Research

For our research we looked at films with a similar genre, it is important to do this as they will have the same conventions in them. The films we looked at are, "I still know what you did last summer" and "Halloween". Both of these films have chases in them and this is the main part of our opening sequence. Also for our research we looked back at work that we had done earlier in the year in class, this work included generic conventions of our genre (horror/thriller) and how you achieve certain shots and hint at things that may happen. A key convention of an opening sequence is that the names of the actors and titles appear on the screen as the scene goes on, it is crucial to keep this in mind when creating our opening sequence, the writing for these names never appear too big as it would swamp the screen, other than the occasional exception of top Hollywood actors. An example of this would be Arnold Schwarzenegger's name in the film "Terminator 2"
Below is the link to the opening sequence for Terminator 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIwWPO7f8ys

In our selected genre there are normally mysterious enigmas created, therefore we did not want to give too much away about our main antagonist either, in keeping with this convention.
Below is the link to the opening sequence of A Nightmare On Elm Street, this demonstates the mysterious enigma that we aim to portray in our main task
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEoq4OuT3lo