In The Red

We decided that the best word that described the narrative was debt as the opening sequence shows how someone who
has owed money has come to collect it. However, we did not think that word really stood out or sounded dramatic and so we put it on thesaurus.com to see if there was anything else:

It was when we saw the list that we decided to call our film "In The Red" as it did not completely give the narrative away and we thought that most people of the audience may not completely know the meaning which would build enough suspense for the opening sequence to be a success.

Thinking of a name...

After showing our classmates our storyboard, we were constantly asked what the name was going to be, so, as a group, we thought about the narrative of the opening sequences and thought of names. Below shows what we came up with. We each thought of a word that we thought best related to the narrative and looked up other words with the same meaning to see if they sounded more effective.

Where did we get inspiration from...

There is no single film which as a group we based our film idea on. There are a varity of different films of the same genre which we considered whilst deciding the final idea for the opening sequence. We had decided that our opening sequence was not one set genre but many, it was a combination of UK drama and action. The films we considered ranged from the £600,000 Kidulthood/Adulthood; because of the fact that its a UK drama and the film's are aimed at a similar target audience, to multi million dollar blockbuster Taken, primarily for the infamous phone call scene and that one of the central characters gets kidnapped in our opening sequence. We looked at a lot of UK based films to gain inspiration for the credits, one film we looked at in particular was Football Factory, even though the films have entirely diverse plots, they're both drama/action films and we wanted to have a sense of authentisity by means of representing UK drama appropriately.

Our Storyboards

Below show the storyboard that we came up with for our action genre film:

Our Chosen Genre

We decided to choose an action type genre as we thought that this would allow a lot of opportunity to involve a varied number of shot types and angles.

Thinking of Opening Sequences

Before coming up with a storyboard, our group decided that it was a good idea to brainstorm features of different genres that would be possible to make a successful opening sequence, for example, we did not include sci-fi or western as  we knew that it would be almost impossible to create an effective opening sequence. Below shows what we came up with: