Ideas for opening sequence

Narrative:

Based on two basketball enthusiasts. One player is extremely good; the captain of the team, gets all the girls, very popular. The other player; intelligent, kind, struggles with girls, but puts all his efforts into make the basketball team!

Somehow, the two teenagers have never seen eye to eye, but when an unfortunate event happens where Kurt ends up breaking his leg, he must make Jordan the next sensational player to lead the team to win in the CBB division 2 championships!

Opening: Alternative shots of the two boys shooting, introducing them without showing their faces. (show shots of their shoes, proper basketball trainers compared with dirty plimsoles. Official basketball uniform compared with short shorts, with a white vest top) Comparing their talents without showing faces.

Characters:
Two main characters:

• Jordan (bad basketball player)
• Kurt (good  basketball player)

Genre: 
Family comedy; PG-to appeal to families


Themes: 
Ambition, and dreams- to attract childrens attention

Mise-en-scene

• Props: Basketball- film is based around the sport
• Costumes: Trainers, proper basketball outfit for Kurt, for jordan; white vest top and short tight shorts. Geek glasses- contrasting clothes to show their charachter personalities 
• Lighting: Will be in a gym, so lighting will be constant throughout opening sequence and cuts- we would like to create a soft light as it is a family film, and is mainly happy, so we will add an extra ligt to give this effect- we dont want shadows. 

Camerawork

• Mainly static short shots (tripod)-introducing characters and adding titles, incorporated in with scenes.
• Tracking, when players are moving; running down the court.
• close ups- not on faces, but showing body language and making the audience feel connected with players. 
• Low angle and high angle on characters: showing who is more powerful.

Editing

• Adding titles in on final cut
• Adding non-diegetic sound
• Parallel editing, shot reverse shot
• Pace
• Special effects: this will be the titles fitting in with the mise-en-scene
• Soundtrack: we will create our own sound track to play in the opening sequence. This will hopefully fit in with the acting (squeaky shoes, bouncing balls, and hitting the rim of the net)