Inspiration

When our group was deciding what to include in our opening scenes, these clips really helped us plan out how we were going to film and what shots we were going to include.

This opening scene scene is very good at showing how a camera focusses on a character is far in the background behind other characters. Secondly I like it how it chop and changes between each other which leads to a final climax which is similar to our film idea. The lead up of the music and the closer the characters get which leads to the final moment creates an anti climax because no one expected that to happen. We want to incorporate this idea/narrative into our film because this would fit into our pathetic fallacy of our main character who is living his daily life and gets caught up into the unexpected.

Secondly, we like the high angle shot at the end which gives the whole overview of the situation, we would like to include a scene like this because we feel it would be good at emphasising that he has no idea what is going on. In addition, this high angle shot could be a good scene to end our opening scene on because it could be a zooming out transition where we would end our opening scene.

Just Jack - "The day I died" from Sterntag Film on Vimeo.

The reason why I included this music video is because it runs along the same concept as our film idea. Our initial response to this music video is we like the idea of the middle aged man living his daily life. This runs in parallel to our idea because our film name is called 'middleman' so we thought if we used a middle aged actor such as a parent it would help portray the enigma more clearly.

Secondly, our group liked how this character is living his daily life as usual, oblivious to what was going to mess up his day. We gained some inspiration from this video because we plan to film our title sequences around air main character living his daily life and travelling to a location. The location will not be clear and the viewers will not be told where he is travelling too, this should produce some enigma because people would be wondering where the character is going.

In this opening scene, we liked the way how the character has headphones in, listening to music. This music is placed into the background of the overall opening scene. We thought we could incorporate this into our opening scene in the same concept. However, our character will not be popping off the dance movies just like Chris pratt demonstrated. Our character may have the odd bob of the head but that is it.