Today is officially day 1 of starting my portfolio project. So to whoever is interested enough to read this (Hello there, Mr. or Ms. Cambridge), I hope you enjoy the process of creating my very first film opening.
I started by looking up videos of the best film openings; however, I found myself in kind of a slump since all of these either had crazy expensive scenes to make OR were too long for me to take inspiration from and incorporate into 2 minutes. However, some scenes that caught my eye were the opening to Scream (1996) and Jaws (1975). I particularly found Scream's opening scene very interesting, as it is very intense and makes you sit at the edge of your seat without even showing the killer once.
For now, I'm not sure who I want to work with, as my friends are fun to be with, but I don't know if our views will align to make the best possible project, so for now I will be working alone. I also want to recruit some people to be actors for my project.
As far as the title sequence, I think it will most likely overlap the opening, showing the director, writer, major actors, cinematographer, editor, and others. I would like to not spend any of the 2 minutes in a dedicated title sequence, as I think it just wastes time and seems like a cheap way to kind of cheat the project.
I have asked one of my close friends, Federico, for his help, as he has a nice camera that we can use to film the opening (I don't know what brand it is; I didn't ask him). He also has a GoPro that we might be able to use. I honestly have little to no experience filming, and I'm pretty sure that camera is like a baby to him, so I think he will be the one filming.
Honestly, my creative juices are really flowing, and I'm really excited to see where this journey brings me and to see if this is what I want to do in the future. But to be frank, I am really nervous since this is also worth 50% of my final grade, and I reallyyy want to do well on this.
Oh yeah, and here are my notes that I have taken on film openings and blogging for the past couple classes.
For the opening, I would like to establish characters. I really want their clothes to show who they are as people. For now, I don't have any real ideas, but I am really interested in doing maybe 90's style. I think after I have created the characters for the story, I will go to a thrift store and buy some clothes I think will fit the characters well.
I also would like to develop the setting. I am thinking of using natural lighting, along with some flashlights that are used by the characters, a night ambiance, relying on detail, costume design, and many angles and inserts.
This is it for now. I am so excited for this new chapter of my life. Thank you for reading this. Tomorrow I will be writing about what genres I have thought about (horror is definitely one of them) and some basic research on each of them.
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