Changes from the story board

The film mainly stuck to the story board, but we altered the story as we saw an opportunity to use the the betting shop William Hill. We then came up with the idea that the central character had a money problem and owed large sums of money to loan sharks. This also meant we had a reason for the gangsters to appear, as they broke in to his apartment to get their money. Consequently we had the idea of the central characters girlfriend being abducted by the gangsters as we figured it would seem realistic and we also decided as a group we like films where the action happens immediately. The changes made the film opening more exciting, more realistic, easier to relate to and also added more connotations of the action genre; a damsel in distress.

Where did our film get inspiration from?

To gain inspiration on the type of opening sequence we wanted to create we had to watch a variety of films in the action/drama/crime genre. The films we considered ranged from the £600,000 Kidulthood/Adulthood; because of the fact that its a UK drama and the film's are aimed at a similar target audience, to multi million dollar blockbuster Taken, primarily for the infamous phone call scene and that one of the central characters gets kidnapped in our opening sequence. Lock stock incorporates organized crime, and that's what we wanted to include in our opening sequence. We used something from each type of film to create our ideas for our opening sequence.

Possible opening sequences

After being put in our groups, we created a mind-map of possible genres and ideas before we could design a storyboard. Below shows the genres that we thought we could use considering we were limited for locations; for example, we didn't want to create an opening sequence using science fiction as it would be hard to portrait this genre without special effects. To make it look more interesting we used  a variety of colours to represent different conventions of different genres.