Initial Ideas for Opening Film.

In the first meeting we had as a group we decided that we would split up the responsibilities between the group I have been given the task of both Casting and Story narrative. We briefly spoke as a group as to what type of film we were going to create an opening to possibly a hooligan film, similar to Green street, The Firm or the Football Factories, etc. We chose to head towards this sort of genre of film because we felt it had an original and recognisable style. As well as previously analysing some other film openings I decided to have a look at two hooligan film openings to try and draw some inspiration to help decide what type of film we were going to create an opening for...

The Football Factories


I really like the way the film shows surveillance images, newspaper cuttings and similar short clips strung together with opening titles, it puts the audience in the position of a sort of inspector trying to decipher who the hooligans are, this led me to consider creating an opening for a film like this following the life of a detective who specialises in tracking down football hooligans.

Green Street Hooligans


The opening of the train station being dominated by the football fans who treat it as if they own it having no regard for other users of the trainline was a really good location, I liked the way the football fans really treated it as there home. They sung at the top of their voices kicked cans about and showed no respect for other users. The whole location was taken over by this group of individuals. This then comes to a clash of two groups, something that rarely happens and I feel that hooligans (or the more broad term of gangs) gives people a reason to fight and argue amongst each other. It creates a tension when people are seperated into two groups and whether or not it is moral to fight for nothing more than belonging to different groups of people, the notion that some people find it acceptable and do carry out fights because of this is not one that is impossible to imagine amongst modern audiences.