Group Discussion

After a Group discussion, my group and i brainstormed some ideas which helped us plan our final opening sequence, in the discussion we considered the following elements; stock characters, stock location, mise-en-scene, the plot and camera shots, angles and movement. Although we are still waiting to deside our title as we were unsure of what to name it, we thought it would be best to wait until we gathered our results from the audience research or filming so that the title would be catching and be relevant to the opening sequence.
our ideas were the following;

• Stock characters-our man villan would be a male character, and our victim would be a female, both of these would reinforce ideology. Then there would be 1 or 2 extras to help the audience understand the narrative.
• Stock location-there will be a few locations shown in the opening sequence. We desided on the following locations, Forest shot around early evening to give it a natural blue wash and also a park will be used as we are going to have some home footage in our opening sequence.
• Narrative-our two main characters the villan and victim at first were married and lived happily together until our main male character finds out his wife has had an affair and doesnt love him anymore so ends it, the villan then starts to become obsessed with his ex-wife and stalks her and then trys to kill her because if he cant have her then he doesnt want anyone else to have her either.
• Mise-en-scene-we discussed all the elements which occur in this catergory and came up with some good ideas. for example the villan will be wearing dark clothing as this connotes evil and bad things, whereas the victim will be in light clothing this is so the audience can resemble her as being pure. The lighting will be quite errie to create the atmosphere for the viewer.

We found our discussion extremely helpful for planning our narrative, we can now plan other elements around this, and work towards our final opening sequence.