Influences

A Matter Of Life And Death

In my opening scene me and my group wanted to use archive footage however this would be copyright and plagiarism so we instead looked into other ways of getting across the idea we wanted to portray in a way we would have the ability to do so considering the equipment and time we have to prepare our opening scene. From looking at this scene in 'A Matter Of Life And Death' we thought that we would be able to construct our own radio scene within our opening scene by using the video above as a foundation.

We came up with the idea of having no conversation in the opening scene but showing a commanding officer driving to the character, Nancy's house and delivering the news, we thought that we could have the recorded radio of her husband trying to contact the control office over the top so that we hadn't actually explained the situation to the audience but it would instead be obvious to them as to what was going on. We thought this might be quite captivating and enticing for the audience as they would be watching in order to work out what was going on within the film and as you don't often see this being done.