3.4 - Shot list of your opening sequence

1) Establishing shot of the house/work place whatever we plan later when we come to the planning & story boarding process.

2) The young women speaking to another actor – Medium close up/ shot reverse shot during the conversation between the two.

3) Close up on the womans face – stating the fear as she slowly remembers the past

4)Gets flash backs/ reinforced by a voice over - LS shot on back off the woman moving away (Possible foreground for point of view shot- 1ST Shot can be the feet of the woman running away then the second shot can be showing the young womans face/fear as shes running away from the psycho killer

5)Medium close up of the runner (The Woman)– crouched in front of hiding place

6)Close up on chasing feet (clearly defined)

7)Over the shoulder of the woman looking back

8)Point of view shot from the runner looking back at the danger behind her which in this case it's the psycho killer

9) Close up on the woman's feet running

10) Close up shot on the chasers feet (Clearly defined)

11) Close up on the runners face – e.g. stating the fear of the woman (need an good actor for it)

12) Medium close up on runner getting up – stumbling but no trace in the shot

(We have agreed to use a mixture from both mine and from Lucian's shot lists)

3.3 - 3.3.1- Synopsis of our complete film (Thriller)

In our groups of 3, our task was to discuss the opening sequence of our film. As a group we have agreed that our opening sequence will be under the genre Thriller. The plot of our thriller film is going to be about a young woman, in her early 20's sitting down with another character - which is the police.

The woman (Maddy) is terrified and is explaining what has happened to her. Whilst Maddy - the main characters name- Starts to explain to the police in the interview room, the night of the incident and what exactly had happened. During the conversation between Maddy and the police man - A high paced use of flashbacks will be used to re-enforce what Maddy - the character is saying, and creating a fear among the audiences. The flashbacks itself, will be re-enforced with use of sharp sound effects.

The flashbacks will contain a view of Maddy continuously being chased by someone, which the audiences cannot see the face of the psycho chaser- till the end of the sequence, which the camera only gets the rare glimpse at. However by this stage Maddy slowly starts to remember who the psycho chaser was, while she explains the night of the incident, as it turns out to be the police man. The sequence hopefully will generate fear or at least a wonder within the audience - in terms of what will happen next if the sequence was turned into a film. The main character - Maddy's social status is a young working class woman.

3.2- 3.2.4 - Analysis of the opening sequence of "Flight Plan"

In the opening sequence of Flight Plan, the sequence starts with a mysterious soundtrack at the beginning then the noises turn into a sound of an aeroplane. Then accompanies the noise with the title “Flight Plan” This tells the audiences that someone is in trouble or something terrible is about to happen, then followed by a long shot then into an close up shot of Jodie Foster sitting down waiting for the yellowish train to arrive. The yellowish train symbolises a link to the airport because we then see shots of the airport as well as hearing the aeroplanes noises. The technical construction of the film “Flight Plan” the mysterious soundtracks were probably added to the shots after they had shot that particular scenes.

The director focuses on using natural lighting. He used only one light source form the direct view point of where Jodie Foster was sitting, cinematographer as also he used a blue gel to create the natural lighting effect. However as we continue to watch the opening sequence the lighting scenes are all dark – where no lighting effects have been used. The Foley sounds are continued to be used to help to build up the tension of the film.

The film begins with Jodie Foster having an flash back of her 6 year old daughter and their funeral, and then the story leads on to her imaging that her daughter is going abroad with her on the same aeroplane. When actually nobody believes that their was a child travelling abroad with her. This tells the audience that the story line of the story is fragmented and that it also starts of with drawing the audiences into the plot and wanting them to carry on watching the film.

Production:

The budget for this film was around $50,000,000

Production Company : Touchstone Pictures

Copyright Holder: Sony DADC's new ARccOS Copy Protection

Director: Robert Schwentke

Writers: Peter A. Dowling & Billy Ray

Starring: Jodie Foster - (The Silence of the Lambs)
Peter Sarsgaard -(The Man in Iron Mask & Another Day in Paradise)
Sean Bean - (The Lord of the Rings)
Erika Christensen -(Traffic)

Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany - International Airport of Leipzig Halle), Hollywood - Los Angeles, California USA

Marketing:

Distributed under a variety of certificates in some examples below:

UK (12A) Australia, Ireland (12A) Finland, Indonesia, Hongkong, Netherlands (12) Canada, South Korea, New Zealand, Germany (12) Switzerland, Brazil, Sweden, Czech Republic, Portugal, Iceland, USA

Release Date: 25th November 2005 in UK
Run time: 98 Minutes
Language: English , French, German, Arabic, Italian, Japanese

Website: http://flightplan.movies.go.com/index_main.html

A Summary of how these details impact on target audience:

The film was certificate 12, so therefore if you are under age you cannot watch the film. However people who like high budgeted films may be like to watch this film.People who like the actors in the film, that the actors previously has taken role in for example : Sean Bean - if you liked Lord of the Rings, then this film will be for you. The more distribution team, send the film out to other counties the more audiences, there are to watch the film.

Who is the target audience for Flight Plan?

The target audience for Flight Plan may be people who like to watch films like action/thriller. People who are interested in and likes to watch films that are produced in USA (Hollywood movies)

Discuss 3 ways the opening sequence address the target audience

1. Anyone who’s interested in Action/Thriller Films- which kind of appeals to young male audiences e.g now a days films target young male audiences, even though young women go to the cinema to

2. Anyone who likes to watch challenging/mysterious films
3. Anyone who likes to watch a film that involves an certain character having flash backs of her past etc

3.2.4. Audience (V for Vendetta)

3.2.4.1- Who is the target audience for V for Vendetta?

The target audience for V for Vendetta may be for people who like to watch films related to history e.g. The Gunpowder Plot etc. People who like to watch action/thriller type of films. Male teenagers etc.

3.2.4.2- Discuss 3 ways the opening sequence address the target audience

1. The V in flames in a circle fades in red words: V for Vendetta and the flames in a circle symbolises the Gunpowder Plot, so anyone who is interested in British history.
2. Anyone who's interested in Thriller Films/ War type theme, which kind of appeals to young male audiences
   
3. Heroic as well as Violence - Reason for someone to save people. - Justified coming to see this. Developing character - Verbose language - Where you get an impression that he is a really funny comedian person & intelligent etc.

Improvements made after reading the comment for points 1 & 3

1. The opening sequence addresses the male teenagers because it begins with the V in the flames in a circle which, represents adventure/action/thriller- which male audiences tend to like to watch
2. The opening sequence also uses weapons within the sequence of this film e.g. the swords that Vendetta uses - Which appeals to young male audiences.