I learned a few key things from that class period to keep in mind as my partner and I work. Number one being to keep in mind this is meant to be and play as a film opening, not as a trailer. Secondly, a simple and low-budget filming location that worked well for other groups in the past is a garage. So, my partner and I have our garages as possible filming locations now. I also learned that I should space the opening credits out for most of the opening to support that it is in fact a film opening, and not a film trailer.
Moving onward, my partner and I are going to stay in touch closely and, through the magic of technology nowadays, communicate every day. We have been texting and calling each other outside of school hours to discuss our plan and the project in general. Thus far, we've concluded we want our film opening to be of a spy, or some sort of undercover agent, getting ready for a mission since that is what is intriguing to us and what we believe we will be able to capture well because it will be fun for us, which will generate a great finished product organically.
It will be a dramatic action/adventure or crime drama as the genre. We also decided on this genre after researching the greatest movies of all time, which showed the majority of them as dramas, and most of the top dramas were crime dramas. For example, "The Godfather" is acclaimed as one of the greatest films ever made and is a crime drama.
Another drama movie ranked as one of the greatest films ever made, and a personal favorite of mine, is the "Shawshank Redemption." What I specifically liked about that movie is the character development, and the relationship formed between the characters "Red" and "Andy." Perhaps I may draw on their character traits for inspiration in creating our film opening characters.
An American spy television show that was on the network NBC called "Chuck" is another source of inspiration from which I will draw from since it is well reviewed show by fans and critics alike, but also because it is one of my favorite shows of all time. The main reason I loved the show so much was because of the characters, specifically the main character, "Chuck." He becomes an unlikely, underdog undercover agent after he got sent an email from an old college friend embedded with classified Government files in a computer program called "the intersect" that upon viewing gets downloaded into the brain. Chuck is excellent, the character and the show, so it would be good for me to use him as inspiration in creating my own spy character.