Ideas

We started to brainstorm ideas, coming up with a theme and then elborating on it. Originally we thought of creating a zombie movie which focused on thoughts and feeelings of a lone protangonist. However we did not think this style of film would be easy enough to film and also contain all the information we needed in a 2 minute section. We started to watch some openings to get a better idea of what we were trying to achieve and also understand the limitations of an opening a bit more. We had to keep in mind the type of equiptment we would be using will be basic and so this limited the type of shot we could produce, the type of costumes we could use which all would affect the whole stlye and structure of a film opening. 

We studied films such as:
- Enemy at the gates
- Che
- Saving private ryan
- Black hawk down   


We eventually came to the descison that we would create an opening for war film based around the Red Army. We thought this would be a good idea, due to the simplistic nature in which we could film the shots and also potray feelings and emotions even with lack of dialogue. The inspiration came from the fact that all of members in the group are also history students and all very interested in Russian history. However we still had to decide what period of russian history and what events to base the film on. We started to plan how we were going to shoot our opening, and also get an idea of what the opening should be about. We brainstormed many ideas, all to do with Russia however we began to relise the real limitations we faced while thinking of an idea. We decided to keep it as simple as possible because of the obvious limitations like setting, cast and props.

Shot ideas
- We liked the over the shoulder shot at the begining of this clip from luther, i would hope to replicate a similar over the shoulder shot in my film.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=senfpLIvboE
- We decided we wanted to have a suit up scene, in which the main protagonist is getting ready in his tent, to go out. We studied many different suit up scenes from films such as Hot Fuzz to Commando.

- We want an establishing shot from a hill overlooking a forest.

 - We want to include some Point of veiw shots for the dialog.

 - We want to try an include a siluette of the comisar.