Reservoir Dogs Intro - Little Green Bag

Reservoir Dogs

Opening Credits:

• A Film by Quentin Tarantino
• Harvey Keitel
• Michael Madsen
• Chris Penn
• Steve Buscemi
• Lawrence Tierney
• Eddie Bunker
• Quentin Tarantino
• and Tim Roth
• Reservoir Dogs
• Randy Brooks
• Kirk Baltz
• Rich Turner
• and the voice of Steven Wright
• Casting Ronnie Yeskel, C.S.A.
• Music Supervisor Karyn Rachtman
• Costume Designer Besty Heimann
• Editor Sally Menke
• Production Designer David Wasco

At the very beginning of the opening credits, they use an establishing shot to set the scene of the film. What you see is a diner, and in it a table full of men in suits, one gradually standing up and walking away from the table. After this, the remainding people at the table stand up and follow him out of the diner, the scene then fades to black.

The next thing you see after the black screen, is a long shot of what looks like a parking lot, with a pick up truck in the background, as you slowly start to see the men come into shot from the right side of the screen, all walking together in a big group.

The camera then makes a fast paced cut onto what seems to be the leader of the group, with a close up of his face, it then adds the credits of the actor, and begins to jump between all of the group one by one, informing the audience of the actor in the film. The whole clip is in slow motion as the men walk towards two cars parked on the pavement across from the diner.

Eventually the scene draws to a close, with the shot fading to black, and the rest of the opening credits coming up.

The Purge Opening Scene

THE PURGE

                       

Opening credits:

• Universal Pictures presents
• A Platinum Dunes/Blumhouse/Why Not production
• Ethan Hawke
• Lena Headey
• Adelaide Kane
• Max Burkholder
• Edwin Hodge
• Tony Oller, Rhys Wakefield
• Arija Bareikis, Chris Mulkey
• Casting by Lisa Fields
• Costume design by Lisa Norcia
• Music by Nathan Whitehead
• Edited by Peter Gvozdas
• Production design by Melanie Paizis-Jones
• Director of photography Jacques Jouffret
• Co-producer Jeanette Volturno-Brill
• Produced by Jason Blum, p.g.a.
• Produced by Sebastien K. Lemercier, p.g.a.
• Produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller
• Written and directed by James Demonaco

During the opening credits, what the viewers see is a series of clips, in the style of CCTV. This is to show the audience that all the crime has been captured by CCTV, and are now being broadcasted to us, the audience. 

The CCTV shows that nobody steps in to help people out, and that the cameras just watch, without alerting authority such as Police. It shows that on the night of the purge, nobody is safe and nobody can help you. 

I think that the opening credits, are a very good way of showing the audience a bit of background into the film, by letting us see previous clips of murders, robberies etc. It really helps the audience gain an understanding of what the film is about and what is going on.

Planning of the Thriller Draft

PLANNING

My group all met up with each other and started to discuss and brainstorm ideas about the scenes, first we were thinking of incorporating ideas of a robbery into the clip. Although we had those ideas, my group changed their minds, and decided to go with a more football themed thriller. Which to my disappointment got picked, I personally thought that football had no connection to thrillers in the slightest and that we would be better off creating a bank robbery scene as that contains suspense.

After the final theme was decided, the actors met up at Harry Edwards' house and talked about how the scenes would be shot. We spoke about where the tripod would be set up and how the camera would pan through the walls and capture the moment as if it were raw footage.

We had planned to include a scene with both 'Leaders' of the groups and show them going about their daily life, then switching between the two as they got ready for the upcoming game.

Props:
We didn't incorporate many props into the scene, although we could have done with a lot more because it would have made the scene look more authentic and believable.

Summary of Se7en.

Seven - Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman

The film 'Se7en' is set in New York and is a crime thriller, that follows the life of two detectives; Detective Mills, played by Brad Pitt and Detective Somerset played by Morgan Freeman. The two detectives are trying to solve a series of murders that eventually unfolds into the intricate plan to complete a mass murder of 7 people following the 7 deadly sins, the sins are;

• Gluttony
• Greed
• Sloth
• Lust
• Pride
• Envy
• Wrath

That is the order that the serial killer completes his murders, with himself being the death of the last sin, Wrath. John Doe, the killer played by Kevin Spacey had planned to do this for a simple reason, to prove that the world is full of evil. Envy was John Doe himself as he was jealous of Detective Mills and the life he had, to complete this he killed Mills' wife and causing Mills to complete the final sin, Wrath.