Our Mood Board

We decided to create a mood board showing various things to do with the thriller genre which gave us some of our own ideas to develop into our own opening sequence.



In the top left, we researched the thriller film ‘Fight Club’. This was because we thought it would give us some knowledge as to key features of thriller films such as the plot, the shot types, and the interesting parts of the opening sequence.



The bottom left of our mood board shows the key elements of the thriller ‘Se7en’. We drew an image of a hand which is one of the main focuses in their opening sequence. Some of the elements we found were the type of cuts used throughout the opening sequence, and what type of effect it gives the audience watching.



The right hand side of the mood board shows the final letter that we have chosen to be read and shown in our opening sequence. We have shown two copies; one being a word document we created, and the other being what we wish it to look like in our opening sequence (scrunched up paper effect).



We have also included research into props and the locations we wish to use in our opening sequence. We felt that these were significant to our opening sequence as we found other thriller opening sequences to have similar props and locations. We looked into a black suit and a ‘thuggish’ look to create a persona of our character which we felt matched the characters shown in the other opening sequences we had looked at. We also decided to choose London as a main location for our opening sequence to be set in as we thought that we could use it to create good shots. Big Ben was a key place that we wanted to film as it related well to the significance of time which we want to create throughout our opening sequence.