After doing some research on different title sequence, my group and i decided that the best way for us to go, with our kind of thriller was a 'discreet title sequence' as used in Se7en. Since we have a lot of action going on through out our shots, we would like that to be the main focus.

Location

To begin with out main idea for location was to use the room beneath the school where there is a boiler and a spiral staircase on your way down, we wanted to use this for our interrogation space. But after seeing this room we realized that it was way to small and if we needed to have 4 actors there plus the crew with the camera, there wouldn't be enough room. Instead we went with our idea which was to film in Adam's garage which is quite funny shaped but will work great for our interrogation scene.

Character List

We would like the one male person that is being interrogated in the scene to look pretty English, and have a slight James Bond feel to them. Preferred outside actor in his 30's.

We would like two or three outside male actors to be interrogaters. Prefereble in their 30's and look Arabic and if this is not possible, we would like to use Russians.



Props List

We have chosen these costumes and props to create the atmosphere of the scene we are trying to portray, and to make it more original, so you get a sense of where you are, who the people are and what the situation is.

Costumes
- White shirt
- Suit pants
- 2-3 times military outfits
- 2-3 pairs of military boots
- 1 pair of nice shoes

Other Props
- Big steel table
- 1 wooden battered chair
- Knives
- Guns
- 1 squared aquarium
- Rope
- 1 Bucket (for water boarding)

Storyboarding the Sequence

Storyboarding

In our first lesson of storyboarding we drafted both ideas of A and B on just blank paper to get an idea of the story and what kind of shots would be interesting to create meaning for the story. George worked on Interrogation since that what his main idea so he knew more what he had in his head while thinking of the idea. I storyboarded the Roommate idea because that I had certain shots in my head for it. In the beginning of the year we had gotten some tips on how to storyboard while watching some youtube clips which helped.

In our second storyboard lesson, we went into depth, timing and angles. We got special pieces of paper, with empty squares for the drawing and on the right side there was a box where you had to fill out what nr shot it was, which angle it was and how long we though the shot would take. It was quite difficult having to write down everything you want to do before you are in the actual situation where you might want to change something, but as I have done a similar task to this one, storyboarding is so important, it makes you remember a lot of detail and makes you keep focus. We did some stick-figure drawings that weren’t exact but you get the point, and we tried to be certain about the timing but it will probably change over time.

Our Storyboard

Deciding on a Idea

We were put into groups, I with Oscar and George. Following we presented our own ideas to each other so that we could discuss, which one was the most interesting one that we would use. After discussing for a while, we all agreed that George’s idea on the Interrogation scene was the one we wanted to go through with. We were also told to have a back-up plan in case that our first idea wasn’t possible in some way. We used my idea of the Roommate as the back-up plan. Our teachers were very pleased with our idea and told us that what we wanted to do was possible.

  

IDEAS for our own production of title sequences

We started the lesson out by being split into groups. Following we were given the assignment to come up with 4 ideas that could possible end up being the final idea for our title sequence. I found it quite hard to come up with for ideas because every time you think of something it is either a cliché or something you have stolen from somewhere else. It is very hard to be original.

My first idea the movie would be named ‘The Roommate’. The storyline would be about a girl getting a new roommate, but she starts realizing after some time that this girl is quite strange and as the film progresses we find out that this girl is completely obsessed with the girl that she moved in with and that she knew who she was before she moved in with her. The title sequence would be a series of close ups (inspired by se7en) so it is completely anonymous to begin with. In that series of shots we can see that this person is preparing for something and that she has been stalking this person that person, and she is planning to do something. We would see a couple of shots of her creating a book with all these different facts in and towards the end of the sequence we see her packing a suitcase and in the end she troughs in the book and the bag is closed so we kind of have the idea that she is the roommate that is moving in so it is like the bomb under the table that we know is going to happen.

Otto’s first idea in the title sequence would be filming some teenagers standing outside a tunnel, drinking and smoking, where it leads to the start challenging and daring each other. The one person then dares the other to go into the dark tunnel where as we enter the tunnel we follow the person that goes in. Following there comes a flash from something and he sees the face of someone right in front of him and then it goes dark again so both the audience and character has no idea where this person is our how far they are from them.

George’s first idea It is about a man getting dragged into a military base where after he gets questioned during him being drowned in water and water boarded as torture. The he gets interrogated while sitting on a chair while these men question him about some thing that he can’t answer or will not answer following he would either just be left in the place they are doing this to him or they would finish him off.