During the class we have watched the opening of The English Patient (dir. Anthony Minghella, 1996). The movie opens with a close up shot of a hand painting a human's figure as if on a cave wall. Then it cross dissolves to an areal shot of sand dunes with a similar colour tone. This also inspires our group as we can open our first scene with a close up shot which creates enigma. To add on to that we can open our scene of a person writing something - maybe a marriage certificate, death certificate or even a psychiatrist's report.This will build up suspense as the audience will not know what this is all about and will want to watch more and find out.Tuesday, 15 October 2013
RESEARCH: Similar films - The English Patient and Made in Dagenham
Production Log 3 (15th Oct.2013)
During the class we have watched the opening of The English Patient (dir. Anthony Minghella, 1996). The movie opens with a close up shot of a hand painting a human's figure as if on a cave wall. Then it cross dissolves to an areal shot of sand dunes with a similar colour tone. This also inspires our group as we can open our first scene with a close up shot which creates enigma. To add on to that we can open our scene of a person writing something - maybe a marriage certificate, death certificate or even a psychiatrist's report.This will build up suspense as the audience will not know what this is all about and will want to watch more and find out.
We have also watched the opening of Made in Dagenham (dir. Nigel Cole, 2010). The scene opens with a wide shot of a crowd of factory workers going to their work place as their work day starts. This inspires us as we could find realistic establishing shots for atmosphere. We could shoot in places such as the railway station or shopping centres to make the opening more realistic.
During the class we have watched the opening of The English Patient (dir. Anthony Minghella, 1996). The movie opens with a close up shot of a hand painting a human's figure as if on a cave wall. Then it cross dissolves to an areal shot of sand dunes with a similar colour tone. This also inspires our group as we can open our first scene with a close up shot which creates enigma. To add on to that we can open our scene of a person writing something - maybe a marriage certificate, death certificate or even a psychiatrist's report.This will build up suspense as the audience will not know what this is all about and will want to watch more and find out.
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Good to see that you've done independent research.
ReplyDeleteA start on your account of the treatment, too. Why haven't you written up more such as the real news sources as inspiration, the reasons why it would be exciting, tense and relevant as a story?
Also, where is the work on The English Patient and Made in Dagenham?
You have made up the work as requested.
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