How to open the film

How to open the film?

I have recently been talking over the opening of my film and how to maintain this sense of realism that there needs to be to make the film more effective. My teacher then suggested that I should open the film by using a hostage video. As if in the film Robert Conrad would be kidnapped and then his captures would be taunting Conrad by making him film himself and give this report. This links to my research because in many crime films there has to be this connection built between the protagonist and the audience when the audience see the protagonist in a difficult situation and they then feel that they want the protagonist to succeed. It also helps show links with research because it is a time when there is obviously a crime committed against Conrad. Once the audience has seen that Conrad is in a difficult position there would be a scene transition to show where Conrad was before. It is kind of in the style of Rendition when the film opens with the end first and the rest of the film is set in trying to explore how the story ended that way. And there is this question of time and how it passes and what happened because in the film Rendition there are multiple story lines that are occurring so it is important to have some kind of time recognition. In the film Rendition the way that they show how the stories combine is that they repeat the scene and then the two scenes happen at the same time but I will probably not be able to do that but it is something worth thinking about.

How to make the film:

Start with the webcam and Conrad talking into as if he is terrified and then pause or cut the scene to the titles a caption which says Road to Damascus and then go straight into the footage of Conrad preparing himself for the task ahead.

Could use the Blair Witch Project style of filming have a kind of found footage section and add a voice over onto the footage.

But could still have a time lapse that would show Conrad going to bed and then see the sun rising on the next day the day that he is going to go away on.  http://www.ehow.com/how_2317274_make-timelapse-video-digital-video.html

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/how-to-make-time-lapse-video-ultimate-guide/

Note to Self:

Person of interest American TV show which shows surveillance footage and interesting idea potentially for my film. Could also have the man walking away into the “sunset” with the dog.