This whole week is all about researching and planning. So far, planning hasn’t gone very far so my group and I are hoping research will help us think of ideas or at least find out which types of stories are typically successful. I watched about 50 film openings over the course of this weekend hoping that at least one would inspire me.
I looked up “great film openings” which brought me to a bunch of different lists of people ranking their favorite film openings. (I’m linking my favorites here and here so you can check out them, too!)
One film that continuously appeared on the lists was the opening of The Social Network, an opening that my teacher also showed us in class. I’m not going to lie, I was initially drawn to this film opening because it didn’t seem that difficult to produce. I mean, you really just need to get a busy area and two actors to talk. The shots and editing didn’t seem too complicated and it focused heavily on the dialogue. However, after watching a lot (and I do mean a lot) of other film openings, I realized that the beginning of The Social Network required a great deal of effort. For one, it required a lot of thought to be put into developing the entire plot of the movie and needed a great deal of creativity to come up with the quick dialogue. I also realized that doing something like this interested me not because it seemed easy to produce but because, as I found out from previous projects, I like focusing on the creativity of developing the story and developing in depth characters.
Overall, watching these film openings allowed me to come to the conclusion that I would like my film opening to focus on one or two characters and begin to delve into who they are. I think that is one of my strong suits (developing a character) and something I can bring to my group.
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