research on film beginnings

19/03/10

We have minimal budget so we can not make a hollywood standard opening, but several films have influenced our decisions and also our style for our film opening. Such films would include Hancock, the Matrix, and also some previous AS media films. To influence our film on the basis that we have no budget to spend on the film, some AS media students including our group watched a film called "shifty" which also had a very small budget. So this film also had to use technical ability in the camera work and editing to influence the audience rather than pure action which the Matrix and Hancock have. We also watched such films as love actually which had a respectable budget, but they still spent minimal on their opening scenes, and were still effective. this also influenced us because now we were convinced that you can still make a good opening scene despite having little funding.