Good ideas

Group: Artur, Alejandro, Dio

   So I've been researching into the best film openings and why they made it there. Because it is the first scene of the film, it's absolutely crucial that it catches the viewers attention and gives them a glimpse of what is to come. The first scene will set the tone of the film and give an insight upon what to expect. Upon talking with my peers, I think we have come up with a good idea that we could use during our scenes.

  We think we want our film opening to be primarily on the past. We want the flashback to occur pretty early on in the film and focus the remaining time left we have on to be on the past and not on the present. We have decided on this because, if we were to continue on our film, we believe that explaining the backstory from the very start would help the storyline of the film. Also, putting the flashback at the beginning gives us more time to tell the story we want to tell in the short amount of time that we have.

 I found a great article that talks about what we want to do on our scene and it was very helpful in guiding us to decide on what we want. Lawrence of Arabia is the film talked about in this article that begins with a scene and then transitions into a flashback, even though this flashback was not our favorite as it's not going to the past but instead to the present, it was very helpful to check it out.


Opening Scene article
Lawrence of Arabia