B- Inspiration for our film opening- Form

Vantage point (Travis, 2008)- Thriller

After watching the opening credits for the film Vantage point i have become very inspired to create a similar opening for our film. My reasons for this are as followed...

• The montage of shots works well as an effective way to create a sense of a flash back or a dream. This is what we hope to achieve in our film opening as the main part will be a flash back therefore starting the film at disequilibrium.

• The montage is created through the use of floating shapes which also spells out the title of the film, i also think that this is really effective and something in which we could consider as part of our opening.

• After looking closely at the way this is done i can see that they have used layers when editing to be able to fade the pictures and writing as one, this could be achievable within our film opening.

• The colour was used in this opening is orange although this would not follow the narrative and feel of our opening we could use the same technique just using a grey or purple colour wash to connote darkness.

• The text used in the opening of this is shown with what looks like a laser from a gun shining over the top in order to connote the idea of a crime/ a gun which follows the conventions of thriller, although i do not feel that this would work in our film opening as there are no guns involved.

• Overall i feel that this is a really inspirational and effective clip and i would defiantly like to incorporate something like this into our film opening.