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Synopsis
SYNOPSIS
Our thriller opening sequence will be revolving around the storyline of
a ninja, Zhi Kuan, who had lost his brother as an evil boss, General Xiao, had
killed him. This will be explained the viewer by a scrolling literature rising
from the top, this will also be white writing on black background to make it
stand out to the viewers. Our logo, ‘Specialist Pictures’ will also be
presented to the viewers.
Throughout our movie, we are going to continuously use the sound motif
technique therefore the different production companies will appear in sync with
the heavy drums within the soundtrack. This will happen four times and will
suddenly jump cut to footage.
The footage that will be initiated first to the viewers will show the
camera panning up the ninja’s legs, which creates suspicion and curiosity to
the viewers, as they want to find out whom the ninja actually is. The next
scene shows Daniel’s back in his ninja outfit with lighting focused on him from
the top and then the camera will view Daniel putting on his mask. This shows
the viewers that he is prepared for his mission and his training.
The next scenes show Daniel training and his first exercise is him
using nun chucks, push ups and shadow boxing. This variety of different
training exercises at different angles shows that the ninja is a professional.
After the scenes of Daniel training in his ninja costume, he is found
in a different location, which is the graveyard and wearing his suit, which
represents his alter ego. This symbolizes his love and grief of his brother in
which he goes to visit him. The camera shows Daniel walking up to the grave
with a single red rose; multiple angles are used to intrigue the viewer.
The camera then shows Daniel from his neck to feet throwing the rose in
respect on the grave, this scene will also is shows the rose in the colour in
contrast to the whole opening sequence being in black and white.
The scene is then faded to a black screen showing the actors and also
the final title, ‘The shadow’. These will be animated to express the
significance it has on the video.
Treatment
Treatment-
Gaaron, Louis and Daniel.
Our task was to make a
thriller opening sequencing consisting of a maximum of 2 minutes. The main plot
of our film will be an action thriller and therefore will be concentrating on
one main character rather than a group. We decided a few plotlines from
criminals to underground rappers but had finally decided on a ninja based
opening sequence.
Our opening sequence
will introduce a ninja who is on a mission to defeat the boss of a ninja
organisation or someone of high authority as the villain had killed his
brother. This information will be presented to the viewers by literature at the
beginning of the opening to inform the viewers what has happened and to make
them aware of what is about to happen. The sequence is going to revolve around
the main ninja training in order to defeat the boss as well as a graveyard
scene consisting of the ‘brother’s’ grave. This will represent sorrow and resentfulness, which connects
to contrast.
Our group decided on
this storyline from watching a retro Chinese film, which contained ninjas and
karate classes training. We decided to use this element in our storyline, as it
was different and unique from other action thriller movies. We also printed of
multiple questionnaires about general knowledge of films and specifically
thriller films; this gave use more knowledge about what viewers wanted and what
made them intrigued to watch more.
The main locations
that we need are a graveyard and a dark setting, preferably a dark room with
multiple dim lighting such as the lighting room within our school. We also may
need a street to show the ninja walking in the sunshine to create contrast from
the dark setting, which is going to be the main concept of the film.
We may need to also
create an effect on our footage such as tinting or low saturation to make the
footage unique and interesting. The graveyard that we are using will create a
sorrowful mood for the viewers as it is representing the loss of the ninja’s
brother and shows the love between the characters.
Our film will conform
for being classed as an action thriller opening sequence as it has intense,
adrenaline music in sync with the ninja’s training. This is creating a sound
motif as well as making the viewers more intrigued to see what happens in the
next scene. It also has a black and white effect to represent a retro time
period and also makes the footage gloomier.
To conclude, our
footage will hopefully start off with a literature rising up from the bottom
like Star Wars or Blade Runner and consisting of powerful language informing
the viewers the main storyline. This will shortly cut to the production
companies, which lead to the ninja training in sync with the music. A graveyard
scene will also be shown to represent sorrow and loss and will finally lead to
the ninja walking in the sunshine to end. This creates sunshine from the dark
settings and shows happiness.
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