Starting today, my group and I will be working on the foundation portfolio. We wanted to do something in the mystery/crime/thriller genre. It felt a little basic but we want to include meaningful representation in our opening.
Some conventions of the crime genre that I have researched are include: An intelligent protagonist who is determined to solve the case, the sidekick of the protagonist who is smart/daft, the crime is related to the protagonist in some way.
We definitely want the protagonist to be a woman of color to show representation. The crime that she is trying to solve will be the disappearance of her mother. As for the sidekick, they most likely will not be introduced in the opening.
I researched techniques to the opening scenes of movies. I was thinking about using a Red Herring or a MacGuffin that will carry on later in the film. I am not sure how exactly we can incorporate it though.
One of the techniques in the video below opens a movie with The Crime. This crime is central to the plot and the protagonist will spend of the rest of the movie trying to solve it.
https://youtu.be/LdEgQGdoFQA?si=qm7QXghJM4VocjQW
An interrogation scene is also something we want to have, using good cop, bad cop. It might not be an interrogation but more of a questioning of family members and/or witnesses.
This is just the start of the our research on movie openings.
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