Production

After planning and making decisions on what we needed to film, we began production on our opening sequence.

SCENE 1

Our first filming scene was the ending of the film but we decided to use it as the beginning to drag audience straight in. It showed Mickey (Chris) sat on the floor wearing a suit and looking exhausted and wounded, it also showed a hand holding a gun pointing straight at him. This creates an intriguing opening shot and makes the audience want to know who is holding the gun. The scene includes many different camera shots looking at the gun and Mickey, it then shows Mickey close up. There is then a voice over by Mickey saying 'They say your whole life flashes before your eyes(pause) well thats bollocks' then it cuts straight to a close up of the gun. The holder of the gun then pulls the trigger, there is then a gunshot sound and then the title of the film- 'Vengeance' flashes onto the screen. We feel this is a very intriguing start to the opening sequence. It puts the audience on the edge of their seats.

SCENE 2

The next scene was an interview between Mickey and DCI Bull (Tom). We wrote a script for this scene as quite a long conversation takes place. The interview consisted of DCI Bull aggressively interrogating Mickey and then making him a proposition. This was that Mickey would get in contact with wanted criminal Tony Gonzalez and offer his and Bull's services in an upcoming Job. Bull also explained that he would go undercover to bring Tony down. We filmed from two different set angles- one over Mickey's shoulder looking at Bull and the other looking over Bull's shoulder at Mickey. These angles were used so that when the film was edited, we had a varied amount of shots that we could use in this scene. Also, this exchange of shots is particularly effective when a conversation is taking place. We also decided that it would be useful if Andy also filmed the scene hand-held, enabling him to get close-ups of each character in important parts of the conversation, adding another aspect to the scene.

SCENE 3

The next scene was filming Tony(Andy) while he waited for Mickey and Bull to arrive for the job. There would be no dialogue in this scene, as we would use a voice-over with Tony explaining who he was and his background. So, we filmed from several angles- the first being a shot panning from Tony's shoes to his head. The next would be a mid-shot, before finally we would film a close-up of Tony at the end of the scene with him looking into the camera. We felt these would be effective shots as they help introduce Tony into the story.

SCENE 4

Our next section of filming consisted of a walking scene introducing the actors. We filmed this scene from several angles including an establishing shot, two mid shots and importantly three close-ups of the three characters. Mickey and DCI Bull are wearing suits and sunglasses- much like some of the characters in 'Reservoir Dogs'- whilst Tony is wearing casual clothes to distinguish himself from Mickey and Bull. This scene was inspired by the opening scene of the Quentin Tarantino film 'Reservoir Dogs'.

SCENE 5

Finally, after filming this scene we moved on to the last scene of our opening sequence. This scene was set 20 minutes after the 'Job' had taken place and it consisted of Mickey and Tony bumping into each other in a back alley and having a conversation about the events that had just taken place. We used a number of different shots during this scene- a mid shot, a close up and mid/long shots from different angles for the bulk of the conversation.