Influences | Final Task

We used multiple influences to drive our ideas for our opening title sequence. The first man influence was from the case of MI6 agent, Gareth Williams, who died in 2010. Gareth was found locked in a red sports bag, in his flat in Pimlico, London. The significance of this event is that no DNA was found around the bag, and in his bath tub to where the bag was, which marks a question to how he ended up padlocked into a bag and questions the idea to whether he killed himself. We took parts of this event and incorporated it into our coursework as we thought that creating a mystery is a very effective way to keep the audience hooked from the start. We will have a red bag advancing around London by different people (accusingly spy agents) passing it on. This goes along the idea of a spy agent/person being locked into a red holdall and being travelled around London and beyond.

Another influence we used was from a video called 'Move' on Vimeo (below shows). This short video shows a man travelling around the world, and to speed up time, the location is changing in the background every second. This is a effective technique as you can speed up time and she every location the man went to, while making the video look unique and creative. To develop this idea for our opening film titles, we hope to have the red bag being exchanged quickly from courier to courier while having the location changing in the background. This is very appropriate for our opening as we want to show that the bag is always on the move and being passed between multiple people throughout the day. 

The opening titles to Dexter was also another main influence that we used in our coursework. The titles is based around the main character (a serial killer) waking up and undergoing his morning routine. His normal routine consists of brushing his teeth and making the breakfast, for example. The uniqueness of this is that each image of his routine is made to look sickening and jaunting. With metaphoric references to blood and murder, as an audience we are naturally curious to watch on; even though this type of daily routine is innocent as possible. We are taking moments from this titles and developing it into our coursework by setting the start of the titles in a butchers. Each image in the butchers will show a butcher cutting meat and then a person walking out with the red holdall. This will therefore act as an enigma to whats inside the bag; meat or a body?