We've reviewed our initial idea, and after the screening of our rough cut we've had to make a lot of changes to our opening sequence. There was far too much plot, so it seemed more like a trailer than an opening sequence. Some of our shots worked well, especially the ones which played around with shadows and silhouettes, so we're going to focus on these. However some shots, especially the running didn't work at all as the camera couldn't take that much movement. These will have to be cut out completely which alters the entire pace of our opening sequence to something that is much slower. This has lead us to reconsider the name of our thriller, as the title "Rush" does not seem to fit with the slow pace. Our chosen font also seems out of place now as it looks quite distorted and violent, and the violence has been removed from our film so that will also need changing to something that maybe looks more calm or unassuming. Our remaining footage falls very short of two minutes, so we're going to need to do some more filming, and we're going to use the opening of Se7en as inspiration, creating a mystery and confusion with close ups of different objects and more work with shadows. Lastly, we've been looking at the colour of our shots and have been changing saturation to reduce the colour so overall the shots are quite grey, with vignettes to make them darker.
After the filming and editing is finished, and we've got the titles and credits sorted, we'll need to make a start on the soundtrack, which will most likely have to also be changed from our initial ideas to fit with the new pace and look of our opening sequence.