Ideas For Our Movie Opening

Movie Opening Idea's

In our movie opening we are having a child growing into an adult over the years. But we will show him growing up whilst training to become a soldier. Because our opening scene is going to be featuring a lot of training, I've looked up some film scenes that I think have pulled off training scenes well. The first one I thought was a good example was "Never Back Down"

Even though this film is about training to become a UFC fighter, most of the training would be used if training to be a soldier .The reason I like this first of all is the sound. The music in the background is very motivating and gets the audience pumped, this is good use of music because when people train they like to listen to music that motivates them and gets them through the session. They have also used "Foley" well with the sound of the punching bag being punched and the brick hitting the floor. This sells the scene even more to the audience. Secondly, I like the shots used in this scene. Most the shots have the action he is doing and his face in it. This gives the audience the effect that he is training hard because he is squinting, taking deep breathes and sweating. All these small things sell the scene even more, so I think we should try integrate that  into our film.


South Paw
This is my favourite training scene because you can really see the determination in his eyes and the editing is amazing. First off, exactly like "never back down" they have included all the small stuff e.g. Sweating, heavy breathing and intense facial expressions. But what I like about this one is that the music is quite dark, but motivating at the same time. But because the music is quite dark they have filmed in a dirty, run down, dark boxing club. This shows that thee character has an evil side to him. Secondly in the editing they have lowered the lighting to make the room darker, this links in with my last point. The editors have also made it a bit of a montage. A montage is short sharp clips that have been added together. This gives the audience a sense of action and that he has been training for hours upon hours. This is what we need to include in our film because we need to show him training over a number of years. This will then give our audience a sense of time.
Never Back Down 2
This scene is a little irrelevant because the whole scene is concentrating on UFC, but I still think the shots used are a good example of what we could use for our film. The shots are short, sharp and constantly changing. Also the music goes well with this scene because the music is very modern and American, so it suits the scene well. I've noticed that a good way to show that time has passed is by changing their clothes and changing from night to day . This makes it seem like days/weeks have passed of training.