From our individual analyses of opening sequences, the four of us concluded that there were some conventions that the vast majority of opening sequences used, and that we should therefore use these as rules/guidelines when creating our own sequence. These were:
1) Montage. Montages were commonly used in sequences we analyses, and this was a good technique that created a lot of suspense and drama. In our storyboard, we planned to use this as the main antagonist is walking up the stairs, by incorporating flashbacks of different girls. As none of this has dialogue, instead of using the audio from the video we thought we could make this into a montage, with emotive music as a backing track instead.
2) Dialogue is allowed, but only a little. Most of the sequences we looked at had little to no dialogue, but a few did. Our sequence fits with this as there is a short exchange between the girl and the man, but it does not last long and does not dominate the sequence.
3) Introduce the character. Our sequence introduces two characters, but you can tell the man is the main character as we equate the girl with several other girls through use of flashbacks.
4) Introduce the narrative. Our sequence does this, showing the film to be about a rapist/paedophile and his crimes.
5) Have credits! Although we did not storyboard this, we have decided to use the idea of fridge magnet pieces and stop motion to spell out the names of the people involved in the production of the film.
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