Developing our Thriller Opening Sequence


  • As we now have the concept for the thriller opening sequence, we began thinking about shot types and laying out a storyboard.

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We decided that we think it would be effective to use a drone for a panning establishing shot; and then zoom quickly throughout the maze into an ECU of the protagonist's face. However, this may be difficult particularly as we do not have an official drone - fortunately I have a mini remote-control helicopter that we may be able to use. 
This idea I took from this clip regularly used in Doctor Who
We have started to replicate the main shots that we will have. We created a test shoot to show a vague idea of how we are going to film the sequence. We used shots and audio that we have previously discussed such as the ELS of the protagonist walking throughout the maze. We are going to shoot our thriller in the dark and and use props such as a full length mirror , a lantern and a fog machineWe have also started looking at locations that we can shoot for the maze - we considered Hever Castle or Hampton Court Palace as they have tall hedge mazes which is what we pictured.
We also looked at using different sounds for our thriller. We looked at different compositions such as:





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