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I have used a wide range of shots in my storyboard: extreme close up, long shot, close up, canted angle, tracking shots, panning shot, 360° shot, over the shoulder shot and high angle shots. I have added a range of shots because this will mean that it will be more visually interesting for my target audience of young adults and also from the thriller film openings that i have looked at, they are made up of a variety of interesting shots.

I have drawn a storyboard to plan what I am going to film, I have then put it onto Final Cut Express to make a digital storyboard and to place the titles over the pictures so I know where the titles are going to be placed over each shot that I will film. Also this means that I can have the titles done in advance and only have to slightly modify their positioning and perhaps size in relation to the shots that the titles are over.

Titles

Distributor presents 20th Century Fox

Production Company Fox Searchlight Pictures

Film title working title Sanity

Actors:
Jack O' Connell 
Dakota Blue Richards 
Jamie Bell 
Christian Bale

Casting by Mary Vernieu

Costume designer Michael Kaplan

Music by Clint Mansell

Edited by Thelma Schoomaker

Director of photography: Robert Richardson

Production designer: Alex McDowell

Executive producers: Arnon Milchan, Brad Fischer

Producers: Ross Grayson Bell, Christian Colson

Written by Jon S. Baird
Directed by Alicia Lee

For the actors, I have chose Jack O'Connell because he is a relatively well known british actor who as previously been in Skins, so he has a background of being in quite gritty projects, also he stared in the thriller, Eden Lake. Dakota Blue Richards is also a british actress who starred in a thriller called The Fold and so it could be realistic for her to also star in a psychological thriller. Also I chose Jamie Bell because he starred in Filth, a slightly psychological thriller that also has links with my film. Finally, the most well known actor that I have chosen is Christian Bale, I have chose him because he has been in The Prestige which i have taken inspiration from for my opening, but he has also starred in other psychological thrillers like The Machinist and American Psycho.

I have chosen these titles after researching the titles of the people who worked on the films that I looked at for the production company and distributor. For the casting director, I chose Mary Vernieu as she cast for Black Swan, also I chose Clint Mansell for the music as he too worked on Black Swan and the music in the film is good at building tension for the audience, he also worked on the film Filth which also includes hallucinations and so is suitable for my genre and storyline. Michael Kaplan worked on Fight Club as the costume designer and so I decided to include him in my titles as the clothing in both Fight Club and the other films he has worked on gives verisimilitude to the film. I decided to have Thelma Schoomaker as the editor as she has worked on Shutter Island and Bringing out the dead and so is a suitable editor for a thriller. From Shutter Island, I also chose Robert Richardson as the director of photography as the shots are very atmospheric. Alex McDowell was chosen as the production designer as he has worked on Fight Club among other films from Watchmen to Charlie and the Chocolate factory. For the executive producers, I chose Arnon Milchan who was an executive producer for Fight Club and Brad Fischer who was the executive producer for Black Swan and Shutter Island, in addition, for the producers, I chose Ross Grayson Bell who was a producer for Fight Club and Christian Colson who was a producer for Trance. I chose these producers as my film is similar to the ones they have produced and so it would be more likely for them to produce a film like mine compared to a romantic comedy for example. Finally, I chose Jon S. Baird as the writer because he was the writer for Filth, but also looking at the other films that he has written, the style seems to be quite realistic and gritty which I think would match my film well, but also this style, i believe would be more relatable to my target audience of young adults.

In terms of the order of the order of my titles, I have used the films that I have previously researched to get a good understanding of the typical order of titles. 

Skyfall	Twilight:breaking dawn part 2
Albert Broccoli’s EON Productions LTD presents	Summit Entertainment presents
Daniel Craig	Temple Hill production in association with Sunswept entertainment
Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007	BREAKING DAWN PART 2
SKYFALL	Main actors
Main actors	Casting by
Co-producers	Costume designer
Script supervisor	Music supervisor
Make-up, hair, wardrobe, publicity and  marketing	Music by
Art director, set decorator, property master, construction manager, still photographer, visual effects producer	Visual effects
Production, location, post production supervisor	Editors
Visual effects and miniature effects	Production designers
Production managers, assistant director	Director of photography
Casting by	Co-producer
Special effects, miniature effects and stunt coordinator	Executive producers
Second unit director	Produced by
Costume designer	Produced by
Editors	Based on the novel
Director of photography	Screenplay by
Production designer	Directed by
Music by
Executive producer
Written by
Produced by
Directed by

By looking over my research, I have found that Skyfall had some unique titles that are not usually featured in the opening of a film, like publicity, marketing, and stunts, however, this may be necessary as it is such a big budget film. I have found that the Twilight title order is more typical of a film in terms of the roles featured, however I have found that these films have commonalities, for example the director is last, the producers are also very near the end and the main actors are shown straight after the  film title and so this is the order I will follow for my opening.