Location for our Opening Sequence in our main task

Yesterday, myself and my group collaborated together to make a decision on our film title (previous blog post). Once we had come to the conclusion on our title for our opening sequence we believed it was important to start to think of possible outcomes for our setting/location of our opening sequence- listed below. 

Warehouse

We are going to use the settings around the warehouse as we believe as a group it is a good and effective location for our genre. This is because it is a stereotypical mystery setting which links to the genre action, therefore this will help to attract our target audience. In order to use it effectively we could for example have to a character around the building looking suspicious, or a unusual text message of the unknown to build up the tension which is needed in our action genre opening sequence.  

Bridge 

My group and I feel it would be effective to use a bridge in our opening sequence this is because a bridge is stereo typically were characters in action film go to hide to make a phone call for example. In addition a bridge could led t making the audience feel unsettled as  usually there is lots going on around a bridge for example to bridges on the motorway. However the bridge we are using is in a very quiet surrounding which may lead the audience to fell on edge as they may not know what to think nor what to expect. Therefore we believe using a bridge is effective for many reasons including to cause tension as it’s a familiar setting but with unfamiliar surroundings.

Canal

We have also decided to use a canal which is located in Timperley this is because we think it would be a good idea t have a chase along the canal as it will cause tension for audience as they will be lead on to believe that one of the character’s will get caught as it may lead to a dead end at the end of the path way. Or even more dramatic that one of the characters may fall into the canal. Also canals are known to be dangerous which could foreshadow that our film will be dangerous and intense in the aim that it will intrigue our audience to want to watch more.

Forest 

By using a space such as the above implies it’s a big area which could be a good place to hide for example. There is also a narrow stream which could be used to be effective as we could have characters jumping across to cause tension. However, it is unknown where it is possible to do so.

Railway

 It is believed that the railway in the picture above will be effective for our opening sequence because it implies to be a mystery and dangerous place to film. As stereo typically in action films they use dangerous surroundings and location to build up tension to their audience, also this setting implies mystery and it looks run down and graffiti which could suggest that it isn’t a nice setting and bad things are to come.