going to be the genres for both of my film openings.

Story and Plot

The story starts from a family, already on a trip. The children of the family decides to explore and roam the place, being rebellious. They enter a zone which seems to be prohibited. The children while exploring, comes across a strange dump where the smell becomes strong and trying to find the source, they find a decaying body.

The story orbits around these children and how they try to solve the mystery while simultaneously getting themselves into an even bigger trouble.

The opening sequence would end on the dead body, and the opening sequence would introduce our main characters and our conflict.

Storyboarding

The next step on the preliminary task was to make a storyboard. A storyboard is a graphic representation of how your video will unfold, shot by shot. It’s made up of a number of squares with illustrations or pictures representing each shot, with notes about what’s going on in the scene and what’s being said in the script during that shot.

This was the storyboard and now we can move forward to other tasks and then eventually, the production and post-production stages.

The Location

We shot the entire sequence in a secluded area near Murree, with the cast which consisted of 4 people total.

Shooting

The shooting process took a while but since we did not needed any kind of prop, the over all process wrapped up quickly. It took us almost an hour to complete.

Editing

The editing process also did not took much time, since most of it was basic editing. The clips are edited similarly, with the exposure, the light and the saturation being on low, and the shadows and contrast on high. The white balance is also on the cooler side. All of the editing is done on Premiere Pro.

And all of this concludes the production process. The only remaining task is the final product.