One of our ideas for the children's film opening is a comedy spy film. A range of comedy spy films that we came up with in our group was Johnny English one and two, Alex Rider Storm-breaker, Inspector Gadget and the Spy Kid films. Within a spy film there is usually a typical bad guy, maybe wearing an eye patch over one eye, or a scar down his face. As we are making a children's film, if we had a bad guy and if he got hurt or injured, we would have to do it in a light or comical way. There is also usually a hero in a spy film, or a character that the viewer likes. Heroes in other comedy spy films include Alex Rider, Inspector Gadget or Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English.
We studied the opening credits to the popular spy film, Johnny English. It starts with a quick montage of him getting ready for work. Clips in the montage include him running on a treadmill and then falling off it, reading a book called 'Serious Spying' and then shows him trying on various clothes including the classic Sherlock Holmes hat as an over-exaggeration of a spy look. The next part of the credits are various long and mid shots of Johnny walking through what seems to be a government building and picking up a gun. He set's everything up on the gun, and then realises he didn't add a trigger. The sequence also includes various tracking shots of walking feet which we could include in our opening by using a tripod track dolly or a grip stabiliser.Without any dialogue, this opening sequence still has great humour and is very fun to watch along with a great title song performed by Robbie Williams. Throughout the whole opening sequence there are low opacity overlays of red and blue rectangles which keep flying in and out, these act as transitions.
To see the opening credits for the first Johnny English film, click here.
We got more information about the whole film on wikipedia.
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