During the design, I have taken into account aspects from introductions to both short films and television introductions that we, as a group, like. For example, John mentioned the film ‘Snatch’, Danny mentioned the film ‘Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels’, and I have taken into account both the TV series ‘The Real Hustle’, and the opening sequence from the 2009 film ‘Bronson’ (among many others we have all discussed)
The following screenshot from ‘The Real Hustle’ shows the character obviously secluded from the background. The text then gives the characters name, and an indication to his ‘unique ability’.
The latter screenshot is taken from the trailer of ‘Bronson’. Whilst this doesn’t represent the effect we are going for, I found this colour scheme fascinating (Not only that, the remarkable history of the film which I love!).
Initially, you will come across below a stock image that was located on Google. The following images roughly resemble what we are trying to achieve, atmospherically.
The red image is certainly my favourite. As a group, we had the vision that the film would be edited to be black and white, but all shades/tones of ‘red’. Taking that into consideration, along with the Bronson screenshot, I feel this is almost perfect! The character is slightly enlarged, has several effects applied to it, whilst the font was carefully chosen, which I feel reflects the ‘Urban Thriller’ genre.
The stance of the character (It took me a while to find this, really), was carefully chosen. This is the similar approach to what we want to take, a soft of ‘action shot’. As discussed in our brief earlier, each character will be doing something productive (reading a newspaper, smoking, pointing run, drinking.. etc).
I have also included other screenshots that I had produced. Whilst I feel these give a similiar atmosphere to what we are aiming to achieve, I feel the red one is much more appropriate!
