Research into Filming and Editing

Sound

From my previous research into film openings, I made several notes about different aspects of the opening, In the aspect of sound, I noticed that most sounds that are made are digetict and occur within the opening, This is mainly because the producers wanted to create a sense of realism and used  physical props and environments to maintain the effect of realism. For our opening we don't have the correct resources or any to develop this same effect, Therefore we have to use non-digetict sounds to keep the effect the same. For this our software programme Final Cut Pro X has many Royalty-Free music and sound effects for us to use for our opening.

Lighting

Mostly for our opening, we knew we wanted a majority of our opening to occur outside, although our location is in the open, it did grant us the light we needed. Light effects are the most major importance during scenes that occur indoors, we wanted to create a scene where it takes place in a secret location, we want to use a small room with a table with a single light that can give the effect that the whatever is on the contents is regarded as  highly top-secret.

Screen Effects

We have mentioned that we wanted to make our opening scene in black and white, One of the last spy films to take place in black and white was The Manchurian Candidate, The film was produced in 1962, one year before Dr.No was released, The entire film is shot in black and white, it is about a prisoner of war who is brainwashed into becoming an Assassin for the Communist party. The film itself is rather good despite being rather old and in black and white, meaning it can still do good. Another important film to note that is in black and white is Schlinders list, One of the highest rated films of all time, it gained credibility for it being in black and white and used it signify the time period and later in the film, the colour red.