An Opening Idea: Broken
Maybe I’ve been watching too many action films, but here’s an opening sequence idea.
It starts as a shot in an old house. It’s dark, quite and damp from the rainfall. The shot pans down from the ceiling behind the protagonist, to show a young girl on the floor frightened. The girl is begging for her life (the camera slowly pans down to eye level at this point), and the protagonist says nothing. Whilst the girl is beginning, the shot pans down to met her eye-level, to allow the audience to feel like they are stood behind the protagonist, almost helpless. The girl continues to beg, and as she does, thunder and rain sounds continue in the background, the shot fades and focuses on what’s in the protagonist’s hand – a gun.
The angle of shot changes as the gun is raised:
- First the gun being raised is shown from the side (slowly to add tension)
- Second, the shot shows the bottom of the protagonists face (not revealing their identity just yet) with the gun pointing towards the camera.
- We see a tear roll down the protagonist’s face as they say ‘I’m sorry’
- The shot changes to the girl as she curls up and screams.
- The gun takes up the full shot while shooting the bullet.
- We then have a long shot, which shows the gun thrown to the floor and protagonist leaves the shot: allowing the opening title ‘Broken’ to be shown.
Rather dark film thinking? Time to watch some comedy...
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